[Hiring] Supplier Quality Engineer @Eaton Corporation

Role Description

Eaton’s ES AMER MFGSC division is currently seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer. This role can be based out of our Charlotte, NC location or remotely from a home office within the Eastern or Central Timezone. This role does require roughly 50% travel.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $113,000 - $165,000 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.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own and monitor commodity DPPM, supplier quality performance, Pareto trends, chronic suppliers, and cross-site patterns.
• Prioritize suppliers and commodity quality risks using performance data, recurrence trends, business impact, e-Score findings, and cross-site exposure.
• Lead structured supplier quality problem-solving efforts for complex, chronic, recurring, systemic, and cross-site issues.
• Challenge and validate supplier root cause analyses and corrective actions, ensuring rigor, evidence-based solutions, and recurrence prevention.
• Drive systemic corrective actions, chronic supplier recovery initiatives, and commodity-level quality improvements.
• Plan and execute risk-based e-Score supplier audits and convert findings into prioritized quality improvement actions.
• Identify systemic quality risks across sites and coordinate cross-site corrective actions and standardization efforts as needed.
• Engage SDE commodity and process subject matter experts (SMEs) when quality risks expose manufacturing capability, process, capacity, scalability, rate readiness, or specialized technical gaps.
• Support defined APQP/PPAP quality activities and supplier quality readiness for high-risk launches, changes, and transfer activities.
• Verify the effectiveness of corrective actions and ensure sustained reduction of supplier and commodity quality risks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• 5+ years of quality experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.
• Candidate must reside within the Eastern or Central timezone.

Requirements

• Lean Auditor qualification.
• Lean/six sigma certification.
• Experience working across multiple sites, regions, and cultures.
• ASQ certified supplier quality professional.
• Demonstrated experience assessing manufacturing capability and driving supplier improvement.
• Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, and structured problem solving.
• Knowledge of Lean / Continuous Improvement methodologies.

Skills

• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Ability to influence and lead supplier improvement without direct authority.
• Ability to lead cross-functional activities across multiple sites and functions.

Benefits

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. 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.