Principal Manufacturing Engineer

What you’ll do:

Position Overview:
This individual will lead a team of manufacturing engineers to drive process improvement through designing, planning, and implementing innovative and best in class manufacturing processes and capital improvement projects. They will support day to day operations and will ensure that all customer expectations and deliveries are met.
Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.

In this function you will:
•    Lead a team of manufacturing engineers to ensure that the capacity and capability of our manufacturing processes are best in class.
•    Drive cost effective manufacturing using lean tools.
•    Facilitate NPI process across multiple functions by acting as a liaison between Engineering and Operations through Production Readiness Reviews, Product Development design reviews, Integrated Product Teams and Cost Estimates.
•    Use a structured, critical, analytical engineering approach to solve chronic, complex process and product problems.
•    Develop and/or improve current processes, process documentation, and blueprint revisions and/or corrections utilizing the defined change control / engineering change request process.
•    Work with Design Engineering and outside vendors to identify, evaluate, and incorporate new processes/technology into new and existing designs.
•    Identify, justify, purchase and incorporate new capital equipment.
•    Manage Manufacturing Bills Of Materials (MBOMs) and routing for new and existing products.
•    Address and resolve issues arising from risks analysis, environmental conditions, and ergonomic evaluations
•    Conducts risks analysis, evaluates environmental conditions, and ergonomic evaluations for new, updated, or adjusted production processes.
•    Ensure all processes and actions uphold the high standards of safety, quality, and cost of the product(s).
•    Evaluate vendor capabilities from a manufacturing engineering process perspective
 
 

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:
•    Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program
•    5+ years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
•    2+ years of leading manufacturing engineering teams or projects
•    Must be authorized to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now or in the future.
•    This position requires use of information or access to hardware which may be 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 70 miles of the Davenport, IA facility will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Preferred Qualifications:
•    BS degree in Industrial Engineering, Industrial Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering 
•    Experience with following tools: Design for Manufacturability (DFM) practices, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing(GD&T), Process Failure Mode Analysis (PFMEA), Process Mapping, Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) Process, Design of Experiments, ANOVA, Gage R & R.
•    Manufacturing Experience in a Union Environment       
•    Experience with KPI (Key Performance Indicator) goals
•    Experience with Manufacturing Processes (Electrical, Chemical, and Mechanical Assembly, Fabrication, Welding, Paint, Solder, etc.)
•    Experience with Change Control Board, and Engineering Change processes.
•    Experience with AS9100, ISO9100, SAE, SME, ANSI, MIL-STD, Nadcap, BAC, IPC J-STD and other standards as related to International, Federal, State, Local, and Customer requirements.
•    Experience with Enterprise Resource Programs (ERP), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Capacity Resource Planning (CRP) such as SAP, Oracle
•    Experience with CAD software (PRO E, Creo, CATIA), CNC programming, PLC programming