Senior Design Engineer

Eaton; Glenolden (Delaware County); On-site; USD 86,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Aerospace in Glenolden, PA is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to lead lubrication system condition monitoring and fluid accessories product design and evaluation.

The role emphasizes layout, modeling, drawing creation, and documentation using CAD tools, with Phase-Gate product development and cross-functional collaboration across mechanical and electrical lines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Electrical / Mechanical / Aerospace)
• Minimum five years of demonstrated experience in mechanical design, CAD modeling, drawing creation, and GD&T.
• This position requires ITAR compliance; U.S. person status is required and relocation benefits are not offered.

Responsibilities

• Design work and project engineering support for sustaining products and new product development.
• Create layouts, models, and drawings using CAD (CATIA V5, Creo, AutoCAD) and manage release through Enovia.
• Perform analyses and trade studies to substantiate design decisions; ensure GD&T per industrial standards.
• Develop plans for design verification and validation testing.
• Support sales and marketing in proposals and responses to customer inquiries.

Skills

CAD modeling

GD&T

Mechanical design

Electromechanical design

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

CATIA V5

Creo

AutoCAD

Enovia

Job description

Eaton’s IS AER FED division is currently seeking a Senior Design Engineer.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $86000 - $126000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You’ll Do:

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

Eaton Aerospace in Glenolden, PA has an opening for a Senior Design Engineer for lubrication system condition monitoring and fluid accessories product design and evaluation. The primary function of the position is design work and project engineering support for both sustaining products and new product development.

Product designs are evaluated with layouts, modeling, drawing creation using CAD (CATIA V5, Creo, AutoCAD) and the product release configuration control processes (Enovia). The design engineering position will primarily focus on product design layout, modeling, and drawing creation for machining, casting, assembly, dimensional tolerance, marking, and GD&T per industrial standards. Design decisions will be substantiated with appropriate analysis, trade studies, and legacy product similarities. Phase-Gate product development strategies are utilized for the concept development, design, validation, production, and delivery stages of new product implementation.

They will support product design activities of mechanical and electrical product lines / focus areas by providing sustaining product support, pursuing alternative design approaches and processes when needed, while taking market trends and best practices into account.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provides engineering solutions that meet customer performance requirements, interface details, reliability, cost and schedule requirements. Works with customers to define explicit non-ambiguous requirements. Provides technical direction for assigned projects from initial concept phase to product delivery.
• Understands mechanical, electric-mechanical systems and robust design methods. Responsible for concept layout, modeling, detailing, release and change management of drawings in configuration control system. Ensures compliance to quality system requirements.
• Establishes technical requirements for fabricated and procured components. Selects materials, finishes, processes, dimensions and GD&T to meet the design intent. Works closely with manufacturing and quality engineers, customers, and suppliers. Visits suppliers and customers as required.
• Performs mechanical design tasks for casted, machined, and plastic/metallic additively manufactured components. Works with manufacturing and external suppliers to optimize design decisions. Designs electromechanical sensor packaging with CAD component modeling, assembly and BOM structure creation, and production drawings.
• Works with other Eaton teams to perform structural static and dynamic analyses, thermal and fluid dynamics analyses, and other engineering analysis methods to verify compliance.
• Manages and releases drawings, models and documentation through Eaton’s product lifecycle management system.
• Develops plans for design verification and validation testing for design compliance. Provides support in the testing environment.
• Implements product improvement and cost reduction initiatives by evaluating engineering change requests.
• Supports sales and marketing in generation of proposals and responses to customer inquiries.
• Designs fluid flow products and fixturing with substantiation of design choices based on fluid mechanics concepts.
• Designs, builds, and tests engineering prototypes for proposals and internal research and development projects.

Qualifications:

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Electrical / Mechanical / Aerospace)
• Minimum five years of demonstrated experience in mechanical design, CAD modeling, drawing creation, and GD&T.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.”
• Candidate will not need sponsorship now or in the future.
• This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates that currently reside within 50 miles of the Glenolden, PA facility will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Aerospace / Automotive / Electronics/ Medical device industry experience preferred. Preferred electric-mechanical and PCB design experience.
• Demonstrated experience in seal design, material assessment and design for manufacturability.
• Experience with manufacturing processes, product testing, stress analysis, magnetic properties, fluid dynamics, and thermal analysis preferred.

Skills:

POSITION CRITERIA:

• Communicates effectively with customers, suppliers, and internal peers.
• Well organized and detail oriented in preparation for design approvals
• Capable of developing conclusions from analyses and applying results to support project team’s activities.
• Demonstrates ability to clearly explain and discuss drawings, engineering analyses, and manufacturing processes
• Up to 10% Travel

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