Supplier Quality & Development Engineer

Eaton Corporation; Fayetteville (NC); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation is hiring a Supplier Quality & Development Engineer for a HYBRID role, with locations across SC and NC, including Fayetteville. You will drive supplier performance, risk reduction, and capability improvement across sites and functions to support growth and launches.

The role requires 3+ years in manufacturing or supplier quality, APQP/PPAP experience, and up to 50% travel within NC/SC. Salary ranges from $97,000 to $143,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years in Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Development, Supplier Quality, Operations, or Supply Chain.
• Experience in APQP/PPAP, core tools, RCA, supplier assessments, and Lean/CI.
• Willing to travel up to 50% with NC/SC travel within states.

Responsibilities

• Monitor supplier performance, DPPM/DMRs, recurring defects and risks.
• Coordinate recovery for chronic or multi-site supplier issues.
• Maintain view of supplier risk by quality, capability, capacity and sourcing flexibility.
• Lead or support supplier assessments and improvement plans.
• Support APQP, PPAP, readiness, capacity, tooling-risk, launch and growth activities.
• Collaborate with Site SQEs and SDE technical resources on strategy.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Influence without authority

Communication

Problem solving

Prioritization

Collaboration

Accountability

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, or related technical field

Advanced Degree, Masters or MBA

Job description

Eaton’s ES AMER ARS division is currently seeking a Supplier Quality & Development Engineer. This position offers a HYBRID work schedule Monday-Friday at either of the following locations: Sumter SC, Hodges SC Greenwood SC, Raleigh NC, Fayetteville NC,Charlotte NC, or Asheville NC. We have 3 openings for this role.

The Supplier Quality & Development Engineer will involve activities by driving supplier performance, risk reduction, capability improvement, and readiness across sites. Coordinate recovery of chronic and cross-site supplier issues, support growth and launch needs, and connect Site, Sector, SDE, Procurement, Engineering, and Operations resources based on business risk. In this role, you will provide Supplier capacity - Develop supplier capapcity for critical suppliers, understand gaps and support the growth working with Global Procurement Organization teams.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 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:

In this role:

1. Monitor supplier performance, including DPPM, DMRs, recurring defects, chronic issues, and major supplier risks.
2. Coordinate recovery and escalation for chronic, repeat, or multi-site supplier issues.
3. Maintain a view of supplier risk based on quality, business criticality, growth exposure, capability, capacity, and sourcing flexibility.
4. Lead or support supplier assessments and improvement plans addressing both quality-system and manufacturing-capability gaps.
5. Support APQP, PPAP, readiness, capacity, tooling-risk, launch, transfer, and growth-related supplier activities.
6. Partner with Site SQEs to ensure consistent containment, corrective-action rigor, and effectiveness verification.
7. Engage Sector/Commodity SQEs and SDE technical resources when issues require broader strategy or deeper technical expertise.
8. Coordinate supplier improvement activities across Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, Operations, and COE.
9. Provide leadership with visibility to critical supplier risks, recovery status, readiness gaps, and escalation needs.
10. Promote consistent supplier-quality and supplier-development processes, governance, and standard work across Division sites.

Qualifications:

Basic REQUIRED Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, or related technical field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Development, Supplier Quality, Operations, or Supply Chain
• Must have experience in Supplier Quality, APQP/PPAP, core tools, RCA/corrective action, supplier assessments, manufacturing capability, supplier development, readiness/capacity fundamentals, Lean/CI, and supplier performance metrics.
• Must be willing to travel up to 50%. 90% travel will be within the North and South Carolina states.
• No relocation benefit is offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of the NC/SC surrounding areas: Greenwood SC, Hodges SC, Sumter SC, Raleigh NC, Fayetteville NC, Asheville NC or Charlotte NC work location 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 STM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H1-B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, 1-485 job portability, etc

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree, Masters or MBA

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SKILLS:

Cross-functional leadership, influence without authority, communication, problem solving, prioritization, collaboration, accountability, and adaptability.

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