Global MES Quality Lead – Deployment & Readiness

Eaton Corporation; Holzhausen; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible working solutions

Excellent working environment

Culture & Values

Learning & Development

Job summary

Eaton Corporation is seeking a Quality Engineer to lead quality readiness for MES deployments across EMEA manufacturing sites. You will ensure quality processes, data, controls, testing, and users are prepared for go-live while supporting hypercare and stabilization.

This role requires 60% travel across the region. Candidates should have strong knowledge of quality assurance, traceability, PFMEA, and control plans, with experience in MES/ERP deployments and cross-functional collaboration with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical, Production Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
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Responsibilities

• Lead quality readiness assessments for MES deployments, identifying gaps, risks, actions, and site readiness requirements.
• Translate quality requirements into MES workflows, master data, controls, test scenarios, reports, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure readiness of key quality processes including inspection, nonconformance, traceability/genealogy, rework, scrap, tester data, and First Pass Yield (FPY).
• Coordinate quality User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring effective test coverage, defect resolution, retesting, and readiness before go-live.
• Provide hands-on quality support during deployment, go-live, and hypercare, ensuring rapid containment and resolution of quality-impacting issues.
• Partner with Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, MES Process Owners, IT, and implementation teams to resolve process, data, integration, and system issues.
• Drive root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions for recurring defects, data inconsistencies, workflow failures, and integration issues.
• Support MES expansion to additional production areas and continuously improve deployment standards using lessons learned and best practices.

Skills

Quality assurance

Traceability

Root-cause analysis

MES knowledge

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

MES

ERP

QMS

PLM

SAP

Job description

Eaton Corporation is seeking a Quality Engineer to lead quality readiness for MES deployments across EMEA manufacturing sites. You will ensure quality processes, data, controls, testing, and users are prepared for go-live while supporting hypercare and stabilization.

This role requires 60% travel across the region. Candidates should have strong knowledge of quality assurance, traceability, PFMEA, and control plans, with experience in MES/ERP deployments and cross-functional collaboration with