• Responsible for the overall leadership of all production and warehouse operations for the filtration division.  Includes monitoring performance and building organizational capability to achieve desired service levels to customers.
• Responsible for safety, quality, delivery, inventory and cost structure at all operations.  Includes performance management of daily metrics and guidance required to ensure compliance with Eaton policy and EBS/OpA assessments.  Requires roadmap to world-class High 5 metrics and model plant status for all sites.
• Responsible for materials strategy across the division including consignment, min/max, and late point definition strategies.  Includes expectation to leverage lean principles to drive annual reductions in inventory levels while still delivering competitive lead-times.
• Responsible for strategic sourcing including cost out, payment terms, and strategic supplier relationships.  Execute on global sourcing strategies to minimize risk to Eaton performance from the supply base.
• Responsible for the quality management system for the division, certifications, customer complaints, root cause and corrective actions both internally and with suppliers.
• Lead lean manufacturing initiatives to enhance overall effectiveness of manufacturing     operations and to reduce cost.  Deploy value stream mapping, hour-by-hour tracking, standard work, 5S, pull systems, PMs, visual management and set-up reduction at the sites. Includes building a continuous improvement culture throughout the organization.
• Responsible for deployment of capital according to approved levels in the profit plan.
• Interface with functional leaders at the Group and Corporate level to benchmark and identify and deploy best practices in the division.
• Ensure deployment of the Eaton Business System including MESH, ELSS, QMS, QFR, MMA, OpA and EBS Pull.
• Personally lead effort to achieve zero incidents at all sites in the division.
• Provide coaching and development to plant managers and functional managers.  Ensure the same for next level down in the organization.
• Support the Manufacturing Program Director to execute global manufacturing strategies that ensure optimal footprint for the division.
• Support all the operational duties of managing director for the filtration operations in Germany excluding sales and marketing which is centralized for the division.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Technical Field 
• Minimum of 10 years manufacturing experience
• Fluency in English and German
• Significant experience with day-to-day application of lean manufacturing systems including training, planning and implementation of tools
• Strong analytical skills and understanding of problem solving tools/methods (six sigma, 8D)
• Understands role of quality and variation reduction in driving operational improvement
• Understands supplier quality, tools associated with new product development and launch, quality function deployment, quality management systems (QS, TS) and cost of quality
• Strong ERP / Systems Knowledge
• In-depth knowledge of the Eaton Business System
• Strong communication skills and comfort with facilitating teams/groups and working with all levels in the organization including across cultures
• Knowledge of change management techniques and demonstrated ability to drive operational improvement
• Ability to organize and build effective teams, and motivate others and measure performance

Candidate applying to the vacancy will be subject of the background screening. – if applicable

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Job: Manufacturing & Operations

Region: Europe, Middle East, Africa
Organization: HYD FFD Fluid Filtration Division

Job Level: Director
Schedule: Full-time
Is remote work (i.e. working from home or another Eaton facility) allowed for this position?: No
Does this position offer relocation?: Relocation from within hiring country only
Travel: Yes, 50 % of the Time