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Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\nWhat you’ll do:\nJob Summary\nEaton Research Lab (ERL) has an exciting and rewarding position of a Mechanical Engineer Specialist Engineer to support research and technology development in emerging technology programs. The job function includes designing, developing, and testing power electronic based circuit protection and power conversion technology and products. The individual will work together with a diverse cross-functional team of engineers to drive the development of the mechanical systems and subsystems to be used in both low voltage and medium voltage AC & DC applications. The position also entails developing and testing innovative electromechanical actuation and electrical contact technologies. A key role will be to establish customer relationships, present ideas and projects to Eaton business leaders and ERL leadership. Ability to communicate complicated technologies in a clear and concise way to a variety of different audiences (business leaders, technical colleagues and lay people). The successful candidate will be reporting to the Technology Manager for Power Electronics (PE) group of ERL.\n**This Hybrid role requires working on-site 3 days a week at our facility in Menomonee Falls, WI. * RElocation is available for a qualified candidate currently residing in the USA. \nJob Responsibilities\nAs a technical leader, create emerging power electronics augmented electromechanical actuation and mechanism solutions based on breakthrough technologies for industrial, automotive, truck, and aerospace applications.\nLead and develop technology projects by supporting teams (local and remote resources) and working with external technology resources (Business Divisions, Universities, Suppliers and Customers).\nAdvance state of the art mechanical design and packaging of power electronics, electrical protection, and power converter technologies, as well as identify and develop commercialization opportunities with diverse Eaton businesses.\nLead and collaborate with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural globally distributed teams, and lead specific tasks within the scope of work and provide updates to project manager.\nIdentify, analyze, develop and validate advanced technologies in the fields of electromechanical actuation, motion control, materials, simulation and modeling of mechanical systems.\nParticipate in technology strategy discussions with Eaton’s Businesses and develop technology road maps.\nLead and support technology development projects and collaborate global teams (Eaton Business Divisions, Universities, National Labs and Customers).\nBuild global organizational capabilities in electromechanical design.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s Mechanical Engineering degree from an accredited institution.\nMinimum 7 years of electromechanical design including mechanical actuation and electrical equipment enclosure and packaging design, including creating specifications, defining application space, designing technical solution concepts, and building and testing prototypes.\nEaton 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.”\nCandidate will not need sponsorship now or in the future.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMasters / or PhD in Mechanical Engineering.\nPrevious experience (academic or postgraduate) with Power Electronics Industry and/or low voltage/high voltage Inverters / Converters.\nExperience in power electronics electromechanical packaging techniques; understanding of the effects of parasitic capacitance/inductance on circuit performance.\nExpertise in the following areas: electromechanical energy conversion (e.g. solenoid, Thompson coil, motor theory), power electronic module packaging and mechanical integration for indoor/outdoor and harsh environmental applications.\nKnowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.\nAbility to design, build, test, evaluate, and iterate prototyped mechanical systems and electro-mechanical devices in relevant lab environments. Understand and comply with site specific electrical test lab equipment and procedures, including health, safety and security aspects.\nStrong project management / problem solving skills .\nMust possess effective and verbal communications skills.\nMust possess good organizational and prioritization skills to maintain and address multiple assigned projects and expectations.\nTechnical knowledge:\nExperience in electromechanical design including mechanical actuation and electrical equipment enclosure and packaging design, including creating specifications, defining application space, designing technical solution concepts, and building and testing prototypes to validate models/hypotheses and documenting results.\nExpertise in the following areas: electromechanical energy conversion (e.g. solenoid, Thompson coil, motor theory), power electronic module packaging and mechanical integration for indoor/outdoor and harsh environmental applications. \nAbility to design, build, test, evaluate, and iterate prototyped mechanical systems and electro-mechanical devices in relevant lab environments. Understand and comply with site specific electrical test lab equipment and procedures, including health, safety and security aspects.\nAbility to efficiently drive product design from concept to “Minimum Viable Product” that can be lab validated and demonstrated to customers.\nUtilize statistical quality tools to establish performance baselines, identify focus areas for robustness improvement and measure improvement in robustness and performance.\nLeverage and drive component & system level modeling / simulation activities and initiate changes into existing and new component design.\nExperience in modeling mechanical systems using computer aided design and simulation tools (example: Creo, Inventor, Solidworks, ANSYS, etc).\nPreferred experience in power electronics electromechanical packaging techniques.\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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