[Hiring] Regional Manager, Manufacturing Excellence @Eaton Corporation

Role Description

Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Regional Manager, Manufacturing Excellence. This is a U.S.-based remote position offering the flexibility to work remotely while supporting manufacturing sites across the country. Travel of up to 50% is required to partner directly with site and plant leadership teams.

The Regional Manufacturing Excellence Leader reports to the Director, Manufacturing Excellence and serves as the primary regional resource for deployment, adoption, and sustainment of Eaton's manufacturing operating system and operational excellence capabilities. This role partners directly with plant leadership teams to deliver training, coaching, implementation support, and validation activities that drive consistent execution of enterprise manufacturing standards.

The position acts as a trusted advisor to manufacturing sites, helping leaders build capability, improve operational maturity, and accelerate achievement of performance objectives through effective application of manufacturing excellence principles.

The ideal candidate combines plant leadership credibility, teaching capability, systems thinking, change leadership, disciplined capability building, and deployment management, and measures success by building sites that sustain EPS on their own.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in manufacturing, operations, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and/or lean transformation.
• Experience supporting multiple manufacturing sites or business units.
• Experience working directly with Plant Managers and plant leadership teams.
• Demonstrated experience implementing manufacturing operating systems, lean transformation initiatives, and/or operational excellence programs.
• Demonstrated success driving changes to leadership and operating routines.
• Experience leading training, coaching, and capability-development activities, including train-the-trainer and/or capability-building initiatives.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of manufacturing operating systems such as Toyota Production System (TPS), Eaton Production System (EPS), Lean Manufacturing, or similar frameworks.
• Ability to understand and integrate multiple manufacturing functional systems.
• Experience conducting operational assessments and maturity evaluations.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies including Lean, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, and Problem Solving.
• Understanding of manufacturing performance metrics, visual management, and operational reviews.
• Ability to interpret operational and process-health data and identify improvement opportunities.
• Experience facilitating workshops and leading cross-functional improvement activities.
• Knowledge of change management and deployment methodologies.
• Ability to influence stakeholders within a matrix organization.

Benefits

• Various Health and Welfare benefits.
• Retirement benefits.
• Programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work.