Global OPEX Leader- Golf Pride

Eaton; Pinehurst (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Welfare benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid and unpaid time away from work

Job summary

Eaton is seeking a Global OPEX Leader for Golf Pride. This strategic role involves leading Continuous Improvement and EHS initiatives as part of the Global Operations Leadership Team. The role focuses on enhancing manufacturing efficiency, driving business process improvements, and establishing a world-class safety culture within the organization.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in continuous improvement and operations management, with technical expertise in Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. This position offers an annual salary range of $130,000 - $190,000 along with a variable incentive program.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in continuous improvement, EHS, and/or operations management.
• Technical CI expertise: Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, and daily management.
• EHS expertise: Familiarity with safety management systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead global CI and EHS functions and develop capability roadmap.
• Partner with teams to improve manufacturing and business processes.
• Build and deploy a unified framework for CI and EHS.

Skills

Transformation mindset

Manufacturing and business processes

Culture-focused approach to safety

Systems thinking

Strong leadership presence

Business acumen

Strong communication skills

Bias for action

Education

Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Minitab

Visio

SharePoint

Job description

Golf Pride is currently seeking a Global OPEX Leader- Golf Pride. The expected annual salary range for this role is $130,000 - $190,000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You’ll Do

As Golf Pride’s Global Operational Excellence Manager, you will be the senior-most leader of the Continuous Improvement and EHS functions and a member of the Global Operations Leadership Team, reporting to the Director of Global Operations. You will set the vision, standards, and capability roadmap for both functions. Plant teams and functional leaders look to this role for direction: you own what great CI and EHS look like; our plants and functions own daily execution and local implementation.

CI and EHS are distinct disciplines with different tools and technical demands. But they share a common leadership philosophy: both require building systems that sustain themselves, coaching leaders to own outcomes, and creating cultures where people identify problems, surface risk, and build strong process to improve performance every day. This role leads both because the leadership approach is the same.

Your Continuous Improvement Charter Spans Two Equally Important Priorities

• Manufacturing Process Improvement: Partner with plant teams in Thailand and Taiwan to develop and execute strategies that reduce lead times, lower product cost, and drive measurable P&L impact.
• Business Process Improvement: Partner with functional leaders across Golf Pride (Commercial, Innovation, Operations, HR, and Finance) to document and strengthen processes across the business.

Your EHS charter is to set the strategy, talent plan, and capability roadmap for Environmental Health and Safety at Golf Pride, driving world‑class safety. Your mandate is to build a culture where safety is deeply embedded in how work gets done, where employees identify and act on risk, leaders model the right behaviors, and safety is valued over speed or output.

Across both functions, you are a coach. You champion lean thinking and safety leadership across every part of the organization, not by owning the work, but by developing the leaders and teams around you to build, own, and continuously improve the processes and practices they run every day. Your goal is to make Golf Pride safer, simpler, and easier to run as we grow.

What You Can Expect

• Define Operational Excellence Strategy and Standards: Build and deploy a unified framework that spans continuous improvement and EHS, connecting manufacturing operations, business processes, and safety systems under a shared set of standards, assessments, and capability milestones.
• Drive Manufacturing Process Improvement: Lead division‑wide initiatives to reduce lead time and improve manufacturing efficiency, targeting 3% year‑over‑year productivity gains visible in P&L results. Partner with plant teams to deploy lean tools, conduct Value Stream Mapping, and execute rapid improvement events aligned to the CI roadmap.
• Drive Business Process Improvement: Partner with functional leaders across Golf Pride to identify, prioritize, and redesign business processes that create friction or limit scalability. Lead cross‑functional improvement initiatives, from order‑to‑cash and new product introduction to planning, reporting, and decision‑making workflows.
• Build a World‑Class Safety Culture: Define and deploy the systems, behaviors, and routines that make safety part of how work gets done every day. Build an environment where hazards are actively identified, risks are surfaced early.
• Lead Assessments and Framework Deployment: Drive annual MESH, ELSS, OpA, and EBS self‑assessments across the division, create action plans from findings, and serve as Lead Assessor for Operations Assessments (OpA). Extend assessment and maturity thinking to business processes and safety systems where applicable.
• Build Functional Capability Across the Organization: Grow the CI and EHS organizations globally, partnering with site teams in Taiwan and Thailand on staffing and talent development. Establish CI and Safety Councils to share best practices and build expertise.
• Partner Across Functions to Drive Business Impact: Collaborate across the business (Commercial, Innovation, Operations, HR, Finance, Legal) to integrate CI and EHS priorities with quality systems, engineering projects, new product launches, and commercialization timelines.

Who You Are

You are a systems‑minded leader who builds the processes, safety culture, and organizational capabilities that allow a business to scale. You are equally comfortable leading a Kaizen event on the factory floor, facilitating a cross‑functional team redesigning a business process, and coaching a plant leader on safety leadership routines.

You Bring

• A transformation mindset. You see Operational Excellence as a strategic capability to be built across the entire business, not a set of manufacturing tools or a compliance checklist.
• Breadth across manufacturing and business processes. You are as effective improving an order‑to‑cash workflow as you are optimizing a production line.
• A culture‑focused approach to safety. You believe safety is created through behavior, systems, and leadership, not rules alone.
• Systems thinking that drives learning, not blame. You approach process failures and safety incidents through root cause and system design, strengthening processes and leadership routines so the organization continuously improves over time.
• Global perspective. You can harmonize functional best practices across diverse sites, cultures, and functions.
• Strong leadership presence. You build trust, develop talent, hold teams accountable, and drive results through both direct leadership and indirect influence.
• Business acumen. You connect improvement work to P&L impact, commercialization speed, and customer value, not just operational efficiency.
• Strong communication skills. You present strategy and analysis with clarity and impact at all levels.
• A bias for action. Structured thinking paired with pragmatic decisions that deliver real results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.
• 7+ years in continuous improvement, EHS, and/or operations management; multi‑site experience preferred.
• Technical CI expertise: Deep knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, systems thinking, and daily management. Experience deploying CI roadmaps and maturity frameworks across manufacturing and business functions. Lean certification and Six Sigma Green Belt required; Black Belt preferred.
• EHS expertise: Familiarity with safety management systems, behavioral safety programs, incident investigation, and regulatory frameworks.
• Tools & Data: Proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, Minitab, Visio, and SharePoint. Strong analytical skills, both qualitative and quantitative.
• Process leadership: Proven ability to facilitate assessments (MESH, ELSS, OpA, EBS), lead cross‑functional improvement events, and align CI and EHS strategy with business objectives.
• Collaboration & Communication: Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, coach practitioners, and translate improvement work into business outcomes.
• Ability to travel internationally as business requires, approximately 25%.
• Passion for golf and understanding of the golfer’s experience preferred.

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