Quality Manager - Customer Quality and Direct Source

Eaton Corporation; Menomonee Falls (WI); On-site; USD 113,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation’s Industrial Controls Division in Menomonee Falls, WI seeks a Quality Manager for Customer Quality and Direct Source to lead cross-functional quality activities across internal factories and external suppliers. This role includes up to 10% travel and will drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.

You will ensure product integrity, collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and customers, and push continuous improvement initiatives across global sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of QA experience in electrical devices manufacturing.
• No relocation benefit; within 50-mile radius of Menomonee Falls, WI required; immigration sponsorship not offered.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-site collaboration with Menomonee Falls and global sites.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities with engineering, marketing, sales, finance, legal, EESS, and customers.
• Manage daily interaction with teams in the EMEA region.
• Lead special projects: reliability, warranty analytics, SAP adaptation, training, factory moves, vendor support, audits.
• Act as SME, EWCS administrator, and drive continuous improvement and corrective actions.
• Oversee warranty returns and mentor factory QA personnel.
• Lead the PIC laboratory and drive improvement in ICD division.

Skills

QA experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Quality systems

Electrical industry knowledge

Audit experience

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

ISO 9001

SAP

Job description

Eaton’s Industrial Controls Division is currently seeking a Quality Manager - Customer Quality and Direct Source to join the team. This role is based at the Menomonee Falls, WI site and includes up to 10% travel.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $113000 - $165000 a year.

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:

The Quality Manager – Customer Quality and Direct Source oversees the Direct Source quality activities including customer and supplier quality, MOTC product integrity center (PIC) and the evaluation process for returned materials, partnering closely with both internal factories and external suppliers to drive effective root cause analysis and corrective actions. This role ensures issues are accurately diagnosed, addressed, and prevented through strong cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement efforts..

Job Responsibilities:

• Multi-site collaboration with Menomonee Falls, Haina, Coamo, Juarez, Bonn, all warehouses.
• Cross functional collaboration with engineering, marketing, sales, finance, legal, EESS, and customers. Kholds, eWarfs, customers escalations, problem solving projects.
• Manage the daily interaction and collaboration with teams in EMEA region.
• Special Projects including Reliability, Warranty analytics, SAP adaptation, training, factory process moves, vendor support, audits.
• Subject matter expert, EWCS administrator, factory moves, continuous improvement, Khold process, High Severity Customer Quality Escapes (HSCQE), A3 and problem solving and root cause corrective action.
• Manage processes for warranty returns for Menomonee Falls and ICD, and mentor factory QA personnel.
• Issue and support eWarfs and Kholds for ICD division and train factories on the process.
• Lead the PIC laboratory and personnel driving continuous improvement.
• Manage an improve ICD customer performance and satisfaction, external suppliers DPPM, warranty cycle time and PIC repair business.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 5 years of QA experience in electrical devices manufacturing
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Menomonee Falls, WI will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution
• Experience with analog and digital circuitry and components; electrical power distribution and electric motor control.
• Experience with ISO 90001
• Internal and external auditing experience

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