Quality Manager

What you’ll do:

The Quality Manager is the site Quality leader for Fibrebond's Little Rock manufacturing facility. This position will establish and lead the Quality function during facility startup, production launch, and ongoing operations. The role is accountable for implementing the site's Quality Management System (QMS), developing the Quality team, establishing inspection and testing processes, and ensuring products and manufacturing processes meet customer, engineering, regulatory, and company requirements.

Fibrebond, an Eaton company, designs and manufactures pre-integrated modular buildings and power enclosures that protect mission-critical equipment for data center, industrial, utility, and communications customers. Headquartered in Minden, Louisiana, Fibrebond is known for its engineered-to-order solutions that support complex infrastructure projects across North America. In 2025, Fibrebond was acquired by Eaton, expanding Eaton's modular solutions portfolio while preserving Fibrebond's strong engineering expertise, customer focus, and manufacturing operations in Louisiana.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the Little Rock Quality Management System, including the Quality Manual, procedures, work instructions, records, document control, calibration, and nonconforming-material processes.
• Establish quality-readiness plans and requirements for facility startup, equipment commissioning, process qualification, production launch, and manufacturing ramp-up.
• Build and lead the site Quality organization, including workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, training, performance management, qualification, and development of quality engineers, inspectors, technicians, and testing personnel.
• Establish and maintain incoming, in-process, final inspection, testing, and product-release processes aligned with drawings, specifications, travelers, SOPs, customer requirements, and applicable regulations.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, EHS, and corporate Quality to identify risks and integrate practical quality controls into products, processes, equipment, and material flow.
• Lead containment, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, and effectiveness verification for defects, escapes, nonconformances, warranty concerns, supplier issues, and recurring process failures.
• Develop and maintain inspection plans, acceptance criteria, control plans, PFMEAs, testing requirements, and change controls for drawing, specification, bill-of-material, and process revisions.
• Lead internal audits and support customer, corporate, state, regulatory, certification, and third-party inspections; ensure audit findings and corrective actions are closed effectively.
• Establish supplier and incoming-quality controls, monitor supplier performance, and lead or support supplier corrective actions based on material and process risk.
• Establish site Quality KPIs and operating rhythms; use data on defects, first-pass yield, rework, scrap, warranty, supplier quality, calibration, audits, and corrective actions to drive accountability and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications: 
    • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
    • Minimum five (5) years of progressively responsible quality, manufacturing, engineering, supplier quality, or quality-systems experience in a manufacturing environment
    • Minimum of two (2) years of quality leadership experience (leading quality teams, projects, or initiatives
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.

Preferred Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, or another technical discipline.
    • Experience establishing a Quality function or QMS for a greenfield facility, plant startup, new production line, or major manufacturing launch.
    • Working knowledge of ISO 9001 and quality methods such as APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, MSA, SPC, 8D, and layered process audits.
    • ISO 9001:2015 certified auditor.
    • Experience with certification and/or recertification of ISO.
    • ASQ quality certification and/or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
    • Experience with electrical equipment, modular construction, engineered-to-order manufacturing, power distribution, or mission-critical infrastructure.

Skills:

• Strong leadership, coaching, and team-development skills with the ability to build a Quality organization in a startup environment.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing Quality Management Systems, document control, calibration, nonconforming material, auditing, and corrective-action processes.
• Proficiency in structured problem-solving and root-cause methods, including 8D, 5-Why, fishbone analysis, PFMEA, and corrective and preventive action.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, inspection criteria, and technical documentation.
• Ability to translate customer, engineering, and regulatory requirements into practical inspection, testing, and manufacturing controls.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to establish and interpret Quality KPIs, identify trends, and use data to drive corrective action and continuous improvement.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate quality risks, priorities, and expectations across Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, EHS, and leadership teams.
• Strong planning, organization, and project-management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities during facility launch and production ramp-up.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and electronic quality, document-control, and data-reporting systems.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams, make sound risk-based decisions, and maintain accountability in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
*Travel: Average 25%