What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineering Manager position at Eaton?
Eaton’s GEIS division is currently seeking a Platform Engineering Manager.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $120075.03 - $176110.04 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.
What you’ll do:
- Works with Director of Engineering to maintain and execute a 3-year technology roadmap
- Directly oversees the following Engineering functions across the Industrial platform to ensure we have the right skillsets to meet our objectives: NPI, VAVE, and Sustaining.
- Maintains a workforce of highly motivated employees with a morale that is conducive to high levels of employee engagement.
- Attracts, selects, develops, trains, coaches, appraises, and motivates Industrial Engineering teams
- Partners with the Global Product Line Managers to drive overall project execution including milestones, and Engineering deliverables
- Aligns Industrial platforms objectives with the overall business objectives to ensure a strategy-focused workforce
- Works with Director of Engineering to continuously improve and standardize our use of Eaton Business System engineering elements (PROLaunch, Prelaunch, DFSS, Portfolio Management and Technology Roadmaps) across platforms
- Coordinates work across global engineering locations for GEIS in Syracuse, NY; Highland, IL; Sherman, TX; Pune, India; Manila, Philippines
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Manages R&D expenses and capital spending for GEIS
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited institution required
- Minimum seven (7) years’ work experience in design engineering within a manufacturing environment
- Minimum three (3) years of leadership of people experience
- Master’s Degree in Engineering, Engineering Management, or Business Administration
- Prior experience managing a team of Engineers
- Knowledge of Eaton’s GEIS products
- Experience dealing with product liability and product patent matters
- Proven track record of building organizational capability and talent through effective recruiting, training, coaching, development and optimizing organizational structure
- Knowledge of current engineering techniques, practices, and engineering standards
- Prior experience working within an ERP system (SAP and Business Explorer)
- Experience working in a global business environment
Skills:
Position Criteria:
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks in fast-paced/real-time environment
- Highly entrepreneurial sense of urgency along with a passion for the industry along with a drive to grow both personally and professionally
- Collaborative, flexible and adaptive when working with customers and various teams
- Has a proven track record of successfully measuring department goals to meet company performance standards, including measuring team productivity and effectiveness
- Enthusiastic and creative leader with the ability to inspire others
- Passion for revenue and growth
- Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement
- Strong understanding of press, casting and roll forming technologies
- Strong written/verbal communication skills
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (particularly Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint)
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Salary : $120,075 - $176,110
