Senior Product Technical Lead Engineer

Schneider Electric has a meaningful opportunity available for a Senior Product Technical Lead Engineer in our Power Products division.

You will work for a company consistently rated by Fortune as one of the "Great Places to Work", by Glassdoor as "Best Places To Work" and by TIME as the #1 "Most Sustainable Company in the World."

Position Summary

The Senior Product Technical Lead Engineer leads engineering execution for breaker development, sustaining, localization, quality improvement, and value engineering initiatives from concept through implementation.

This team member is the day-to-day engineering project leader responsible for translating scope into an executable plan, coordinating technical work, maintaining schedule discipline, and ensuring engineering deliverables are completed with sustainable quality.

The role requires a strong understanding of low-voltage circuit breakers and the ability to connect product design, validation, certification, manufacturing, sourcing, and project requirements.

This employee works closely with Offer Technical Leaders, Architects, Design Engineers, Certification Engineers, Quality, Manufacturing, Labs, Sourcing, Product Management, and Program Management.

Key Responsibilities - Project Leadership and Execution

• Lead engineering execution for Molded Case Circuit Breakers (MCCB), Air Circuit Breakers (ACB), and related breaker programs, including new product development, redesign, localization, sustaining, quality improvement, and value engineering projects.
• Translate project scope and technical requirements into clear work packages, milestones, owners, dependencies, and completion criteria.
• Drive project cadence, design reviews, maturity reviews, action tracking, issue closure, and engineering governance deliverables.
• Maintain clear accountability for commitments and escalate barriers with recommended recovery actions.
• Ensure engineering work remains aligned with approved scope, schedule, quality, cost, and compliance expectations.

Schedule Management and Coordination
• Develop and maintain integrated engineering schedules covering design, analysis, prototyping, testing, certification,
industrialization, and release activities.
• Identify critical-path activities, resource constraints, cross-functional dependencies, and schedule risks early.
• Coordinate global and local teams across engineering, labs, plants, quality, certification, sourcing, suppliers, and project
management.
• Lead schedule recovery planning when deliverables or milestones are at risk.
• Provide concise status updates that clearly communicate progress, risks, decisions needed, ownership, and next steps.

Breaker Product and Technical Leadership
• Apply strong working knowledge of breaker architecture, mechanisms, current paths, protection functions, trip systems,
materials, manufacturing processes, and product application requirements.
• Coordinate design and validation activities for molded-case ...