Eaton's corporate Engineering Excellence team is seeking a Sr. Manager with a focus on Engineering Process and AI automation to own and evolve enterprise engineering processes and embed AI-enabled capabilities to automate routine work, strengthen governance, and improve speed and quality.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of professional product engineering experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience leading projects/programs/transformations within a complex, multinational company setting
- Minimum 5 years leading programs or enterprise initiatives across the end-to-end process (VOC, business case, development/verification, New Product Development, sourcing/APQP, launch, VA/VE).
- Proven outcomes in AI/automation of business processes (intelligent workflow, agentic orchestration, or similar), with governance experience.
- DFSS Black Belt or Master Black Belt preferred.
- Certification in AI/automation of business processes (intelligent workflow, agentic orchestration, or similar) preferred
- Product Development & Process Governance: Solid grasp of product development frameworks (stage-gate or similar) and how to maintain standard processes. Ability to govern process adoption: readiness checks, decision rights, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Own the standard process. Maintain and improve enterprise standard work for product development execution (e.g., Eaton PROLaunch 2.0), including governance structures (steering committees, standard work councils), decision rights, training, and readiness/audit mechanisms.
- Lead continuous improvement. Use Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Advanced Product Quality Planning / Production Part Approval Process (APQP/PPAP), Product Design Scorecard (PDSC), and data driven methods to raise capability, yield, and speed; standardize what works and retire what doesn’t.
- Embed AI as the next phase. Drive an AI capability lifecycle (discover design pilot scale improve) for business processes (plan/review workflows, quality artifacts, knowledge retrieval, governance reporting), with clear guardrails for safety, risk, cost, and value—in tight partnership with IT. Scope excludes design automation (CAD/FEA/simulation), owned by Digital Engineering; ensure robust collaboration/handshakes.
- When needed, design lightweight digital tools (e.g., Product Design Scorecard, Activity Matrix) to close process/governance gaps and scale across businesses.
- Connect to portfolio & profit planning. Tie process excellence to budget priorities; partner with Program/Portfolio management to prioritize initiatives and make benefits realization visible.
- Align with the digital thread. Synchronize process changes with PLM (Enovia)/EIM/MBSE roadmaps; quantify productivity impact from data/automation.
- Lead through influence. Stand up communities of practice; coach functional leaders; mentor EFE team members in Pune; drive communications and change management for adoption and sustainment.
Other
- Travel is expected to be up to 25%.
- Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related from an accredited institution.
- International and domestic travel will be required
- For candidates in the US: Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.
