Engineer-VAVE

Eaton Corporation; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in Pune, India is seeking an experienced design engineer for cost-out projects in Low Voltage Switchgear. You will work on contactors, switch disconnectors, and breakers, coordinating with global teams through design, testing, and implementation phases.

You will ensure compliance with IEC/UL/CSA/NEMA, perform sizing and testing, and modify products via Change Management to meet market and regulatory needs. Proficiency with UG‑NX/SolidWorks and PLM tools is expected.

Qualifications

• BE/M.Tech in Mechanical or Electrical engineering is required.
• 3–6 years of product design experience in switchgear or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost-out projects for Low Voltage Switchgear products (Contactor, Switch Disconnector, MPCB, Push buttons).
• Collaborate with global stakeholders on idea generation, design, testing and implementation.
• Ensure compliance with IEC, UL, CSA, NEMA and other standards.
• Perform system/component sizing, design, simulation and testing for LV switchgear.
• Modify products through Change Management to meet customer and regulatory needs.
• Create 2D drawings and 3D models in UG‑NX or SolidWorks; support PLM ENOVIA and SAP workflows.

Skills

Cost-out

Team collaboration

Global/global stakeholders

Industrial design

GD&T

Mechanical design

Plastic materials

Test and validation

Education

BE/M.Tech – Mechanical or Electrical

Tools

UG-NX

SolidWorks

Enovia

SAP

Job description

What you’ll do

• Work on cost‑out projects for Low Voltage Switchgear products: Contactor / Switch Disconnector / Motor Protection Circuit Breaker / Push buttons.
• Work with global stakeholders for project execution through idea generation, design, testing and implementation phase.
• Ensure product compliance to global design standards like IEC, UL, CSA, NEMA or any other compliance standard.
• Complete system / component sizing, designing, simulation and testing activities to meet Low Voltage Switchgear requirements.
• Modify existing products to support customer, manufacturing, applicable regulatory and industry standard, and market requirements through Change Management process.

Qualifications

• BE/M.Tech – Mechanical Engineering/Electrical Engineering.
• 3‑6 years product design experience.

Skills

• Experience in switchgear industry having worked on NTI/NPI/Sustaining projects for Contactor, Switch Disconnector, Motor Protection Circuit Breaker or similar products. VAVE projects advantage.
• Team player, good communication skills, ability to work in global and virtual environment.
• Should have worked on cost‑out/VAVE projects for Contactors, Switch Disconnector, Breakers etc or similar products.
• Experience in current path design, mechanism design and arc quenching principles.
• Knowledge of plastic materials, their use based on properties and requirement. GD&T principles and clearance & creepage calculations.
• Experience of different manufacturing processes pertaining to contacts and plastic material (bending, riveting, welding, brazing, injection molding).
• Knowledge of low voltage switchgear standards in accordance to IEC, UL, CSA, CCC codes to develop test plans.
• Experience in execution of tests for EN60947 / UL60947 (temperature rise, short circuit, make/break, sequence tests etc.).
• Assess test results, perform root cause analysis through test findings/failures and take corrective/preventive actions.
• Responsible for design engineering analysis on current path, mechanism, spring, bimetals, housing, actuator circuit, arc chamber, coils etc.
• Review reliability predictions, conversant with Design Failure Modes and Effects analysis (DFMEA) and read structural, thermal, CFD, MBD results.
• Complete design (2D drawings / 3D models) in UG‑NX or SolidWorks.
• Knowledge on PLM systems (Enovia, SAP) desirable.
• Should have an innovation mindset.