Engineering Operations Manager

What you’ll do:

• Leads the team in the NPI program management and VAVE functions across all Life Safety locations
• Leads the planning and execution of NPI and VAVE programs from concept to launch.
• Manages program scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation using PROLaunch methodology.
• Responsible for ensuring high quality of new products and enhanced existing products for all product lines
• Ensures compliance with engineering standards and regulatory requirements.
• Bringing in standard processes, methods and models to project management
• Building strong project managment capability within Life Safety
• Bringing in Strong Inter personal skills and a culture of on time delivery
• Bringing in engineering excellence to build discipline of on-time gates, and green metric culture to accelerate NPIs towards market launch
• Deployment of strong VAVE execution strategy, driving continuous improvement and cost optimisation
• Outside in perspective to driving innovation culture within Life Safety
• Collaborates with Product Line Managers to define technical roadmaps and prioritise engineering initiatives.
• Facilitates cross-functional team coordination across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain.
• Liase with global/EMEA Eaton program management, Engineering Functional excellence teams to ensure alignment
• Supervise (dotted) engineering teams present within the same site
• Establish and maintain an active and effective collaboration with other engineering leaders within Life Safety and within EATON.
• Encourage the teams to follow common processes of product development/Prolaunch across all developments"

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or master’s degree of Engineering and PMP or equivalent project management certification.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in program management in engineering or product development in the electronics industry.

Skills:

• Proficiency knowledge of technologies in Life Safety or related product domains would be beneficial.
• Proven success at delivering NPI and VAVE projects - understanding project management tools and methodologies.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to organize and prioritize the work, ability to work in team and to work under preasure.
• Communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills are important as well as working in a matrixed multi-site environment.

What We Offer You:

• Being part of a company that has been in business for more than 100 years, is well known in the industry, and has a major impact on the energy industry
• Annual mentoring program, Eaton University, a reward, and recognition system
• Ongoing Learning and Career Development Opportunities in a global company. Build your career and apply internally for our open positions worldwide
• Strong, agile and diverse team locally and globally
• Strong processes and state-of-the-art systems and tools
• Detailed induction support and well-structured onboarding
• Balance your work and life with a hybrid worktime model

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