Senior Project Engineer

Eaton’s ES AMER NAS division is currently seeking a Senior Project Engineer. This is a hybrid role located in Chandler, AZ; City of Industry, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Pleasanton, CA; Roseville, CA; Tukwila, WA; Wilsonville, OR, or Littleton, CO facility.

What you’ll do:

This Senior Project Engineer will be strategically based in the western region of the United States and will play a key role in supporting order management through technical ownership of customer projects. This position helps deliver a positive customer experience by providing proactive project support, anticipating challenges, and driving timely issue resolution. The Senior Project Engineer will leverage centralized resources to manage project documentation, coordinate solutions, and build strong relationships across customers, sales teams, project teams, and Eaton facilities. This role requires the ability to work independently while collaborating cross-functionally to help ensure successful project execution from order through completion.

In this function you will:

• Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external customers for assigned projects
• Review and interpret contract drawings and specifications ensuring technical accuracy
• Manage technical changes to the bill of material
• Coordinate and interpret engineered-to-order drawings
• Leverage centralized resources to create and manage project documentation
• Provide technical support and follow through to drive all warranty issues to closure
• Act as the technical liaison between customers, sales, and factories to efficiently carry out technical order configuration, documentation, and warranty resolutions.
• Serve as the customer’s advocate by relaying the appropriate level of urgency to peer contacts in Eaton’s manufacturing facilities and escalating issues as required to management
• Pursue continuous learning of products and applications related to engineered products
• Collaborates with the Project Management Team including Project Managers, Sales Engineers, Project Coordinators, other Project Engineers, and the Documentation Team
• Lead verbal or written communication with internal and external stakeholders to address technical scope and design concerns

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution

• Minimum 3 years of work experience in sales, sales support, technical role or applicable field

• Relocation assistance is not available. Candidates must currently reside within a 50 mile radius of Chandler, AZ; City of Industry, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Pleasanton, CA; Roseville, CA; Tukwila, WA; Wilsonville, OR or Littleton, CO to be considered

• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other technical field

• Technical sales aptitude, market knowledge, and electrical industry experience

• Prior contractor, sales, and/or sales support experience with focus on the following customer bases: wastewater treatment, government, utility, commercial construction, data center, etc.

• Proficiency in applications required for job function (Eaton Bid Manager, AutoCAD, Adobe Acrobat, Bluebeam, customer quality management tools, ERP systems, and Microsoft O365)

Skills:

POSITION CRITERIA:

• Capable of working independently and in a team environment, using strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to establish customer relationships within the market area while maintaining and growing existing customer relationships

• Possess organizational, presentation, training, and planning skills

• Understand project management processes for supporting a project and take on a proactive approach in addressing open tasks or issues

• Ability to travel 10% of the time

All 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.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $104000 - $152000 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.

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on 11/30/2026

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