Project Engineer

Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Project Engineer in Richmond, VA

The expected annual salary range for this role is $77249.97 - $110,000 a year.

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 position will be strategically based across the continental United States and supporting customers and field service engineers. This position supports positive customer experience through a proactive approach to project support and issue resolution associated with our Uniterupertable Power Supply units. This position will assist project manager with the UPS startups, commissioning and be liaison between the onsite project general contractor/electrical contractor, factory and field service engineers. This position leverages centralized resources to manage documentation and resolve issues and builds relationships across customers and Eaton facilities to deliver a successful project. This position works independently on daily tasks and collaborates with the onsite field team. This position will also work closely with the project managers within our strategic accounts function

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Associate degree in business or electrical technology or 2-3 years of Field Service experience

• Must have ability and willingness undergo and pass customer entrance requirements which may include, but is not limited to, periodic background checks and drug screenings.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associates degree in Engineering or other technical field

• Electrical industry expertise and product knowledge

• Prior experience working with contractors and project coordination

• Proficiency in applications required for job function (Adobe Acrobat, Bluebeam, SAP, Salesforce, and Microsoft O365)

• Experience with UPS

Skills:

Position Success Criteria :

• Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external customers for assigned projects

• Initiate escalation calls with technical support to ensure timeline resolution

• Leverage centralized resources to manage projects

• Initiate work orders for projects in collaboration with the dispatch team to get orders assigned to technicians

• Manage work orders to completion and collaborate with finance for invoicing

• Act as the technical liaison between customers, and field service engineers to efficiently carry out daily tasks (documentations, energization permits, LOTO, customers, project portals)

• Serve as the customer’s advocate by relaying the appropriate level of urgency to projects managers and escalating issues as required

• Pursue continuous learning of products and applications related to CPDI UPS’s, and DCPD products

• Provide daily updates to project managers on the status of the projects

• Manage meetings with on site general contractors to ensure timeline milestones

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