LVA Lead Electrical Engineer

Eaton’s ES AMER ARS PDCAD division is currently seeking a LVA Lead Electrical Engineer. This position is ONSITE Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm at our Eaton Asheville (Arden) NC facility.

The Low Voltage Assembly Lead Electrical Engineer (LVA EE) performs a wide variety of electrical engineering and technical tasks involving the application of engineering knowledge and the development of solutions to complex problems pertaining to new product development, materials, manufacturing processes, tests, and unique product applications.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 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

In this role:

• Develop digital, analog, and power electronic circuit board designs, analysis, and simulations utilizing tools such as PSPICE, MathCAD, and Altium PCB Designer.
• Participates as a team member and leads cross-functional project design teams. Directs preparation of appropriate documentation for assigned projects.
• Ensure successful completion of assigned projects within budgeted time and cost constraints. Participates in defining engineering approaches including the planning and scheduling of work.
• Executes all design, development, and related technical tasks required to maintain the product line.
• Develop product designs that may require the implementation of unique innovative solutions.
• Perform and participate in design verification/validation testing on test and product platforms.
• Coordinates all third-party design and certification testing to meet applicable industry standards.
• Contributes to organizational technical and business strategy.
• Must be capable of writing articles for trade and technical publications, presenting papers and preparing patent disclosures.
• Support plant initiatives and cost improvement objectives.
  
  
  

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

Basic REQUIRED Qualifications

• Bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of firmware and hardware design experience
• Must be able to travel 20%, domestically.
• No relocation is being offered for this role. Only candidates currently residing TODAY within a 50-mile radius of Eaton's Asheville (Arden) NC facility will be considered. Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
• 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.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Professional Engineer (PE)
  
  
  

Additional Information

• Demonstrated experience in product development including architecture definition, detailed software design, simulation, physical design, verification, and design for manufacturability
• Demonstrated experience in writing programs in the C, C language for embedded processors
• Demonstrated experience with industrial communication protocols including Modbus
• Ability to read schematics and interpret the behavior of electronic systems
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot analog and digital control circuitry
• Ability to analyze and control system algorithms
• Demonstrate sound problem solving skills
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a team environment
• Possess the ability to analyze product failure issues sufficiently to drive them to root cause
• Requires an individual who is self-motivated, self-managed, proactive, attentive to detail, task oriented, and able to overcome obstacles to meet schedule requirements
  
  
  

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