Regional Manager, Manufacturing Excellence

Eaton Corporation•Beachwood, OH

8h•$130,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

Eaton’s Corporate Sector is hiring a Regional Manager, Manufacturing Excellence. This U.S.-based remote role supports manufacturing sites across the country and requires travel of up to 50% to work directly with site and plant leadership teams. The position reports to the Director, Manufacturing Excellence and serves as the primary regional resource for deploying, adopting, and sustaining Eaton’s manufacturing operating system and operational excellence capabilities. The Regional Manager partners with plant leadership teams to provide training, coaching, implementation support, and validation. The role helps manufacturing sites build capability, improve operational maturity, and achieve performance objectives through manufacturing excellence principles. Success is measured by developing sites that can sustain the Eaton Production System (EPS) independently. The position collaborates with cross-functional teams and helps evolve enterprise standards and methodologies. The expected annual salary range is $130,000–$190,000, and the position is eligible for a variable incentive program. Salary depends on candidate skills, experience, qualifications, and market and business considerations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
At least 7 years of experience in manufacturing, operations, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and/or lean transformation.
Experience supporting multiple manufacturing sites or business units.
Experience working directly with Plant Managers and plant leadership teams.
Demonstrated experience implementing manufacturing operating systems, lean transformation initiatives, and/or operational excellence programs.
Demonstrated success driving changes to leadership and operating routines.
Experience leading training, coaching, and capability-development activities, including train-the-trainer and/or capability-building initiatives.
Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now or in the future.
Working knowledge of manufacturing operating systems such as TPS, EPS, Lean Manufacturing, or similar frameworks.
Ability to understand and integrate multiple manufacturing functional systems.
Experience conducting operational assessments and maturity evaluations.
Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies, including Lean, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, and Problem Solving.
Understanding of manufacturing performance metrics, visual management, and operational reviews.
Ability to interpret operational and process-health data and identify improvement opportunities.
Experience facilitating workshops and leading cross-functional improvement activities.
Knowledge of change management and deployment methodologies.
Ability to influence stakeholders within a matrix organization.
Strong coaching and facilitation capabilities.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to learn and explain complex operating-system concepts in simple language.
Ability to build credibility and trust with site leadership teams.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Effective project and deployment management capabilities.
Ability to lead through influence without direct authority.
Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills.
Ability to travel extensively to support regional manufacturing sites; travel of up to 50% is specified.

Responsibilities

Serve as the regional deployment leader for the Eaton Production System (EPS) and related manufacturing excellence programs across assigned businesses and manufacturing sites.
Maintain working knowledge of the EPS framework, including its procedures, governance model, tools, and playbooks.
Explain how EPS connects functional standards and systems without replacing functional ownership, and translate evolving requirements into practical expectations for plant and functional leaders and operating teams.
Maintain alignment among EPS, OpA transition requirements, ECIS, EBS, and relevant functional systems.
Deliver training, workshops, and capability-building sessions for plant leadership and operational teams.
Lead train-the-trainer deployment by identifying, training, coaching, and qualifying site and divisional EPS coaches.
Coach Plant Managers, functional leaders, value stream leaders, and local coaches in implementing and sustaining manufacturing excellence practices.
Conduct site assessments, maturity evaluations, and readiness reviews to identify gaps, opportunities, and required actions.
Lead validation activities to assess whether manufacturing standards, operating system requirements, and implementation milestones are achieved and sustained.
Support implementation by identifying barriers, recommending corrective actions, and facilitating problem-solving.
Partner with site leadership teams to develop deployment roadmaps and improvement plans aligned with business priorities and operational objectives.
Drive sites toward EPS self-sufficiency, with execution owned locally by plant leadership and site coaches.
Monitor site performance metrics and deployment progress, and recommend ways to improve operational effectiveness and accelerate results.
Facilitate sharing of best practices, lessons learned, and successful implementation approaches across regional sites.
Collaborate with Quality, Environmental Health & Safety, Supply Chain, Engineering, Human Resources, and Information Technology teams on integrated deployment.
Support validation gate reviews and recommend whether sites should progress through deployment phases.
Escalate systemic issues, deployment risks, and improvement opportunities to Manufacturing Excellence leadership.
Champion change in plant leadership and operating routines, promoting standard work, continuous improvement behaviors, and an operational excellence culture.