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This role is located our of Richmond, VA.\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year.\nPlease 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.\nThe Automation Manufacturing Engineer will lead advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 initiatives across the CPS division. This role will improve manufacturing performance, support safe and effective product launches, strengthen design for manufacturability and assembly, and lead capital investment and capacity-expansion projects.\nMaking 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.\nWhat you’ll do:\nApply Lean manufacturing principles, including current-state and future-state value-stream mapping, to identify, prioritize, and implement improvements across CPS manufacturing sites.\nLead divisional Industry 4.0 and automation projects and provide technical support for site-led implementations, including autonomous mobile robots, vertical lift modules, industrial robotics, and collaborative robotics.\nDevelop and execute divisional manufacturing and capacity strategies that align equipment, labor, floor space, and capital investments with forecast demand.\nDevelop capital-project concepts and lead approved projects from business case and planning through implementation, validation, and operational handoff.\nEvaluate existing manufacturing processes and implement solutions that improve safety, repeatability, quality, productivity, and cost competitiveness.\nLead the industrialization of new products by incorporating design for manufacturability and assembly, production-system design, automation, capital requirements, and launch-readiness planning.\nPartner with engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and site leadership to standardize best practices and scale successful manufacturing solutions across the CPS network.\nIndependently manage multiple cross-functional projects, communicate risks and priorities, and deliver agreed scope, schedule, cost, and performance objectives.\nWhen we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we - as individuals and as a company - are stronger.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.\nMinimum of five years of progressive manufacturing engineering experience, including experience leading cross-functional projects or multisite initiatives.\nCandidates must reside within 50 miles of the location listed in the job description\nMust be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in mechanical, industrial, manufacturing, or a related engineering discipline.\nExperience using an enterprise resource planning or material requirements planning system, preferably SAP.\nExperience implementing industrial automation, industrial robotics, or collaborative robotics.\nExperience using Microsoft Project or an equivalent project-planning tool.\nLean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.\nProject Management Professional certification or an equivalent project-management credential.\nSkills:\nPosition Criteria:\nBroad knowledge of manufacturing processes, including assembly, automation, material flow, and production-system design.\nDemonstrated ability to apply Lean manufacturing systems and Six Sigma methods to solve complex operational problems.\nAbility to translate business priorities into practical manufacturing strategies in a dynamic, multisite environment.\nAbility to work independently and collaboratively and to communicate clearly and professionally across organizational levels and functions.\nDemonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands, maintain momentum, influence without direct authority, and deliver measurable results.\nAll positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\nEaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.\nYou do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.\nTo request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.\nWe know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. 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