Plant Manager

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Eaton’s Electrical Sector is hiring a Plant Manager for their Assemblies & Residential Solutions (ARS) business. This position will be based in El Paso, Texas.

Reporting the VP Operations, the Plant Manager is responsible for driving strategic and operational leadership. They drive profit and loss, growth strategy and organizational direction to meet and exceed short- and long‑term business goals. Our leaders foster an environment of engagement and inclusion for all employees and act with advocacy, empathy, and accountability. This is a non‑union site with over 500 employees.

The Plant Manager will drive plant performance as defined by regional and local objectives. This person has overall responsibility for all strategic and day‑to‑day activities impacting the Plant—Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Inventory. (High 5 Metrics). This person will also maintain a workforce of highly motivated employees with a morale that is conducive to high performance with performance being measured at or above minimum acceptable levels, drive performance to achieve or exceed financial plans and strategic goals.

• Manage both operational leadership team and functional staff including Quality, Finance, Continuous Improvement, Environmental Health & Safety, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Engineering and Maintenance
• Act with analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills to drive Key Performance Indicators
• Emphasize utilization of Lean/Six Sigma manufacturing tools (Kaizen, VSM, 5S+) to lead cost improvement analysis and implement actionable, measurable plans.
• Champion a workplace focused on Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) to drive a zero‑incident safety culture.
• Foster a Quality culture of early detection and escalations across the site to reduce cost, drive efficiency and ensure compliance.
• Partner with Human Resources to drive a talent management, learning, communication, and development strategies.

• Minimum ten (10) years of experience with progressive levels of accountability and responsibility in roles focused on Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, OPEX and/or related support functions in a manufacturing/production environment.
• Lean Six Sigma and/or continuous improvement experience.
• Minimum three (3) years of manager of people experience.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.

• Effectively drives and manages change, challenges the status quo and champions new and innovative ideas.
• Demonstrates professional presence, communicates articulately and confidently.
• Effectively leverages functional and cross‑functional resources to solve problems, improve processes and meet objectives.
• Demonstrated written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills.
• Demonstrated success in effectively and confidently providing “leadership” to employees in a constantly changing environment.

Undergraduate degree required; a Master’s degree preferred.

Eaton recognizes this role as a critical position within the corporation and will create a compelling package consisting of a base salary, employee incentive compensation, including long‑term incentive and complete benefits.

El Paso, Texas

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 $ – $ a year. This role is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

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.

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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.  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.

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