Senior Mechanical Project Engineer - New Product Development

What You’ll Do

Eaton’s Power Reliability Division is currently seeking a Senior Mechanical Project Engineer – New Product Development to join our team. This position is based at our South Milwaukee, WI manufacturing facility. Join us in a high-impact engineering role where your ideas shape the future of electrical power systems. As part of our team, you’ll design and develop next-generation switchgear and sub-systems—bringing creativity and technical excellence together to solve real-world challenges. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies including polymers, vacuum interrupters, electromagnetic actuators, linear drive mechanisms, castings, and precision metal fabrications. You’ll contribute to projects from concept to production, influencing everything from system architecture to detailed component design.

This role is based at Eaton’s local footprint in Southeastern Wisconsin, which includes five Eaton facilities and more than 1900 employees. Eaton’s local presence enables our employees with state-of-the-art laboratories and access to manufacturing, all while providing ample opportunities for development and career growth within the region.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor degree in Engineering from an accredited institution
• Minimum of five years of engineering experience
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.
• Preferred Qualifications: Two or more years of experience within the high voltage or medium voltage Switchgear domain with experience in design and development of system architecture, component specifications of medium voltage Switchgear systems.
• Minimum of two years of experience working on large-scale design engineering projects.
• Experience in model-based design and simulation techniques for various aspects of system design including thermal management, dielectric, advanced mechanical systems and reliability.
• Understanding of various aspects of switchgear systems and impact to the overall performance, familiarity of and application of available technologies, ability to develop trade-off analyses to enable realization of designs that meet performance requirements and cost objective solutions.