Job Description
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Eaton's North American Sales division is currently seeking a Project Engineer. This is a hybrid role that will be based in our Dallas, Texas facility. If living outside of a 50-mile radius relocation assistance will be available within the United States..
What you'll do:
Eaton's North American Sales Organization is currently seeking a senior Project Engineer. This position will be strategically based across the Gulf region of the United States and supporting customers in Eaton's Electrical Team. This position supports order management through technical ownership of the order and creates a positive customer experience through a proactive approach to project support and issue resolution. This position leverages centralized resources to manage documentation and resolve issues and builds relationships across customers and Eaton facilities to deliver a successful project. This position works independently on daily tasks and collaborates with the project and sales teams.
In this function you will:
Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external customers for assigned projects
Review and interpret contract drawings and specifications ensuring technical accuracy
Manage technical changes to the bill of material
Coordinate and interpret engineered-to-order drawings
Leverage centralized resources to create and manage project documentation
Provide technical support and follow through to drive all warranty issues to closure
Act as the technical liaison between customers, sales, and factories to efficiently carry out technical order configuration, documentation, and warranty resolutions.
Serve as the customer's advocate by relaying the appropriate level of urgency to peer contacts in Eaton's manufacturing facilities and escalating issues as required to management
Pursue continuous learning of products and applications related to engineered products
Collaborates with the Project Management Team including Project Managers, Sales Engineers, Project Coordinators, other Project Engineers, and the Documentation Team
Lead verbal or written communication with internal and external stakeholders to address technical scope and design concerns
Provide guidance to less senior engineers with relationship to technical and commercial execution of job duties
Qualifications:
Required (Basic) Qualifications:
•Associate's degree from an accredited institution
•Minimum 2 years of work experience within the electrical industry
•Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
Preferred Qualifications:
•Associate's degree in Engineering or another technical field
•Possess or working toward a bachelor's degree
•Electrical industry expertise and product knowledge
•Prior sales and/or sales support experience
Skills:
Position Criteria:
•Possess technical sales aptitude, market channel knowledge and power distribution expertise
•Capable of working in a team environment, using strong communication and interpersonal skills
•Ability to establish customer relationships within the market area while maintaining and growing existing customer relationships
•Knowledgeable of Eaton product and service capabilities and can assemble standard offerings to meet customer needs with occasional internal oversight
•Possess necessary computer skills including: Adobe Acrobat, AutoCAD, Internet applications, Microsoft Office applications, and other product configuration tools
•Possess organizational, presentation, training, and planning skills
•Knowledgeable of market and industry issues, key trends, and surround competitors
•Ability to travel 10% of the time
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