Director of Capacity Programs | Cross-Functional Leader

Eaton; Beachwood (OH); On-site; USD 182,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton seeks a Director of Program Management – Capacity to lead a team delivering major capacity expansions and capital investments at its Beachwood, OH (and Moon Township, PA) locations. The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and executive alignment to ensure on-time, on-budget execution.

You will drive integrated planning, cross-functional collaboration, and scalable processes across Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Finance, IT, HR, Legal, and Real Estate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Program Management, or related field from an accredited institution.
• Minimum ten (10) years of progressive leadership experience managing large-scale programs, capital investments, manufacturing expansions, or strategic business initiatives.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs with executive-level visibility.
• Experience in program and portfolio management including the PROLaunch processes, stage-gate governance and risk and issue management.
• Experience in organizational change management and capital project execution.
• Experience leading greenfield and plant expansion projects.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Program Managers responsible for strategic growth, capacity expansion, business-critical initiatives, and functional excellence programs.
• Establish and maintain program governance, stage-gate processes, executive reviews, and launch readiness assessments.
• Develop and oversee centralized portfolio management practices to ensure alignment with business priorities, resource availability, and escalation of key program issues to facilitate support needed to eliminate roadblocks.
• Define program success metrics and ensure accountability for delivery against scope, cost, schedule, and quality objectives.
• Lead planning and execution of large-scale manufacturing expansion, industrialization, and operational readiness programs.
• Develop integrated master project plans, schedules, milestones, and communication strategies.
• Manage program interdependencies across Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Finance, IT, HR, Legal, and Real Estate.
• Ensure all stakeholders remain aligned on priorities, risks, decisions, and execution plans.
• Drive coordination across functional workstreams to ensure readiness for facility startups, equipment installation, manufacturing ramp-up, and operational launch.
• Facilitate decision-making and issue resolution among senior leaders and project teams.
• Champion collaboration and transparency across multiple business units and regions.
• Establish processes for proactive identification, escalation, and mitigation of program risks and issues.
• Lead contingency planning and scenario analysis to address potential schedule, budget, supply chain, or operational challenges.
• Ensure risks, assumptions, dependencies, and key decisions are documented and actively managed.
• Partner with Finance and functional leaders to develop resource plans, investment strategies, program budgets, and regular updates to the program financial model as assumptions and actuals change.
• Monitor capital spending, forecast program costs, and ensure alignment with approved business cases.
• Optimize resource allocation across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Lead organizational change management efforts to support adoption of new processes, systems, and operating models.
• Develop executive communications, progress reports, and leadership presentations.
• Ensure stakeholders at all levels understand program objectives, timelines, and readiness requirements.
• Establish and execute a change control process to manage customer expectations on design, timing, and cost and coordinate that process with key functional leaders.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Program Management, or related field

Job description

Eaton seeks a Director of Program Management – Capacity to lead a team delivering major capacity expansions and capital investments at its Beachwood, OH (and Moon Township, PA) locations. The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and executive alignment to ensure on-time, on-budget execution.

You will drive integrated planning, cross-functional collaboration, and scalable processes across Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Finance, IT, HR, Legal, and Real Estate