Senior Operations Manager

Job description / Role

Eaton has been a key player in the Middle East for 40 years. Last July, we announced the construction of a new sustainable campus in Dubai, which will bring together our commercial, manufacturing, and support functions, providing room for future growth.

About Eaton

Eaton is a power management company where we provide energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton is dedicated to improving the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technology and services. Eaton has approximately 96,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries.

Eaton is seeking an Engineering Operations Manager for our Life Safety Division to be responsible for leading and executing engineering programmes focused on New Product Introduction (NPI) and Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) across the Life Safety product lines. The successful candidate will drive programme delivery, ensure alignment with business goals, and foster cross-functional collaboration across global teams .

What you’ll do:
- Leads the team in the NPI program management and VAVE functions across all Life Safety locations
• Leads the planning and execution of NPI and VAVE programs from concept to launch.
• Manages program scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation using PROLaunch methodology.
• Responsible for ensuring high quality of new products and enhanced existing products for all product lines

- Ensures compliance with engineering standards and regulatory requirements.
• Bringing in standard processes, methods and models to project management
• Building strong project managment capability within Life Safety
• Bringing in Strong Inter personal skills and a culture of on time delivery
• Bringing in engineering excellence to build discipline of on-time gates, and green metric culture to accelerate NPIs towards market launch
• Deployment of strong VAVE execution strategy, driving continuous improvement and cost optimisation
• Outside in perspective to driving innovation culture within Life Safety

- Collaborates with Product Line Managers to define technical roadmaps and prioritise engineering initiatives.
- Facilitates cross-functional team coordination across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain.
• Liase with global/EMEA Eaton program management, Engineering Functional excellence teams to ensure alignment
• Supervise (dotted) engineering teams present within the same site
• Establish and maintain an active and effective collaboration with other engineering leaders within Life Safety and within EATON.
• Encourage the teams to follow common processes of product development/Prolaunch across all developments"

Qualifications:
• Bachelor or master’s degree of Engineering and PMP or equivalent project management certification.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in program management in engineering or product development in the electronics industry.

Skills:
• Proficiency knowledge of technologies in Life Safety or related product domains would be beneficial.
• Proven success at delivering NPI and VAVE projects - understanding project management tools and methodologies.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to organize and prioritize the work, ability to work in team and to work under preasure.
• Communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills are important as well as working in a matrixed multi-site environment.

About the Company

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people around the world. We are guided by our commitment to doing the right thing in business, acting sustainably and helping our customers manage energy today and tomorrow. By capitalizing on global growth trends such as electrification and digitalization, we are accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy and helping solve the world’s most pressing energy management challenges.