Global Director, Engineering- Distributed IT
Eaton Corporation•Woodridge, IL
•$203,000 - $297,000•Remote
About The Position
Eaton’s Distributed IT (D IT) division is seeking a Global Engineering Leader to drive innovation, product development, and systems engineering across our portfolio of data center and distributed infrastructure solutions. This executive will lead a global, multi-disciplinary engineering organization and play a critical role in shaping the future of power, cooling, connectivity, and digital infrastructure solutions for hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
- Minimum of 15 years professional engineering roles (power engineering background desirable)
- Minimum of 7 years of people management experience
- Significant experience in electrical components/systems design, new product development, and program management
- Knowledge of current engineering techniques, practices and engineering standards
- Demonstrated success leading and influencing geographically dispersed teams through a collaborative leadership style, while ensuring compliance and accountability
- Proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing teams
- Ability to influence and partner across a global matrix
- Collaborative orientation. The ability to succeed in a highly team-oriented environment
- Globally astute. Understands how to adapt communication style to fit different cultures
- Demonstrated strategic thinking, drive for results, and managerial courage
- Must have experience developing strategic plans and creating presentations to communicate the plans
- Proficiency in data center infrastructure, including cooling, power conversion, distribution, intelligent software monitoring systems and redundancy
Nice To Haves
- Master's in Engineering or MBA
- Advanced degree may be substituted for some experience
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the global engineering and technology strategy aligned to business growth priorities
- Drive innovation across integrated solutions spanning hardware, software, and services
- Partner with senior leadership to deliver business and functional objectives
- Lead end-to-end product development, including new product introductions (NPI) and lifecycle management
- Establish reference designs, system architectures, and validated configurations to accelerate deployment
- Translate customer requirements into scalable product and system roadmaps
- Lead customer co-design and development partnerships with hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise clients
- Implement structured voice-of-customer (VOC) processes to convert insights into engineering requirements
- Ensure solutions meet evolving needs in data centers, edge computing, and energy-efficient infrastructure
- Establish robust system validation, testing, and qualification frameworks
- Ensure high performance in reliability, scalability, and compliance
- Drive improvements in speed-to-market, cost, and quality
- Build and lead a high-performing, global engineering team across disciplines
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Develop leadership capability and technical depth across the organization
- Partner with Product Management, Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Ensure alignment across the full product lifecycle—from concept through deployment and sustainment
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Variety of benefit programs
- Variable incentive program
- Health and Welfare benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
