Sustaining Senior Product Engineer

About the role

Eaton’s Global Energy Infrastructure Solutions (GEIS) division is currently seeking a Sustaining Senior Product Engineer to join the team. This is a hybrid role based at the Syracuse, NY location.

Responsibilities

• Provide continuous product development and sustaining engineering support to ensure the manufacturability, safety, quality, and marketability of Eaton Crouse Hinds products.
• Support hazardous and ordinary location electrical products, including luminaires, power distribution and control systems, enclosures, commercial and industrial fittings, cable tray systems, and related components.
• Independently lead complex sustaining projects and initiatives, creating, maintaining, and updating engineering documentation such as CAD drawings and models, technical specifications, bills of material (BOMs), engineering change orders (ECOs), work instructions, and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate closely with manufacturing, production, sourcing, marketing, test lab, and quality teams across multiple manufacturing sites and office locations to ensure product continuity, compliance, quality, and manufacturability.
• Exercise sound engineering judgment when addressing product and process issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and recommend effective solutions aligned with preferred manufacturing methods and processes.
• Operate with advanced knowledge of engineering processes, manufacturing techniques, quality systems, and information systems, and operate with broad latitude in decision making and independent execution.
• Apply advanced product design principles, engineered material selection, design to cost analysis, project management, cross-functional team collaboration, technical report writing, computer-assisted design (CAD), and proficiency with standard PC-based spreadsheet and word processing tools.

Qualifications

• Required (Basic): Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline from an accredited institution
• Minimum 3 years of related engineering experience
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Eaton products knowledge
• Knowledge of Manufacturing processes and Quality systems
• Proficiency with Engineering software (Solid Works and AutoCAD preferred)
• Proficiency with Product Data Management systems (preferably SAP, Enovia)
• Project Management experience