Engineering Manager
Summary
Onsite Engineering Manager at Eaton's Greenwood, SC facility leading the electrical and mechanical engineering organization behind the Busway product line — overseeing customer-order engineering (designs, drawings, layouts, BOMs), demand/capacity planning, talent development, and continuous improvement and automation in an engineered-to-order manufacturing environment.
Eaton’s ES AMER ARS division is currently seeking an onsite Engineering Manager in our Greenwood, SC facility.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.
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:
As a member of the site Senior Leadership Team, the Engineering Manager provides strategic leadership for the electrical and mechanical engineering functions supporting the Busway product line. The role leads the development and execution of safe, reliable, and manufacturable engineering solutions while ensuring alignment between customer requirements, product design, and manufacturing capabilities.
The Engineering Manager drives engineering performance, talent development, continuous improvement, design standardization, automation, and technology adoption while supporting safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and customer expectations.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and execution of the Busway customer order engineering process, including electrical and mechanical design, engineering drawings, busway layouts/configurations, and bill of material (BOM) creation to ensure accurate and manufacturable solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement by identifying, prioritizing, and implementing initiatives that improve quality, delivery, productivity, standardization, automation, and overall engineering capability.
- Provide responsive, customer-focused engineering solutions while ensuring manufacturing, materials, supply chain, and other internal partners receive accurate technical information and timely engineering support to resolve issues and maintain production flow.
- Lead engineering demand and capacity planning, including support of the SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning) process, to ensure customer demand, project mix, engineering workload, and resource requirements are understood and appropriately aligned.
- Lead and develop the Busway engineering organization, establishing clear priorities, accountability, and performance expectations while effectively leveraging both on-site engineering talent and broader engineering support resources.
- Build organizational capability through talent development, succession planning, coaching, and technical development, ensuring the engineering organization has the skills and capacity needed to support current operations and future business growth.
- Lead structured problem-solving and continuous improvement efforts, coaching engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders to identify root causes, eliminate recurring issues, reduce engineering complexity, and improve overall execution.
- Advance engineering technology and automation, including design standardization, digital engineering tools, 3D modeling, configuration tools, and other solutions that improve engineering speed, accuracy, scalability, and manufacturability.
- Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Product Management, Sales, and other key stakeholders to strengthen upstream and downstream processes, improve collaboration, and ensure engineering solutions effectively support customer and manufacturing requirements.
- Promote a culture of safety, quality, inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement, reinforcing the Eaton Quality System and Eaton leadership expectations throughout the engineering organization.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience managing people and/or project teams in a manufacturing environment.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting engineered-to-order environments.
- 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:
- Strong technical and application knowledge of Busway products, electrical distribution systems, engineered-to-order (ETO) assemblies, engineering processes, and manufacturing requirements.
- Experience with electrical and mechanical design, customer order engineering, BOMs, drawings, design standardization, engineering change processes, and coordination across engineering, materials, manufacturing, quality, and customer requirements.
- Demonstrated leadership experience in complex ETO manufacturing environments, including coaching and talent development, cross-functional collaboration, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and building high-performing teams.
- Proven ability to lead change, continuous improvement, technology, and engineering automation initiatives focused on improving lead time, productivity, capacity, quality, cost, scalability, and overall business performance.
- Experience supporting product growth and new product development/introduction, including stage-gate processes, design reviews, product validation, lifecycle management, change control, and translating product and business strategy into execution.
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