Component & Product Engineer - PCBA

Eaton has been a key player in the Middle East for 40 years. In July 2024, we announced the construction of a new sustainable campus in Dubai, which will bring together our commercial, manufacturing, and support functions, providing room for future growth.

About Eaton Eaton is a power management company where we provide energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton is dedicated to improving the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technology and services. Eaton has approximately 96,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries.

The Component & Product Engineer - PCBA is responsible to ensure data integrity of the Bill of Materials, process routines in SAP, Enovia and MES. The Component & Product Engineer is the main link with R&D centers, a leader of PCBA data industrialization related to manufacturing design, BOM & BOL. Key liasion person between design (R&D) and manufacturing (process engineers), technical support of logistics, quality and production. This role ensures PCBA full manufacturing process definition in our production systems (SAP and MES-Aprisio), for New Product Introduction, Transfered PCBA from other EATON plants or EMS, supporting product lifetime changes.

The Component & Product Engineer - PCBA will design process flow through each manufacturing steps, interacts with R&Ds during design phases (compatibility of product definition with Manufacturing plant ERP/MES systems), by supporting Industrialization Program Manager, supports production in quality improvement and suggests CI and VAVE projects to enhance EATON operational productivity.

What You’ll Do

• Liaison officer between R&D (customer) and manufacturing plant ERP/MES systems
• Creation of BOM & BOL for NPIs in SAP, with routines
• Review and recommend substitute components for new designs for improvements in supply chain, design robustness and maintainability
• Treatment and implementation of Engineering Change Notification (ECN)
• Implement risk management strategies to address obsolescence and proactively identify and address future obsolescence
• Lead cost reduction projects in design control
• Participate to component data analysis and failure identification-on supplier quality topics
• Identify components in production line on request
• Part of a cross-functional team in implementing product component changes within the Company
• Provide guidance regarding part selection, design concepts, specification requirements, critical components and alternate sources
• Quality review of the component parameter attributes from datasheets
• Create a cross R&Ds component database for all the Electrical/ Electronic & Indirect materials
• Secure that industrialization team is working with update to date R&D inputs data: BOM, process flow, Panel definition, Test specifications, manufacturing process requirements and CTQs, etc...
• Proactive in manufacturing work instructions for Prototypes manufacturing, for NPI and transfered PCBA projects
• Support Industrialization program manager in ProLaunch Manufacturing delivrables release: Process flow Chart, PFMEA, PPAP, etc..
• Support Industrialization program manager to influence PCB/PCBA design through DFM reviews, with R&D
• Ensure PCBA/Product ECO/MCO effective implementation in due time
• Support 4.0 initiatives on related equipment/processes for digitalization and connectivity to kepware/Ignition/MES (RTPPM, Traceability, SPC, etc..)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics/Industrial Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in PCBA manufacturing engineering. Strong knowledge on soldering is a plus.

Skills

• Demonstrating Component and Product Master data management experience in ERP & MES
• NPI & VAVE PCBA introduction in Manufacturing plant info