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Job Summary

Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Distributed IT Division (D-IT) the Director of Engineering will lead our engineering strategy, product development, and research and development function across our portfolio of power protection, connectivity, and energy infrastructure solutions. As the Director of Engineering, you will have the opportunity to drive innovation, sustaining engineering, and cost optimization across a diverse product portfolio leading a global organization and multiple cross functional teams impacting a $750M revenue business. You will play a critical role in advancing Eaton’s digital infrastructure capabilities to support edge computing, data centers, and hybrid IT environments.

Job Summary

Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Distributed IT Division (D-IT) the Director of Engineering will lead our engineering strategy, product development, and research and development function across our portfolio of power protection, connectivity, and energy infrastructure solutions. As the Director of Engineering, you will have the opportunity to drive innovation, sustaining engineering, and cost optimization across a diverse product portfolio leading a global organization and multiple cross functional teams impacting a $750M revenue business. You will play a critical role in advancing Eaton’s digital infrastructure capabilities to support edge computing, data centers, and hybrid IT environments.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing management team, and their reports of hardware, software/firmware, mechanical, and test engineers globally, fostering a culture of innovation, and continuous learning.
• Lead engineering strategy for data center infrastructure solutions, including power high voltage DC power to the rack, in-row cooling, and connectivity products tailored for hyperscale, colocation and enterprise environments.
• Collaborate with data center customers and internal stakeholders to understand evolving requirements in hyperscale, edge computing, modular solutions, energy efficiency, and remote management conversion.
• Oversee new product development introductions (NPI), ensuring alignment with customer needs, technology trends, and Eaton’s vitality and revenue targets.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Product Management to ensure seamless product lifecycle management and customer satisfaction.
• Own and initiatives to reduce product costs while maintaining performance and quality.
• Collaborate with Product Management to maintain a technology roadmap, with emphasis on digitalization, energy efficiency, and other technological trends.
• Manage engineering activities across global locations (design, manufacturing, support, etc.), ensuring alignment and knowledge sharing.
• Champion Eaton tools & systems to drive efficiency in engineering practices.
• Ensure D-IT product platforms meet the performance, scalability, and reliability demands of modern data center environments

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (preferred: Master's in Engineering or MBA)
• 15+ years progressive experience within product engineering for a multinational, dynamic industry leader in a comparable size/scope role.
• Expertise leading engineering teams developing data center infrastructure solutions tailored for hyperscale or colocation environments.
• Experience as a leader of leaders with global oversight.
• Experience with power electronics, digital technologies, product development & lifecycle management
• New Product Introduction Experience
• Proven track record in building high performance teams, leading cross-functionally, developing and retaining employees, and driving a culture of innovation.

Eaton Leadership Model

• Influences, empowers, and fosters the execution of key priorities.
• Demonstrates decision effectiveness: Leverages critical thinking skills and data to create new insights and improve decision speed and quality.
• Followership: Attracts, develops, retains, and promotes talent while creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
• Values human connections and demonstrates emotional intelligence: i.e., self-awareness, empathy, and resiliency.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $ 198,749.97- 291,499.96 note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.

You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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