Quality Director

Description

• Champions the deployment of functional quality strategies that align with business needs, while leveraging and aligning to corporate, sector, and regional strategic plans.
• Maintains overall ownership of the Quality Alert and Spill management process for the region, ensuring timely escalation and communication of customer spill incidents. Coordinates with Plant Quality and Supplier Quality colleagues to ensure appropriate containment and root-cause preventive actions are taken urgently, and provides onsite team support as appropriate.
• Oversees annual EQS Fresh Eyes Audit assessments to identify and drive systemic corrective action across the region.
• Ensures Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) requirements and processes are appropriately performed in operations, and supports PROLaunch New Product Development or Standard Transition projects.
• Supports regional training strategies and plans for quality processes and tools, including: 8D, PFMEA, Control Plans, Root Cause, Six Sigma, MSA/Gauge Capability, PPAP, APQP, CAR, QCPC, and WISPER.
• Builds organizational capability and manages the flow of talent across the quality function. Ensures deployment of Eaton’s quality functional excellence toolset and provides input to development plans of direct and functional reports.
• Responsible for CONC process improvement within plants and ensuring monthly and annual progress.
• Leads the execution of the annual budget plan, including performance scorecard metrics and initiatives.
• Drives communication of customer requirements throughout regional operations and functions; ensures these requirements guide business priorities.
• Collaborates with region and plant quality/continuous improvement management to improve performance, including identification and standardization of best practices.
• Drives proactive process manufacturing assessments at OEM facilities, leading reduction of manufacturing contributing factors and driving improvement in design contributing factors (both OEM and Eaton), in alignment with the Customer Focus process.
• Leads support of regional facilities and serves as the central point of contact for all customer-related processes (PPAP approval, PPCN communication, Customer Specific Requirements understanding).
• Accountable for the Quality Management System, ensuring it is integrated with and aligned to the Eaton Quality System (EQS) and Eaton Business System.

Requirements

• 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.
• Familiarity with PPAP, PFMEA, SPC
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Proven team leader with the ability to articulate clear direction that aligns with Eaton's vision, strategy, and direction
• Minimum of 5 years within the automotive industry preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of manufacturing, quality, engineering and/or continuous improvement
• Minimum of 5 years in people leadership roles
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally around 50% of the time
• Delivers strong leadership and problem-solving presence in manufacturing locations
• Experience within a complex, multinational organization
• Multisite leadership responsibility required
• Ability to manage effectively in a highly matrixed environment
• Certifications preferred including Six Sigma Black Belt, 8D, ASQ, CQM, CQE
• Excellent negotiating, interpersonal, communication, analytical, and strategic planning skills
• Skilled in identifying, acquiring, and developing talent

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance