Lead Design Engineer

Eaton's AER MSD Mission System Division is seeking a Lead Design Engineer to join the team at our Westminster, MD facility. As a Lead Design Engineer, you will contribute directly to the design, analysis, test and build of composite pressure vessels and composite structures for our growing space, military, aircraft, and commercial customers.

Requirements

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to project teams made up of multiple engineering disciplines.
• Work with customers and our internal Business Development team to generate conceptual designs, definitize requirements, and develop cost estimates for new hardware.
• Coordinate, design, analyze and test composite pressure vessels and structures developing conceptual designs into mature product solutions.
• Attend conferences and trade shows to advance technical skills and market intelligence including ability to determine customer wants and needs and translate them into verifiable engineering requirements.
• Manage technical risk through exhaustive identification, prioritization of risk mitigation activities, and data driven design changes where appropriate.
• Function as program manager to execute programs to allocated cost and schedule requirements while meeting customer needs.
• Interface with suppliers and in house production teams throughout life of products.
• Develop engineering standards and design guides to support continuous improvement of the relevant engineering domain.
• Support the site as needed including developing new manufacturing processes, dispositioning nonconformances, troubleshooting product issues, responding to corrective actions, and incorporating any producibility lessons learned through drawing revisions.
• Manage technical risk through exhaustive identification, prioritization of risk mitigation activities, and data driven design changes where appropriate.
• Work to Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) principles including careful management of Critical to Quality requirements through the design lifecycle, rigorous knowledge building of the design space, understanding of the effects of manufacturing variation, and design for manufacturing and assembly to meet product recurring cost targets.
• Be able to mentor junior engineers within the incumbents specified domain.

Benefits

• Health and Welfare benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Unpaid time off