Division OPEX / Quality Manager

Eaton is a global leader in liquid filtration, helping customers produce clean and pure products that power industries and improve lives. Our innovative filtration solutions are trusted across diverse sectors, including pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, automotive, power generation, municipal water treatment, and food and beverage production.

What You’ll Do

• Provide Quality & CI Leadership across the division to drive collaborative strategies and solutions, ensuring active leadership from management and ownership by all employees.
• Champion the Quality Management System / EQMS within Filtration; identify and lead prevention-based initiatives to address common barriers for the division and the plants, enabling sustainable improvements. Oversee the effectiveness of internal & external QMS/EQMS assessments, including support of OpA & EBSE through the identification of associated operational & site quality management action plans.
• Partner with the business, plants and functional leadership teams to develop plans and facilitate EBS‑Pull process deployment to meet Eaton standard processes and business goals, leading the development and implementation of the Eaton Business System (EBS) at the sites. Set strategy, define actions, coordinate with internal Eaton tools and processes such as ECIS, EBE, MESH, and sponsor and facilitate CI events including Integrated Deck Building workshops.
• Coordinate operational strategies and deployment for effective quality processes and tools, including CI, Six Sigma, APQP planning, PFMEA, control plans, supplier management, PPAP, process capability, risk assessment, root‑cause investigations, 8D, CAR/DMR, and WISPER.
• Drive key quality metrics such as quality cost‑of‑non‑conformance, supplier and customer DPPM, customer escapes, manufacturing yields, OEE, and cost‑out realization, utilizing appropriate benchmarking and comparative data.
• Provide functional leadership to plant operations and quality/CI management to improve performance, including the identification and standardization of best practices.
• Build organizational capability by supporting leading training strategies to build quality and CI competencies, performing competency gap assessments and providing input to development plans for direct and functional reports.
• Support division facilities as a central point of contact for all customer‑related processes.
• Establish effective warranty policies, tracking, analytics, and reporting to drive product‑line level improvements, contributing to productivity goals; manage customer loss and legal claims.
• Drive internal and external supplier quality development; expand and deploy processes, targeting critical commodities and focus suppliers to significantly reduce supplier defects by improving capabilities, including offshore and direct‑source suppliers.
• Lead the BCM (Business Continuous Management) activities to ensure the operational units operate with minimal disruption in the event of a disruptive occurrence.
• Represent the division on Eaton CI/Opex/Quality steering committees, councils or task forces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• 10 years of experience in quality, continuous improvement, manufacturing, or engineering.

Skills

• Proven experience in process development, implementation, and sustainability.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – both verbal and written.
• Effective leadership in a matrix organization, virtual teams across different locations, and cross‑cultural environments.
• Strong relationship‑building skills grounded in open, candid, and trusting interactions.
• Influential leadership skills that motivate others toward common goals.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to see the big picture.
• Strong analytical skills and understanding of problem‑solving tools and methods (Six Sigma, 8D, A3, Ishikawa), goal setting, and performance tracking.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
• Fluent in English; German is a plus.

We Offer

• Competitive benefits package.
• Challenging projects in a dynamic collaborative team.
• Learning & development opportunities through Eaton University.
• Wellness initiatives that enhance the work environment.
• Commitment to gender equality and inclusion.
• Participation in Flexible Work Solutions program.
• Great promotional opportunities – internal promotion whenever possible.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.