Remote Quality Director, Drive Global D-IT Quality & Growth

Eaton’s Electrical division is currently seeking a Quality Director to join our Distributed IT team. This role will be based remotely with anticipated up to 50% travel.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $146,000 - $215,000 a year. This position is also eligible for a EIC bonus program.

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.

Reporting to the Operations Director of Distributed IT (D-IT), the Quality Director will be responsible for quality for the Distributed IT Division’s $840M+ business. This role 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. The Quality Director will drive measurable improvements in quality and have a significant impact on D-IT’s annual and multi-year results.

This includes significant growth in NPI launches, sourcing strategy, and partnering with operations leadership to design new product lines in our sites.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the execution and deployment of the Strategic Quality Plan for the Distributed IT 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 D-IT 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.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business from an accredited institution
• Has experience working directly with data center customers and understands the pace and expectations of that environment
• Six Sigma Black-belt
• Strong understanding of AIAG tools, statistical tools, and analysis
• Problem Solving, Minitab
• Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
• Implementation of Power BI projects and analysis
• Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Conceptual thinking to understand complex issues and their implications on the results of the quality function globally
• Ability to implement solutions with a longer-term view.
• Conveying complex information and persuading diverse audiences globally
• Strong contributor to the development of functional strategy
• Must be…