VAVE Division Engineering Manager

What you'll do:

• Develop and own Tech Roadmap for VAVE (Value Analysis/Value Engineering) - blended with NPI Tech Roadmap.
• Conduct thorough analyses of existing products, identifying areas for improvement in design, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Deliver projects that result in optimized product design, manufacturing processes, and cost structures to enhance overall value.
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction, quality improvement, and efficiency enhancement throughout the product lifecycle.
• Lead initiatives to implement value engineering principles, ensuring that products meet or exceed customer expectations while maximizing profitability by working closely with cross-functional teams.
• Lead value engineering ideation events and projects across all divisional sites and strategic suppliers applying systematic methodologies to enhance product value and reduce costs to meet year over year savings objectives.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and procurement teams to implement cost-effective solutions without compromising product quality or performance.
• Utilize Pro-PM and waterline process to ensure project prioritization and resource allocation alignment.
• Identify potential risks associated with proposed changes and develop mitigation plans to ensure a smooth implementation of value engineering initiatives.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, technologies, and best practices to benchmark our products against competitors and market leaders.
• Identifies or defines best practices within engineering and documents, trains and deploys the same.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of value engineering projects, including cost savings achieved, design changes implemented, and overall impact on product performance.
• Promote and teach Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) tools, lead technical mentoring, and support cross-site engineering audits and reviews.
• Create effective strategies to help streamline processes, cut out waste and save money.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited institution
• Minimum seven (7) years of engineering responsibility including project management.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience managing of an engineering team

• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates that currently reside within the immediate geographical area of 50 miles of Moon Township or Peachtree City, GA will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Five (5) years of experience in the following (experience may be gained concurrently) is preferred:
• Development of and tracking effective engineering metrics to drive projects to successful completion
• Collaborating with manufacturing locations to coordinate successful product launches while meeting project schedules.
• Documenting, planning, executing, managing and controlling programs and technical resources.
• Management of a diverse and global team to accelerate engineering development

Preferred Certifications:
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Additional Information:

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