Operations Director

• Empower employees and drive accountability for EHS to all levels in the organization. - Create a culture of exceeding customer expectations, ensuring that the organization is highly responsive to customer needs and issues.
• Work with key stakeholders across Marketing, Sales, Engineering and Operations to ensure achievement of end-to-end quality goals.
• Working with the supply chain function: establish inventory plans by product family/site; proactively manage inventory to profit plan, driving improved and sustainable processes; execute the Supply Demand Planning (SIOP) process, driving ownership and collaboration across all stakeholder groups; generate forecasts that meet customer expectations and profit plan objectives.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with key suppliers (internal and external) to ensure high quality relationships and products.
• Drive cost out, meeting or exceeding profit plan targets.
• Establish objectives and track key performance indicators across the organization. Ensure prompt, accurate reporting systems on all aspects of operations, leveraging EPM and Balanced Score Card.
• Partner and network with Division, Group and Sector functional organizations to ensure functional alignment of strategic objectives, annual goals and metrics, and resources.
• Develop and execute strategic capital spending plans for Operations to assure adequate capacity to meet growth objectives.
• Drive change through improved organizational capability, providing leadership in recruiting, goal alignment, employee development, performance management and communication. Ensure motivation and retention of a high performance management team and workforce. - Set appropriate staffing levels through the profit planning process. Proactively participate in staffing/headcount decisions for key positions in Operations and across Power Systems.
• Demonstrate a leadership style that perpetuates the Eaton Values and Philosophy and the Eaton Code of Ethics.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience with progressive levels of accountability and responsibility in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, OPEX and/or related support functions.
• Ability to work in the United States without company sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Master's in Business Administration (MBA) preferred.
• Strong knowledge and experience with the Eaton Business System and process tools such as profit planning, strategic planning, Organizational Capability Assessment, Eaton Value Cycle, Corporate Accounts, PROLaunch, Lean System/Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Fixed Capital Optimization, Eaton Quality System, and Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) processes (MESH, ISO 14001, etc.) is strongly preferred.
• 7 years prior experience with profit and loss ownership.
• Experience in engineered-to-order business strongly preferred.

Position Criteria:

• Knowledge of current technologies in manufacturing (assembly and fabrication), engineering, materials management/ inventory control, distribution and logistics, purchasing, quality assurance systems processes and practices.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Strong collaborative skills with the proven ability to drive change and leadership ownership/accountability.
• Demonstrated success in building high performance teams, leading cross-functionally, developing and retaining employees, and driving organizational change.
• Driving zero incident culture, with employee ownership of EHS. - Leadership, performance results, organizational development and operational improvement.

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Client-provided location(s): Waukesha, WI

Job ID: Eaton-59406Waukesha

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-03-11T18:39:50