Senior Application Engineer

Eaton’s ARS division is currently seeking a Senior Application Engineer to join our team. This role can be based at the Sumter, SC or Columbia, SC site. Relocation assistance and sign on bonus are available!

The expected annual salary range for this role is $86000 - $126000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

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

This Senior Application Engineer role is a key contributor to the pre/post-order management process of Sumter switchboard orders to support our hyperscale and/or multi-tenant customers in the rapidly growing data center segment. The incumbent will oversee, review and coordinate customer supplied drawings, wiring and component selection, generation of standard customer approvals and performing various phases of order management from reconciliation through engineering and manufacturing information generation. This role requires advanced technical knowledge of switchboards and the switchboard product delivery system.

Essential Functions Include

Order Management: Reconcile incoming orders using Eaton’s configuration tools, order systems, and sales/channel communications, ensuring manufacturing capability supports requested lead times. Verify completeness and accuracy of order entry information for incoming switchboard orders. Review released order details and coordinate with customer service for scheduling to defined lead times and manufacturing lines. Provide a complete and accurate clean order entry checklist to the front-end team. Manage all post-release order changes, including product substitutions and ship‑short transactions. Interface with Quality and Warranty teams to support post-shipment customer needs.

Documentation and Design Support: Create customer approval drawing packages for first-of-kind hyperscale/data center designs. Complete confirmation drawings for hyperscale/data center projects. Review customer configurations for dimensional, layout, and specification accuracy. Interface with Design Engineering to support development of custom switchboard designs. Interpret non-standard customer requirements and align them to established standards where possible.

Material Coordination: Review bills of material for completeness and accuracy. Review complex wiring schemes to develop BOMs and material requisitions for advanced wiring devices. Prepare purchase requisitions for non-stock material items

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with manufacturing, project management, sales, and other disciplines to develop construction documentation sets. Conduct technical training for front-end switchboard team members. Attend project kick-off meetings, coordination calls, drawing reviews, and witness testing as a subject matter expert. Contact field sales to ensure accurate interpretation of customer specifications and requirements. Coordinate mechanical and electrical interfaces with other products. Participate in cross-functional teams to support Lean manufacturing and front-end process improvements.

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline from an accredited institution
• Minimum 18 months of engineering experience within a manufacturing facility
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution
• Experience with AutoCAD software
• Experience with Eaton systems: VISTA, Bid Manager, AS-400, ENOVIA & DMM
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated technical and application knowledge of switchboards
• Demonstrated proficiency in verbal & written communications, organizational & computer skills

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