Aerospace Innovation & Retrofit Engineer

Eaton; Singapore; On-site; SGD 45,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton is seeking an Aerospace Engineer to develop retrofit and upgrade solutions for existing products, ensuring compliance with airworthiness regulations and OEM requirements. You will assess feasibility, create designs, and document analyses for lifecycle improvements.

You will collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and MRO partners to ensure solutions are practical and field-ready while addressing obsolescence and performance improvements in the aerospace portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aircraft Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Fresh graduate or up to 2 years of relevant experience.
• Internship, capstone project, university research, or aerospace-related project experience is advantageous.
• Familiarity with CAD tools such as CATIA, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, NX, or similar software is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop engineering solutions to enhance performance, reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle value of existing aerospace products.
• Support retrofit, modification, and upgrade initiatives through technical assessments, design development, certification compliance, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring solutions meet customer requirements, airworthiness regulations, and business objectives.
• Develop retrofit, modification, and upgrade solutions for existing aerospace components and systems to address obsolescence, reliability issues, performance improvements, regulatory changes, and customer-driven enhancements.
• Perform engineering assessments on in service components to determine upgrade feasibility, technical impact, certification requirements, and lifecycle benefits.
• Generate and review engineering designs, analyses, and substantiation data to support retrofit and upgrade solutions, including mechanical, electrical, materials, and system-level considerations.
• Ensure all retrofit and modification solutions comply with applicable airworthiness regulations (e.g. FAA, EASA, CAAS), OEM requirements, and industry standards.
• Identify opportunities to introduce new technologies, materials, digital tools, or design approaches to enhance retrofit effectiveness, reduce installation time, and improve long term maintainability.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and MRO partners to ensure retrofit solutions are practical, producible, and supportable in the field.

Skills

Engineering design principles

MS Office proficiency

Documentation preparation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

CATIA

SolidWorks

AutoCAD

NX

Job description

Eaton is seeking an Aerospace Engineer to develop retrofit and upgrade solutions for existing products, ensuring compliance with airworthiness regulations and OEM requirements. You will assess feasibility, create designs, and document analyses for lifecycle improvements.

You will collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and MRO partners to ensure solutions are practical and field-ready while addressing obsolescence and performance improvements in the aerospace portfolio.