External Job
Title Leadership Development Program – Applications Engineering
AutoReqId 45279BR
Business Function Development Programs
Division Electrical Sector
Job Description About Eaton: At Eaton, our businesses make a difference to the world. As a part of the company, you can make a difference.
Eaton is a diversified, Fortune 200, power management company that has been doing business for nearly 100 years. As a global technology leader, Eaton helps customers manage power, so buildings, airplanes, trucks, cars, machinery and entire businesses can do more while consuming less energy. Our employees are unified in our commitment to powering business worldwide.
Eaton products and solutions are critical to industries and businesses. Our technology delivers the power inside hundreds of products and places – from commercial aircraft and military jets, manufacturing plants and hospitals, airport terminals, data centers and homes to hybrid trucks, cars, theme parks and oil rigs, and even the Panama Canal. We serve customers in more than 150 countries
At Eaton, we’re committed to “Doing Business Right” and that’s not just a slogan. It’s an unwavering commitment to the highest ethical practices and standards of behavior. It’s how we conduct ourselves in interactions with each other, our customers and our business partners. It’s how we support our communities, respect the environment, and it’s a reflection of our long-standing core values and beliefs about people.
Description: The goal of this development program is to develop applications engineers for power distribution products that include low-voltage and medium-voltage motor controls, panel boards, switchboards and low-voltage and medium-voltage switchgear.
Structure: The program’s duration is two years (one year at two manufacturing locations). Participants will relocate to two of the following locations: Sumter SC, Greenwood SC, Fayetteville NC, or Asheville NC.
Throughout the training cycle, this program will provide participants with meaningful projects where individual efforts and contributions are critical to our businesses. Qualified participants will receive multiple opportunities for formal training, networking, and coaching in addition to receiving ongoing formal feedback in order to evaluate personal progress and identify development opportunities.
Participants will spend 9 months in the Applications engineering function and the remaining 3 months in the associated plant Sales Engineering function at each location. Both positions will give the participants exposure to manufacturing and test functions, Eaton Field Sales and Applications Engineers, and end customers. Regardless of the two assignment products, by the end of the two year assignment, participants will be exposed to the following products: LV & MV motor control, panelboards, switchboards, Busway, Network Protectors, MV circuit breaker and fused switchgear, automatic transfer switches, safety and bolted pressure switches, distribution dry type transformers, and LV switchgear.
Basic Qualifications (Including Educational Requirements) Eaton Electrical Group’s Leadership Development Program for Applications Engineering is for graduates with a BS degree in electrical engineering with relevant internship or co-op experience, and who have future leadership aspirations. A background in Power is preferred.
Successful candidates must have a combined GPA of 3.0 or higher
A second language is also beneficial
Strong analytical, written, communication and presentation skills
Self-motivated and demonstrated a strong desire to achieve results
Authorization to work in the U.S., without visa sponsorship
Region North America - US/Puerto Rico
State TBD
City Various Locations
Employee category Regular
Experience
Level No Minimum Experience Required
Travel Required Up to 25 percent
Relocation benefit provided? Yes (US/PR Only)
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