FBU Quality & Engineering Integration Manager

Position Overview:
Provides senior-level technical, quality, and strategic leadership for Eaton’s Fuel Business Unit (FBU) operating in a 100% supplier-managed environment. This role serves as the primary Eaton interface for complex Quality and Engineering issues, leading cross functional and multi site teams to resolve high risk customer, supplier, and product challenges.

The position requires the ability to speak truth to power, challenge incomplete or superficial analysis, and ensure rigor in problem solving and decision making while maintaining strong customer and supplier relationships. This role compliments the strategic product line management in technical discussions and drives sustainable supplier performance improvements across the value stream.

This is a virtual role and supports remote sites and resources work through external supplier sites and Eaton functional teams globally.

Essential Responsibilities:
•    Oversee, hire, and mentor all areas of quality personnel including return material (warranty), receiving inspection, final inspection, source inspection, supplier quality, manufacturing quality, customer quality, and quality compliance.
•    Monitors FBU product quality progress and performance and makes corrections as needed.
•    Acts as a primary organizational contact for customer concerns and ensures appropriate corrective actions are deployed as necessary at affected sites and suppliers.
•    Assists in organizational readiness for customer and other third party assessments.
•    Deploy Eaton Business System tools, where appropriate or required, to improve Quality Management System effectiveness (i.e. EQS, QLI, PPAP, WISPER, etc).
•    Assists in obtaining, maintaining and improving organizational certifications/regulatory compliance.  (i.e. QMS AS9100 certification, NADCAP process certification, FAA, etc).
•    Develop and deploy effective FMEAs and Control Plans using Eaton PPAP to insure process controls and standard work is being utilized effectively on the shop floor and at Suppliers.
•    Develop, set and achieve goals associated with the development, manufacture and supply of FBU products.
•    Ensure the promotion and awareness of customer and regulatory requirements throughout the organization and Eaton supply base.
•    Direct the disposition and analysis of returned material and internal non-conforming product within the scope of the FBU MRB process.
•    Insure that actions around top pareto rejection items are identified, implemented and validated.
•    Manages customer portals and customer scorecards to insure actions are being completed and customer requirements are being met.
•    Maintain and action quality metrics:  FRY, Customer and Intra-site DPPM, CONC, Scrap $, Warranty $, Customer Corrective Action OTD, Customer Audits, Supplier DPPM, Supplier Corrective Action OTD

Basic Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from accredited institution.
•    Minimum of 2 years with coaching and development of others.
•    Minimum of 7 years of experience in aerospace quality or engineering environments.
•    This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).  All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR.  ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e., Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee. Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future

 
Preferred Qualifications:
•    Strong working background in: 
   o    Statistical Process Control (SPC) implementation and monitoring.
   o    Manufacturing & Process (M&P) Engineering applications.
   o    Aerospace product and process qualification requirements.
   o    MRB actions and related customer interfaces.
•    Heavy auditing experience across manufacturing and supplier environments.
•    Strong Non Destructive Testing (NDT) and Special Process technical background.
•    Demonstrated ability to lead cross functional, multi site teams without direct authority.
•    Proven experience managing complex customer interactions and escalations.
•    Product design and/or development experience.
•    Experience leading large supplier improvement or transformation initiatives.
•    Deep familiarity with supplier PPAP, FAIR, and change management processes.
•    Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, global organization.
•    Reputation as a trusted technical advisor and problem solving leader.
•    Experience or demonstration of leading cross-functional teams with positive outcome/results.

•    Limited travel may be required (10-20%)