Senior Operations Manager

Eaton; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global power management company is seeking a Program Manager in Dubai to lead product development and NPI program management functions. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, along with 7+ years of program management experience in the electronics industry. Strong leadership and organizational skills are essential for effective collaboration across various teams in a matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in program management in engineering or product development in the electronics industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in NPI program management and VAVE functions.
• Manage program scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Line Managers to define technical roadmaps.

Skills

Proficiency knowledge of technologies in Life Safety

Project management tools and methodologies

Excellent organizational skills

Communication and leadership skills

Education

Bachelor or master's degree in Engineering

PMP or equivalent project management certification

Job description

Eaton has been a key player in the Middle East for 40 years. Last July, 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.

Responsibilities

• Leads the team in the NPI program management and VAVE functions across all Life Safety locations
• Leads the planning and execution of NPI and VAVE programs from concept to launch.
• Manages program scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation using PROLaunch methodology.
• Responsible for ensuring high quality of new products and enhanced existing products for all product lines
• Ensures compliance with engineering standards and regulatory requirements.
• Bringing in standard processes, methods and models to project management
• Building strong project management capability within Life Safety
• Bringing in Strong Inter personal skills and a culture of on time delivery
• Bringing in engineering excellence to build discipline of on-time gates, and green metric culture to accelerate NPIs towards market launch
• Deployment of strong VAVE execution strategy, driving continuous improvement and cost optimisation
• Outside in perspective to driving innovation culture within Life Safety
• Collaborates with Product Line Managers to define technical roadmaps and prioritise engineering initiatives.
• Facilitates cross-functional team coordination across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain.
• Liase with global/EMEA Eaton program management, Engineering Functional excellence teams to ensure alignment
• Supervise (dotted) engineering teams present within the same site
• Establish and maintain an active and effective collaboration with other engineering leaders within Life Safety and within EATON.
• Encourage the teams to follow common processes of product development/Prolaunch across all developments

Qualifications

• Bachelor or master’s degree of Engineering and PMP or equivalent project management certification.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in program management in engineering or product development in the electronics industry.

Skills

• Proficiency knowledge of technologies in Life Safety or related product domains would be beneficial.
• Proven success at delivering NPI and VAVE projects - understanding project management tools and methodologies.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to organize and prioritize the work, ability to work in a team and to work under preasure.
• Communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills are important as well as working in a matrixed multi-site environment.