Vice President of Engineering

Eaton Corporation•Highland, IL

2d•$203,000 - $297,000

About The Position

Eaton Corporation is seeking a Vice President of Engineering for its Global Energy Infrastructure (GEIS) business in North America. The position may be based in Highland, Illinois, or Syracuse, New York. Reporting to the President, Americas (GEIS), the VP supports a $1.8 billion business with 2,500 North American employees and leads a team of 8 direct reports and approximately 80 employees across the United States, Pune, and the Philippines. The VP is accountable for engineering strategy, technology and product roadmaps, new product development, product support, technical customer support, talent, and functional performance. Working with global engineering and cross-functional leaders, the VP will accelerate growth, improve product and process performance, manage technical risk, and build scalable engineering capabilities across the GEIS portfolio.

Requirements

At least 15 years of progressive engineering experience.
At least 10 years of leadership experience in an engineering services, product development, or project engineering environment.
Legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.
Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-site engineering or research and development organizations across multiple locations and cultures.
Working knowledge of modern product-development, systems-engineering, design-control, verification, configuration-management, and engineering-governance practices.
Ability to build organizational capability through workforce planning, recruiting, succession management, coaching, development, and organization design.
Ability to set strategy, translate it into executable plans, allocate resources, and deliver measurable business and technical results.
Ability to influence and collaborate across regional, global, and matrixed organizations and adapt communication to different audiences and cultures.
Demonstrated ability to drive and manage change, challenge the status quo, and champion new and innovative ideas.
Professional presence and the ability to communicate articulately and confidently.
Ability to leverage functional and cross-functional resources to solve problems, improve processes, and meet objectives.
Demonstrated written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Demonstrated success providing leadership to employees in a constantly changing environment.
An undergraduate degree is required.

Nice To Haves

A Master’s degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead regional engineering strategy and performance for GEIS North America, aligning priorities, capabilities, and resources with business growth objectives and global engineering direction.
Build a high-performing engineering organization through workforce and succession strategies, talent attraction, development and retention, and stronger leadership and technical capabilities.
Establish and continuously improve the engineering operating system, including organizational structure, processes, and metrics.
Develop and align technology and multi-generation product roadmaps with business priorities, customer needs, portfolio strategy, and enterprise technology initiatives.
Direct the regional engineering portfolio to deliver approved programs on schedule, within budget, and against technical, quality, cost, and customer requirements.
Ensure effective current-product support and configuration management, including accurate engineering documentation, design standards, material specifications, standard operating procedures, and scalable SAP product data and configuration systems.
Drive engineering productivity and value creation through value analysis/value engineering, component optimization, design reuse, manufacturability improvements, and collaboration with global engineering resources and other business units.
Partner with Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Commercial, customers, certification bodies, academia, and engineering centers to accelerate innovation and deliver customer-focused solutions from concept through lifecycle support.
Own engineering budgets, investment planning, resource allocation, and technical risk management, including product-liability considerations, to support strategic priorities and long-term business sustainability.