What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Director of Quality position at Eaton?
About The Role
Eaton Corporation’s Global Energy Infrastructure Solutions (GEIS) division is seeking a Regional Director of Quality, supporting the Eaton’s heavy industrial, construction and oil/gas products. This role leads end-to-end quality strategy and execution across Eaton’s North American GEIS business, driving customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and cost efficiency while partnering closely with global leadership.
What You Will Do
Basic Qualifications:
The Regional Director of Quality must bring a deep, enterprise-level understanding of how products, processes, and organizational structures intersect across a complex regional and divisional portfolio. This leader will skillfully navigate a highly matrixed environment—cutting through complexity to rapidly diagnose and resolve critical customer quality issues.
Success in this role requires the ability to seamlessly translate customer expectations into actionable plans, partnering directly with divisional and plant teams to drive swift, effective resolution. The individual will prioritize and deploy resources with precision, ensuring efforts are both impactful and cost-efficient.
Equally important, this leader will serve as a trusted partner to key external customers—building strong, credibility-based relationships and consistently exceeding expectations through proactive communication, urgency, and measurable results.
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $165000 - $242000 a year. This role 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.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Eaton Corporation’s Global Energy Infrastructure Solutions (GEIS) division is seeking a Regional Director of Quality, supporting the Eaton’s heavy industrial, construction and oil/gas products. This role leads end-to-end quality strategy and execution across Eaton’s North American GEIS business, driving customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and cost efficiency while partnering closely with global leadership.
- This position may be based in Syracuse, NY; Highland, IL; Sherman, TX; Roanoke, VA; or Pittsburgh, PA and relocation offered within hiring country.
What You Will Do
- Provide leadership oversight of quality problem solving activities for 11 manufacturing plants’ select strategic customers and suppliers.
- Collaborate with plant cross-functional teams to identify root cause analyses in order to generate corrective action plans and assist in verifying the effectiveness of those actions. The incumbent will leverage tools within the Eaton Quality Systems to address quality concerns (e.g. 8D, root cause analysis, PFMEA, control plans, etc.) and communicate with customers as appropriate.
- Engage and leverage available quality data to provide trend analysis and insight to opportunities for improvement through the life cycle of products driving significant year over year performance improvement for both new and existing install base.
- Conduct customer satisfaction workshops (Business Process Improvements events and / or Emergent Learning Events) to improve group customer quality, and individual competency to exceed customer expectations.
- Partner with Key Account Sales and Marketing Managers and Engineering Services to remedy critical customer complaint issues, acting as coordinator representing ES Americas Quality for specific customers.
- Provide functional coaching, mentoring, evaluation and development of site Quality Managers.
- Implement Voice of Customer into the plants and help to develop individual plant strategies for quality. This will include training and supporting competency development and risk mitigation strategies.
- Leverage risk reduction and quality improvement to help drive cost out of the business, addressing productivity gaps, reduction of COPQ, and identifying additional cost-saving opportunities.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
- Minimum ten (10) years of experience with progressive levels of accountability and responsibility in Manufacturing/Operations, Quality, Continuous Improvement, and/or Manufacturing Engineering is required
- Minimum five (5) years of plant manufacturing leadership experience is required
- 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.
- Ability to travel up to 50% (domestic)
- Six Sigma Greenbelt certification
- Working knowledge of Quality Management System standards and AIAG requirements
- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer
- Customer support experience
The Regional Director of Quality must bring a deep, enterprise-level understanding of how products, processes, and organizational structures intersect across a complex regional and divisional portfolio. This leader will skillfully navigate a highly matrixed environment—cutting through complexity to rapidly diagnose and resolve critical customer quality issues.
Success in this role requires the ability to seamlessly translate customer expectations into actionable plans, partnering directly with divisional and plant teams to drive swift, effective resolution. The individual will prioritize and deploy resources with precision, ensuring efforts are both impactful and cost-efficient.
Equally important, this leader will serve as a trusted partner to key external customers—building strong, credibility-based relationships and consistently exceeding expectations through proactive communication, urgency, and measurable results.
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $165000 - $242000 a year. This role 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.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Salary : $165,000 - $242,000