Chief Engineer, Aerospace Electrification

Description

• Work with GTDs across Eaton globally to define technical competencies and capabilities that will be required to support technology strategy, including defining and/or refining lab technical capabilities and requirements and working with GTD's to attract technical talent.
• Create emerging Energy Systems research programs based on breakthrough technologies necessary for energy transition, reliability, and efficiency in the aerospace industry.
• As a recognized global authority in aerospace electrification, you will coordinate and influence the research focus of partnering university consortiums and national lab initiatives
• Create and define research and technology focused themes, participate in defining technology investment strategy and lead complex global technology realization programs, in Aerospace Electrification.
• Further advance state of the art energy and power systems as well as to identify and develop commercialization opportunities with Eaton’s diverse global businesses.
• Identify program/project risks and influence key stakeholders to make pivot/persevere/kill decisions.
• Influence, resolve and communicates major changes in projects or program achievements to cross functional teams across all levels.

Requirements

• PhD from an accredited institution in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Expertise with aerospace propulsion or power systems
• Extensive experience in developing proposals and winning government-funded programs related to transportation electrification
• Experience as a Principal Investigator in a research setting helpful.
• Own technical leadership through aerospace electrification roadmaps and collaboration with multi-disciplinary globally distributed teams.
• Abilities and documented track record leading externally-funded programs, interacting with customers’ and partners’ advanced research and development organizations
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience, including time in the aerospace electrification industry.
• 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8U.S.C.
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution required.
• This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C.
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas: vehicle/aircraft electrical distribution architecture modeling and analysis, circuit protection and advanced control system design, energy storage systems for aircraft applications, thermal and air management for aircraft. This includes creating specifications, defining application space, modeling and designing technical solution concepts, and building and testing prototypes to validate models/hypotheses and documenting results
• Extensive experience in leading engineering groups and mentoring engineering talent to develop concepts and prototypes for bench and in-vehicle demonstrations, especially in the face of unknown or incomplete requirements
• Experience working on government proposals, programs, or contracts within an organization.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance