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Eaton

Power management leader for electrical systems

Supplier Quality Engineer - Plating & Painting, Quality

Quality EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, or a related technical discipline is required.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in manufacturing, quality, supply chain, or a related technical discipline is required.
  • Expertise in plating and painting is required.
  • Experience with plastic injection, molding, nonferrous casting, PCBA, and electronics is advantageous.
  • Demonstrated experience in manufacturing processes and assessing manufacturing capability and driving supplier process improvement is required.
  • Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, and structured problem solving is required.
  • Knowledge of Lean or continuous improvement methodologies is required.
  • The role requires up to 50% travel and comfortable commuting distance from an airport.

Responsibilities

  • Own and monitor commodity DPPM, supplier-quality performance, Pareto trends, chronic suppliers, and cross-site patterns.
  • Prioritize suppliers and commodity quality risks using performance, recurrence, business impact, and cross-site exposure.
  • Lead structured supplier-quality problem solving for complex, chronic, recurring, systemic, and cross-site issues.
  • Challenge and validate supplier root cause and corrective action, ensuring rigor, evidence, and recurrence prevention.
  • Drive systemic corrective action, chronic supplier recovery, and commodity-level quality improvement.
  • Plan and execute risk-based supplier audits and convert findings into prioritized quality-improvement actions.
  • Identify systemic quality risks across sites and coordinate cross-site corrective action and standardization where required.
  • Engage SDE commodity/process subject-matter experts when quality risk exposes a manufacturing capability, process, capacity, scalability, rate-readiness, or specialized technical gap.
  • Support defined APQP/PPAP quality activities and supplier-quality readiness for high-risk launches, changes, and transfers.
  • Verify effectiveness and sustained reduction of supplier and commodity quality risk.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with plastic injection, molding, nonferrous casting, PCBA, and electronics is advantageous.

About the Company

Eaton

Power management leader for electrical systems

Eaton designs and sells electrical power management products and services for data centers, utilities, aerospace, and other industries. It provides hardware like switches, circuit breakers, transformers, and distribution equipment, plus software and services to monitor, protect, and optimize power flow from generation to end use. It combines an end-to-end power management portfolio with a long history of acquisitions to be a broad, globally integrated provider. Its goal is to enable reliable, efficient, and safe electrification across industries by improving energy management and resilience.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1911

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