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Eaton Corporation Quality Manager in Redditch, United Kingdom

Join Our Team at Eaton: Empowering Tomorrow, Today!

We are more than just a power management company, we are committed to inclusion, diversity, and sustainability. You will be part of a global team committed to delivering on our brand promise: "Make what matters work" We pride ourselves on building a culture that reflects our shared goals, beliefs, and attitudes.

We are ethical - We are passionate - We are responsible - We are efficient - We are transparent - We are learning. We are EATON!

About Eaton

Eaton is a power management company where we provide energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton is dedicated to improving the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technology and services. Eaton has approximately 96,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries.

Quality Manager is responsible for leading the execution and deployment of the defined Strategic Quality Plan in conjunction with plant leadership. Provides Total Quality Leadership to customers, suppliers, partners and internal manufacturing cells. Leads continuous improvement activities in targeted areas. Manages the Quality Assurance strategy to ensure product flow consistent with established industry standards, government regulations and customer requirements

What you’ll do:

  • Manages Quality customer interface to proactively assure requirements are understood and satisfied, including assisting in complaint resolution and root cause and corrective action determination

  • Ensures quality organization support to Supply Chain Management organization relative to the collection and analysis of supplier quality data and management of DMR activities to address supplier non-conformances.

  • Leads the development, implementation, and improvement of the appropriate Quality Management Systems throughout the operation, providing quality leadership and support in the development and launch of new products, processes and services

  • Participates in, and may lead, the auditing of internal Quality Systems and acts as the interface/host for Customer and regulatory audits of our Quality Systems.

  • Analyzes organizational quality metrics and performs managerial reviews to evaluate results and recommend action plans to close gaps at an operational level

  • Develops and implements a Quality structure capable of supporting strategic business plans and initiatives

  • Designs and implements quality assurance training programs and conducts training in quality-related topics

  • Ensures functional participation in product development and launch activities including identification of customer expectations, manufacturing and test support, reliability analysis, design reviews, evaluation of test programs, material testing.

  • Leads improvement teams in the development and evaluation of process capability, process control plans, analysis of out-of-control conditions and process audits

  • Ensures development, implementation, and audit of complex inspection and test plans, standards and acceptance criteria, and procedures/work instructions

  • Evaluates operational performance of the group in order to facilitate performance management, merit promotions, job transfers, dismissals, commendations, etc.

  • Coordinates and assists with corporate initiatives, participating on teams in order to drive best practices across Eaton Corp.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree from engineering or similar departments.

  • Min 9-10 years of related professional and Supervisory/Managerial experience.

  • Detailed understanding of the key phases and requirements of an effective new product development and launch methodology

  • Detailed knowledge of industry and customer specific quality registration schemes and certification processes (i.e., ISO9001, ISO/TS-16949, AS9100 etc).

  • Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Process Variation Reduction (six Sigma) concepts and tool sets as they relate to process/product variability, and root cause and corrective action determination.

Skills:

  • Thorough understanding of problem-solving methods-i.e. Six Sigma, 8D, root cause analysis, and the associated statistical tools used to analyze problems, evaluate and complete improvement projects

  • Knowledge and understanding of Eaton’s corporate Supplier Quality Assurance requirements

  • Detailed knowledge of process auditing techniques to ensure compliance to defined quality requirements.

  • Detailed knowledge of product and end user application/specifications, including product testing requirements. (design/process interface)

  • ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), or Certified Quality Manager (CQMgr) is preferred.

What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package

  • Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team

  • We make your aspirations matter – Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible

  • We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University

  • We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the environment through power management technologies.

  • We make your wellbeing matter – We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it’s about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.

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