Engineering Change Coordinator - Leeds, AL

Hubbell Incorporated; Leeds (AL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hubbell Incorporated is seeking an Engineering Change Coordinator in Leeds, AL to drive ECs for ETO orders, coordinating between Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials, Quality and Commercial teams. The role focuses on maintaining visibility, ensuring timely releases, and minimizing production disruption.

The position requires an associate degree or equivalent manufacturing experience, strong Excel skills, and the ability to read engineering drawings and BOMs.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent relevant manufacturing experience.
• Experience in an engineered-product or manufacturing environment.
• Strong ability to coordinate multiple priorities and follow actions through completion.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings, bills of material, and product specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day coordination and tracking of ECs for ETO orders.
• Maintain visibility of open ECs, priorities, owners, required actions, and completion status.
• Facilitate EC review and disposition with Engineering, Operations, Materials, Quality, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure changes progress from initial request through engineering release and manufacturing implementation.
• Escalate ECs that threaten customer delivery dates, manufacturing schedules, or material availability.
• Review active ETO orders for engineering changes or documentation issues that could prevent execution.
• Coordinate resolution of drawing, BOM, specification, configuration, and manufacturing-documentation discrepancies.
• Work with Planning and Operations to ensure released engineering information is available when required to support manufacturing.
• Identify changes affecting work already released to production and coordinate appropriate disposition.
• Determine which open orders, components, drawings, BOMs, or production activities may be affected by a proposed engineering change.
• Coordinate material disposition when changes create obsolete, excess, rework, or replacement material requirements.
• Ensure downstream stakeholders understand when a change becomes effective.
• Coordinate implementation timing to minimize disruption to production and customer delivery.
• Serve as the communication link between operations and the ETO execution team.
• Clearly document decisions, owners, required actions, and due dates.
• Follow up on overdue activities and unresolved dependencies.
• Communicate high-risk changes to appropriate leadership.
• Develop and maintain EC tracking and reporting.
• Monitor recurring causes of engineering changes and identify opportunities to reduce preventable changes.
• Support improvements to ETO engineering-release and change-management processes.
• Track metrics such as open ECs, aging, overdue actions, implementation cycle time, and ECs affecting production.
• Help improve engineering-release quality and first-time-right execution.

Skills

Coordination

Communication

Excel

Engineering drawings

Project tracking

Education

Associate's degree

Tools

SAP

CAD

Job description

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Engineering Change Coordinator - Leeds, AL

The Engineering Change Coordinator is responsible for coordinating and driving engineering changes for Engineer-to-Order products from identification through implementation and closure. The role ensures changes to drawings, bills of material, routings, specifications, and associated manufacturing information are communicated, prioritized, released, and implemented in a controlled manner.

The EC Coordinator acts as a central point of coordination between Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials/Planning, Quality, and Commercial teams, helping ensure engineering changes align with customer commitments, production schedules, material availability, and product quality.

A Day In The Life

• Own the day-to-day coordination and tracking of Engineering Changes for ETO orders.
• Maintain visibility of open ECs, priorities, responsible owners, required actions, and completion status.
• Facilitate EC review and disposition with Engineering, Operations, Materials, Quality, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure changes progress from initial request through engineering release and manufacturing implementation.
• Escalate ECs that threaten customer delivery dates, manufacturing schedules, or material availability.

ETO Order Support

• Review active ETO orders for engineering changes or documentation issues that could prevent execution.
• Coordinate resolution of drawing, BOM, specification, configuration, and manufacturing-documentation discrepancies.
• Work with Planning and Operations to ensure released engineering information is available when required to support manufacturing.
• Identify changes affecting work already released to production and coordinate appropriate disposition.

Change Impact Management

• Determine which open orders, components, drawings, BOMs, or production activities may be affected by a proposed engineering change.
• Coordinate material disposition when changes create obsolete, excess, rework, or replacement material requirements.
• Ensure downstream stakeholders understand when a change becomes effective.
• Coordinate implementation timing to minimize disruption to production and customer delivery.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Serve as the communication link between operations and the ETO execution team.
• Clearly document decisions, owners, required actions, and due dates.
• Follow up on overdue activities and unresolved dependencies.
• Communicate high-risk changes to appropriate leadership.

Process & Performance Improvement

• Develop and maintain EC tracking and reporting.
• Monitor recurring causes of engineering changes and identify opportunities to reduce preventable changes.
• Support improvements to ETO engineering-release and change-management processes.
• Track metrics such as open ECs, aging, overdue actions, implementation cycle time, and ECs affecting production.
• Help improve engineering-release quality and first-time-right execution.

Measures of Success

• Reduction in aging/open Engineering Changes
• Engineering Change cycle time
• Percentage of EC actions completed by required date
• Number of production interruptions attributable to unresolved engineering changes
• On-time engineering release supporting ETO production
• Improvement in first-time-right BOM and drawing releases

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Associate's degree or equivalent relevant manufacturing experience.
• Experience working in an engineered-product or manufacturing environment.
• Strong ability to coordinate multiple priorities and follow actions through completion.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings, bills of material, and product specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and standard Microsoft Office applications.

Preferred

• Experience in an Engineer-to-Order or Configure-to-Order manufacturing environment.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP.
• Experience with engineering change control, BOM management, document control, or product lifecycle management processes.
• Familiarity with CAD drawings and engineering documentation.
• Experience supporting electrical, mechanical, or utility-industry products.

Hubbell Incorporated

Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.

The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses.

We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.

Hubbell Utility Solutions

Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications. HUS provides the critical components that allow the grid to reliably transmit and distribute energy, as well as the communications and controls technologies to make the grid smarter and more flexible.

Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.