Quality Director

Quality Director

Reporting to the Senior Vice President & General Manager, the Quality Director will lead the Power Reliability Division's $1B+ business. In this role, you will develop and execute the division's quality strategy to support rapid growth in utility and data center markets, ensuring world-class supplier performance and manufacturing excellence. You will drive measurable improvements in quality and have a significant impact on PRD's annual and multi-year results.

What You'll Do :

Lead the execution and deployment of the Strategic Quality Plan for the Power Reliability (PRD) Division, representing the Quality Management System (QMS) and ensuring alignment with Eaton's standards and customer expectations.

Leverage cross-functional and regional resources to maintain product flow consistent with industry standards, government, and customer requirements.

Develop and execute the division's quality strategy, including the implementation of a unified quality management system (EQMS), KPIs, dashboards, and accountability routines.

Represent PRD in corporate quality councils and industry forums, actively participating as a senior member of the ES-A Quality Leadership team and Eaton's global quality council.

Ensure consistent deployment of quality systems across all plants and engineering processes, driving standard metrics, problem-solving rigor, and root cause analysis for quality incidents.

Lead corrective action initiatives and lessons learned programs to foster continuous improvement in process, product, and service quality.

Build and manage a structured supplier quality function, including qualifications, audits, incoming quality, corrective actions, and risk mitigation.

Oversee supplier performance and collaborate with procurement and operations to resolve supplier-related quality issues, ensuring compliance with customer, industry and QMS standards.

Address customer feedback and quality complaints, ensuring timely closure and systematic solutions, and engage directly with key customers to maintain trust and support contract negotiations.

Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and quality excellence, partnering with Quality Corporate leaders to align practices and strategies with the Eaton Quality System and develop talent according to corporate strategy.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in manufacturing, quality, engineering and / or continuous improvement environment
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a divisional or regional leadership role

Preferred Qualifications :

Location :

This position can be based at one of our facilities including Broomfield, CO, Olean, NY, Greenwood, SC, or Waukesha, WI (Division Headquarters) and will include approximately 35% travel. If residing outside of these locations, the anticipated travel percentage is 50%.

Skills :