Quality Manager

Eaton’s Electrical Sector – Power Distribution & Controls Assemblies (PDCA) business is seeking a dynamic Quality Manager to join our manufacturing site leadership team in Omaha, Nebraska. Relocation assistance will be provided.

Our Omaha Power Center is expanding its operations in Bellevue! Eaton’s new 370,000-square-foot facility is expected to be online in the first half of 2027. The new facility will be designed and optimized to support high volume of switch gear structures at the quality and speed that AI data centers customers require. The engineered-to-order switch gear produced in the new facility can be integrated into Eaton’s prefabricated power systems, which are designed to offer customers flexibility.

The Quality Manager is a key member of the Bellevue Plant Leadership Team and is responsible for establishing, deploying, and sustaining a world-class quality management system for the Home Run facility. This leader owns the Eaton Quality Management System (EQMS), applicable ISO certification, manufacturing and customer quality, product testing operations, quality standards and systems, and plant quality performance.

The role ensures that products, processes, and systems consistently meet Eaton, customer, regulatory, and industry requirements. During plant launch and ramp-up, the Quality Manager will build scalable quality systems, Quality engineer talent, develop organizational capability, and embed prevention, process discipline, risk-based thinking, and continuous improvement into daily  this role you will:

Quality System Leadership
• Own deployment, governance, and continuous improvement of EQMS across the facility.
• Ensure plant processes comply with Eaton quality policies, procedures, standards, and applicable customer-specific requirements.
• Establish the site quality strategy, annual quality improvement plan, management review cadence, and quality governance routines.
• Promote an "I Own Quality" culture in which leaders and employees understand and execute their quality responsibilities.
• Ensure effective control of documents, records, nonconforming material, corrective actions, change control, calibration, and quality risks.

ISO, Compliance and Audit Leadership
• Lead implementation and maintenance of ISO 9001 certification and other applicable product, regulatory, and customer quality requirements.
• Serve as the site leader for certification, surveillance, customer, corporate, and internal quality audits.
• Develop the annual internal audit plan, maintain qualified auditors, and ensure timely and effective closure of findings.
• Lead management reviews and provide objective evidence of system effectiveness, risk mitigation, and continual improvement.
• Maintain audit readiness during facility launch, production ramp-up, product transfers, and new product introductions.

Test Operations and Product Verification
• Provide leadership and oversight for the plant test organization, including test supervisors, technicians, processes, equipment, and documentation.
• Ensure electrical and functional testing is performed to approved Eaton, customer, industry, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish standardized test methods, qualification requirements, test records, equipment calibration, preventive maintenance, and error-proofing.
• Monitor test yield, first-pass performance, retest, failure modes, and corrective actions to improve test effectiveness and throughput.
• Ensure failed tests and product nonconformances are contained, dispositioned, investigated, and prevented from recurring.

Manufacturing and Process Quality
• Partner with Value Stream Managers, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, and Continuous Improvement to build quality into manufacturing processes.
• Lead quality planning through PFMEA, Control Plans, inspection plans, capability studies, measurement system analysis, and process validation.
• Implement effective incoming, in-process, final inspection, and layered process audit strategies based on product and process risk.
• Drive reduction of defects, rework, scrap, nonconformances, and quality escapes using structured problem-solving and data analysis.
• Ensure appropriate…