Assembly Coordinator

Eaton Corporation•Roanoke, VA

About The Position

Eaton’s ES GEIS CHD division is seeking an Assembly Coordinator. The role supports the daily operation of assembly production lines and provides leadership, direction, and development to production associates. The Coordinator helps ensure safe, efficient, and productive operations through workforce coordination, assembly planning, schedule execution, quality compliance, and continuous improvement. The role also serves as a liaison among production, planning, engineering, quality, materials, and other functional groups to meet customer and business requirements. The successful candidate leads by example, promotes Eaton values and its safety culture, drives operational excellence, and supports team-member development while helping meet production goals, quality standards, and delivery commitments. The position uses SAP and other business systems, maintains production records and performance metrics, supports reporting and data collection, and performs other assigned duties and special projects. The hourly rate is $22.59. Eaton notes that this is a general guideline and that pay is based on candidate skills, experience, qualifications, market conditions, and business considerations.

Requirements

Five years of experience working in a manufacturing environment.
Associate’s degree from an accredited institution.
Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Experience working in a team-oriented environment with cross-functional groups.
Working knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office applications.
Ability to analyze data and make sound operational decisions.
Ability to lead in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, and standard work concepts.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate company values, policies, leadership principles, safety requirements, and 5S practices.
Coach, mentor, train, and develop assembly team members; support employee engagement, accountability, onboarding, and development of new employees.
Ensure team members are properly trained and qualified and follow standardized work instructions.
Monitor and coordinate daily assembly activities to meet production schedules and customer requirements.
Coordinate staffing needs, work assignments, and resource allocation; support workload balancing and labor planning.
Escalate issues involving material shortages, equipment downtime, quality concerns, or staffing constraints.
Ensure products, changeovers, and workflow activities are performed safely and efficiently.
Participate in assembly planning and production meetings to review schedules, priorities, capacity constraints, and material availability.
Collaborate with Planning, Materials, Engineering, and Operations to ensure production plans are achievable.
Monitor schedules and communicate risks that may affect delivery commitments.
Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives, Kaizen events, value stream activities, and operational excellence projects.
Identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, productivity, delivery performance, and inventory management.
Collect, analyze, and communicate operational data to support improvement efforts.
Support implementation and sustainability of process improvements and standard work; promote problem solving and continuous improvement.
Work with Production Supervisors, Manufacturing Engineers, Buyers/Planners, Quality, and other teams to resolve operational challenges.
Communicate production status, priorities, and issues to leadership and supporting departments.
Support cross-functional initiatives that improve operational performance and customer satisfaction.
Use SAP and other business systems to support production activities.
Maintain accurate production records and performance metrics and support departmental reporting and data collection.
Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.