What youll do:

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technology leadership for Fuel portfolio, develop & drive technology road map to address next generation platforms
• Technical leadership and ownership for multidisciplinary systems & sub-system programs.
• Develop & Execute Fuel division technology strategy, working closly with key customers, external technology partners, academia / universities etc.,
• Accountable for technology maturation and delivery on program commitments, responsible for budget planning and execution.
• Lead and deliver on CRA (Collaborative Research Agreements) opportunities, external consortiums, govt funding programs.
• Prepare presentations / proposals for Eaton leadership on technology growth opportunities, highlight risks, external threats, competition and technology insights. Represent Eaton at customer meetings as a technology leader, drive growth and success to Eaton FMC Fuel business.
• Work with external standards and certification agencies to understand policy making, influence standards, better representing Eaton interests.
• Work with cross functional teams like product development, supply chain, manufacturing operations and sales & marketing for MRL and CRL maturations.
• Develop tools and processes for driving operational excellence in advance technology portfolio.
• Represent Eaton in external system engineering forums / commitees such as ATI, SAE, IEEE
• Lead creation of strategic roadmap for fuel products, like Pumps Valves FQIS Inerting etc., . Drive related actions by collaborating with internal - external stakeholders.
• Understands the competitive landscape and helps organization to design products to beat the competition
• Design and develop products in line with sustainability standards and goals
• Drive IP strategy for Fuel business, create new technological ideas and generate intellectual property (IP) for organization and driving competitive advantage.
• Manage capacity and resources including software/hardware as part of organization profit plans

Attract, develop and retain employees to build a strong-diversified talent pool and leadership succession for the center as well as broader EIIC & global organization. Coach and motivate team members to help achieve peak performance to best of their potential.

• Champion continuous capability and process improvements to support the Eaton Business System: Profit planning, Technology roadmap, Performance Management - Merit planning, Customer & Employee surveys, DFX.
• Develop and maintain currency in regulatory environments and advanced technology development on global and domestic levels to guide investments appropriately
• Develop a high performing, innovative, empowered and accountable culture across the Aerospace organization.

Qualifications:

Overall min 12+ years of relevant expertise and proven track record in engineering research/ analysis/ product design in multi-disciplinary areas of aero/ fuel/ electrical domain is essential.

Skills:

Technical Skills

• Proven track record in engineering / R&D domain, demonstrated tenacity and flexibility to reliably achieve goals.
• Possess strong business acumen and the ability to understand and formulate compelling value propositions and to understand and drive through value and adoption chain.
• Expertise control system design and analysis
• Expertise System integration, verification, validation
• Certification compliance to RTCA/DO-160, DO178, ARP4754. ARP4761 standards.
• Expertise with System V-Cycle and systems processes defined ISO/IEC15288
• Proven track record of complex problem solving
• Proven track record in Porfolio Management Leadership
• Product and system engineering proficiency aligned with Electro-hydro-mechanical components interface with controls and software
• DFSS GB, BB

Soft Skills Gets Results: Makes impact / improvement on customer driven commitments and results to successful execution of programs. e.g. xRL maturations and Pre2Pro conversions, CRA wins.
Thinks and Acts Strategically: Understands the competitive landscape, future technology and trends, and can translate them into breakthrough strategies. Lays out a compelling vision of the future, develops customer centric technolgies grows business.
External Collaboration: Influences & partners for external consortiums, govt bodies, academia / unversities collaborations.
Business Acumen: High organizational agility, understand how business & market operate, represents Eaton in customer meetings, takes / influence business decisions.
Builds Organizational Capabilities:Creates followership, sizes technical capability of team members for next generation technologies like LH2, disruptive gauging, PHM.
Risk taking ability: Ability to take calculated risk within his / her capacity to create positive impact on goals.
Challenges the status-quo: Thinks creatively, challenges status quo, drives and champions positive change.