Lead Hardware Documentation Engineer: Product Development

Eaton Corporation; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in Dubai seeks an experienced Hardware & Technical Documentation Engineer to join our Middle East Engineering Team. You will own end-to-end documentation lifecycle for products, developing manuals, installation guides, and specifications.

The role also supports hardware development activities, collaborates across functions, ensures IEC/UL compliance, and leads continuous improvement in documentation quality and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering or related discipline.
• 4+ years in electronic hardware design and development.
• Experience in industrial electronics, embedded hardware, control systems or Life Safety products.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation for engineering products.
• Experience supporting product certification, validation and industrialization activities.
• Analog and digital electronics design; PCB design and manufacturing processes.
• Embedded microprocessor/microcontroller based systems and EMC/EMI design & testing.
• Hardware debugging and laboratory validation techniques; PLM systems such as Enovia.
• ERP systems such as SAP; familiarity with technical illustration tools (Adobe suite).
• Knowledge of IEC/UL standards and DFSS methodology.
• Strong technical writing and English communication.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end creation, maintenance, approval, release, and lifecycle management of technical documentation.
• Develop user manuals, installation guides, operation manuals, maintenance procedures, and specs.
• Create and manage engineering drawings, labels, packaging, and customer-facing docs.
• Maintain documents including schematics, BOMs, design reports, test procedures, and test records.
• Ensure compliance with Eaton standards, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.
• Maintain revision control and traceability within PLM systems and governance processes.
• Coordinate documentation across Engineering, Product Mgmt, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and partners.
• Support product certification and regulatory approvals with required technical files.
• Lead documentation quality improvement and standardization initiatives.
• Support engineering change management with timely updates to documentation.
• Act as SME for documentation tools, methodologies, and content management.
• Hardware Engineering Support: assist with hardware design, validation, and PCBA for Life Safety and Power Management products.
• Participate in requirements, schematic design, component selection, testing, and validation.
• Assist with EMC/EMI testing, product qualification, and certification activities.
• Collaborate to ensure outputs are documented and released per established processes.

Skills

Electronic hardware design

Embedded systems

PCB design

EMC/EMI testing

Technical writing

Regulatory compliance

Documentation governance

PLM (Enovia)

SAP

Altium

Cadence

Mentor Graphics

SolidWorks Composer

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

DFSS

IEC/UL standards

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Enovia

SAP

Altium

Cadence

Mentor Graphics

SolidWorks Composer

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Job description

Eaton Corporation in Dubai seeks an experienced Hardware & Technical Documentation Engineer to join our Middle East Engineering Team. You will own end-to-end documentation lifecycle for products, developing manuals, installation guides, and specifications.

The role also supports hardware development activities, collaborates across functions, ensures IEC/UL compliance, and leads continuous improvement in documentation quality and governance.