Associate Engineer - Product Stewardship

Eaton Corporation; Hadapsar; On-site; INR 450,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in India is seeking an Associate Engineer for Product Stewardship and sustainability. The role supports NPI and regulatory compliance across RoHS, REACH, ErP, and other global standards, helping address customer requests and regulatory challenges.

You will collaborate with engineering, SCM, and quality teams, maintain material declarations, perform substance screening, and contribute to continuous process improvements while delivering regular status reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental science or related engineering field.
• 0–3 years experience in sustainability, product, or tech development.
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals and measurements.
• Familiar with sustainability regulations (WEEE, EPR, RoHS, TSCA, CP65, POP, ODS).
• Experience with eco-design requirements (ErP) and collaboration with product teams.

Responsibilities

• Execute product compliance assessments across RoHS, REACH, ODS, and other global regs.
• Support end-to-end compliance management processes.
• Coordinate with engineering, SCM, and quality teams.
• Collect and maintain material declarations through supplier campaigns.
• Perform substance screening and threshold analysis.
• Maintain compliance records in PLM and other tools.
• Prepare customer compliance declarations and regulatory responses.
• Support Product Stewardship in NPI focusing on Ecodesign, EPR and compliance.
• Evaluate compliance per eco-design regulations (e.g., ErP).
• Communicate requirements to Eaton teams; liaise for program activities.
• Provide regular reports on development and support activities.
• Interact with customers/stakeholders on sustainability trends.
• Contribute to process improvements for productivity.
• Study upcoming regulatory requirements and share findings.

Skills

Engineering basics

Sustainability regs

Eco-design regs

Electrical concepts

Project management

MS Office

Excel Macros

Python

Power BI

Power Automate

Communication skills

Verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Environmental science or Chemical/Mechanical/Electronics/Electrical engineering

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

What you’ll do:

Eaton’s Product Stewardship & Sustinability CoE is looking for highly motivated individuals who is passionate about environmental accounting and has strong inclination towards Sustainability domain. The Associate Engineer will be supporting New Product Introduction and compliance (climate and environmental regulations) for Eaton’s ARS Electrical Business. This work will help business to address customer requests, address regulatory challenges and create sustainability value propositions to gain additional business opportunities.

Job Descritpion:

• Responsible for executing product compliance assessment across global regulations like RoHS, REACH, ODS, POP, CP-65, TSCA etc.
• Support the execution of end to end Compliance Management process-
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders (Engineering, SCM, Quality etc)
• Collect, validate, and maintain material declarations through supplier campaigns, supplier connects, portfolio analysis.
• Perform substance screening and threshold analysis
• Maintain compliance records in internal PLM / compliance tools
• Follow defined workflows and meet compliance timelines
• Support preparation of customer compliance declarations and regulatory responses
• Support deployment the Product Stewardship Workpackage in New Product Introduction focusing on Ecodesign, EPR and Product Stewardship Compliance
• Evaluate compliance in accordance with applicable eco-design related regulations (e.g. EU-ErP Directive)
• Understand customer requirements and communicate to other Eaton teams, and act as the liaison for program activities as appropriate.
• Provide regular reports on development and support activities.
• Interact with key customers/stakeholders in understanding current & upcoming sustainability trends and their relevance to our products.
• Contribute to continuous process improvements to increase productivity and efficiency.
• Demonstrate curiosity and energy in studying upcoming regulatory requirements and communicates the findings to the team.

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Enviornmental science or Chemical/Mechanical/ Electronics /Electricals engineering

1. Bachelors with 0-3 years’ experience in the areas of Sustainability domain, Product or technology development for Industrial, Electrical/Electronic or Chemical products or process.

Skills:

1. Strong understanding on basics of engineering, science, and arithmetic concepts – material, weight, volume, density, mass, units, and measurement methods, etc.

2. Has good knowledge & working experience on sustinability regulations - WEEE, EPR, REACH, RoHS, CP65, TSCA, POP, ODS etc

3. Understands requirements related to eco-design regulations (like ErP regulations) and work with product teams to ensure compliance while releasing new products.

1. Need to have sound fundamental engineering knowledge and electrical concepts.
2. Experience in supporting/leading projects with multiple stakeholders in matrix organization and strong project management experience is required.Energetic and willing to learn new areas and collaborating with local / global suppliers
3. Comfortable dealing with data and Microsoft office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
4. Hands on experience on digital tools such as- Excel Macros, Python, PowerBi/Power Automate has added advantage
5. Good verbal and written communication skills including the ability to effectively explain technical concepts.

1. Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to effectively explain technical concepts.

1. Good judgment, time management, and decision-making skills

3.Problem Solving Skills, Analytical Thinking