Test Engineering Manager

Job Description

Eaton’s Electrical Power Distribution Inc. is currently seeking a Test Engineering Manager to join our team. This position is based at our Richmond, VA facility. Relocation assistance is available for this role.

We believe our Test Engineers deserve a challenging and rewarding experience where you can make a difference You deserve a company that has demonstrated a high degree of ethical standards and where “doing business right” really means something. You deserve an environment where your ideas matter.

At Eaton, we envision more than just manufacturing products that serve our many end markets. We see possibilities for reducing energy, increasing efficiency and promoting sustainability. We desire to power the essential resources needed for our world to thrive. This is how we see things differently and we challenge you to do the same by exploring a career at Eaton.

This position will involve extensive collaboration with new product development, product support teams, and manufacturing operations to develop and execute design verification, product reliability and industry compliance test programs on Power Distribution Units, Static Transfer Switches, Remote Power Panels, Overhead Busway, and Dry Type LV Transformers and reactors/inductors. This role will lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance test department safety, efficiency, and capabilities. Responsibilities include all customer orders and new product development.

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.

• Demonstrate safe working and test practices. Collaborate with plant EH&S, Maintenance, and QA functions to ensure compliance with required policies, upkeep, and calibration. Lead creation and improvements to lab and test procedure documentation.
• Execute system level verification and compliance tests including: HV dielectric, short-circuit duty, temperature rise, mechanical endurance, electronic control EMI/EMC testing and others.
• Direct a team of test engineers and technicians across multiple sites. Lead creative and innovative improvements to lab equipment, test methods, instrumentation and data acquisition.
• Document and communicate results to sponsoring engineer or team and collaborate with same to resolve issues encountered during test.
• Lead lean initiatives in the lab/test area to improve lab/test safety and efficiencies.
• Set aggressive goals, measures performance, and strives to go beyond what is expected.
• Constantly look for ways to improve processes, products and services; appropriately challenges the status quo.

When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Math or Physics from an accredited institution required.
• Minimum 10 years of engineering experience.
• Minimum 2 years of management experience.

• Expertise in magnetics design, test and qualification.
• Experience in industrial automation and controls and data systems.
• Experience in electrical and/or electro-mechanical testing of low voltage power equipment.
• Experience in UL1062, UL891, UL1561, UL857, UL60950, UL1008s, IEEE C57.12.
• Experience in automated test equipment design and implementation data networks (Ethernet, TCP/IP, CANBUS, optical fiber, routers), I/O systems, bus architectures and operating systems.
• Experience with test instrumentation (industrial controllers and I/O interfaces).
• Experience with AutoCad, SolidWorks, OPS, or similar design programs.

• Strong communication skills for interaction with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work through ambiguity with minimal supervision.

We 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.

We make what matters work. Everywhere you look—from the technology and machinery that surrounds us, to the critical services and infrastructure that we depend on every day—you’ll find one thing in common. It all relies on power. That’s why Eaton is dedicated to improving people’s lives and the environment with power management technologies that are more reliable, efficient, safe and sustainable. Because this is what matters.

We are confident we can deliver on this promise because of the attributes that our employees embody. We’re ethical, passionate, accountable, efficient, transparent and we’re committed to learning. These values enable us to tackle some of the toughest challenges on the planet, never losing sight of what matters.

Job: Engineering

Region: North America – US/Puerto Rico
Organization: ESSG PQD Power Quality Division

Job Level: Manager
Schedule: Full-time
Is remote work (i.e. working from home or another Eaton facility) allowed for this position?: No
Does this position offer relocation?: Relocation from within United States and / or Puerto Rico
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time