Automation Manufacturing Engineer

Eaton’s Critical Power Solutions (CPS) division is currently seeking a Automation Manufacturing Engineer to lead advanced manufacturing, automation, industrialization, and capacity initiatives across its manufacturing network. This role is located our of Richmond, VA.

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 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.

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.

• •Apply Lean manufacturing principles, including current-state and future-state value-stream mapping, to identify, prioritize, and implement improvements across CPS manufacturing sites.
• •Lead 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.
• •Develop and execute divisional manufacturing and capacity strategies that align equipment, labor, floor space, and capital investments with forecast demand.
• •Develop capital-project concepts and lead approved projects from business case and planning through implementation, validation, and operational handoff.
• •Evaluate existing manufacturing processes and implement solutions that improve safety, repeatability, quality, productivity, and cost competitiveness.
• •Lead the industrialization of new products by incorporating design for manufacturability and assembly, production-system design, automation, capital requirements, and launch-readiness planning.
• •Partner with engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and site leadership to standardize best practices and scale successful manufacturing solutions across the CPS network.
• •Independently manage multiple cross-functional projects, communicate risks and priorities, and deliver agreed scope, schedule, cost, and performance objectives.

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

• •Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes, including assembly, automation, material flow, and production-system design.
• •Demonstrated ability to apply Lean manufacturing systems and Six Sigma methods to solve complex operational problems.
• •Ability to translate business priorities into practical manufacturing strategies in a dynamic, multisite environment.
• •Ability to work independently and collaboratively and to communicate clearly and professionally across organizational levels and functions.
• •Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands, maintain momentum, influence without direct authority, and deliver measurable results.

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