Plant Operations Manager

In this role you will:
• Manage and direct all manufacturing activities to ensure completion of customer requirements.
• Assess performance indicators and take appropriate actions to ensure schedule, cost and quality goals are met.
• Own the short term and long term scheduling and planning process in accordance to SIOP processes. To align all functional partners, resources, and material needs are met.
• Own the short and long-term capital planning process with an emphasis on machinery and productivity in accordance with known operation needs, strategies, and objectives.
• Ensure required documentation and/or system transactions are executed to meet customer, manufacturing system, and financial reporting requirements.
• Assure policies, procedures, and other documentation are followed to ensure consistent and compliant manufactured product.
• Provide leadership and commitment in support of continuous improvements in quality, productivity and delivery performance through the deployment of continuous improvement framework (CIF).
• Support product design organization through new product introduction phase to ensure customer manufacturing delivery times are met.
• Assure that Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) issues are addressed considering local regulations, Eaton policy, and good corporate citizenship.
• Evaluate operational performance of the group to facilitate performance management, merit promotions, job transfers, etc.
• Manage budgets and resource plans, and monitor performance, to achieve product delivery and cost requirements.
• Coordinate and assist with plant initiatives, participating on teams in order to drive best practices across enterprise.
• Coordinate with Human Resources to take care of employee relations issues as they arise within production.
• Achieve labor productivity, reduction of overtime and lead cost reduction efforts to drive factory cost take out.
• Champion implementation of MESH to achieve improvement in year-over-year safety performance measures

Qualifications:
• Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing operations, production control and/or manufacturing supervision.
• Minimum of two (2) years of team lead, supervision or people management experience.
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in either operations management, supply chain management, continuous improvement and/or manufacturing engineering in an Engineer to Order (ETO) manufacturing environment
• Experience working with ERP / MRP material systems

Position Success Criteria:
• Ability to interpret and collect data to drive decisions and identify improvements
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office products
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, and ability to understand highly technical product designs in order to address production opportunities.
• Strong leadership and coaching capabilities to influence others to drive for results and accountability
• Working knowledge of business systems, accounting systems, industrial engineering, and manufacturing operations and processes.
• Ability to utilize available materials to optimize customer satisfaction in the areas of design, quality, and on-time delivery.

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 $113000 - $165000 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.

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.

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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.

Client-provided location(s): Omaha, NE

Job ID: Eaton-58703Omaha

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-14T18:40:56