Job Description

Eaton’s PCD Power Components Division is currently seeking a Continuous Improvement (CI) Leader to join the team at the Horseheads, NY location. Relocation assistance is available!

The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year.

Please 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.

What you’ll do

The Continuous Improvement (CI) Leader defines and drives the strategic direction for operational excellence at the site. This role ensures the effective deployment of Lean and Eaton Business System (EBS) principles, prioritizes high-impact initiatives, and removes roadblocks to deliver measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and culture. When leading CI resources, the role coaches and aligns them to business priorities, ensuring execution of sustainable improvements.

Essential Functions:

• Drive CI Culture and Strategy: Lead the development and deployment of a continuous improvement culture across HHDS, aligning initiatives with business priorities and High Five metrics. Prioritize and align CI initiatives to short- and long-term business goals (Safety, Quality, OTD, Cost, Productivity, PPM, CONC).
• Lean Deployment: Drive implementation of Lean and EBS tools (VSM, 5S, TPM, Standard Work, Pull Systems, SUR, BPS) to improve operational performance. Develop and govern the annual Kaizen roadmap, ensures resource alignment, removes roadblocks, and tracks execution vs. plan.
• Coaching: Coach leadership, engineers, and supervisors on Lean principles to build sustainable CI capability across all levels of the organization.
• Performance Management and Assessment: Establish and maintain key CI performance metrics and dashboards to monitor progress and drive accountability. Lead CI Council, OpA self-assessment, ECIS self-assessment and the Strategy Deployment Process.
• Operational Excellence: Partner with manufacturing, quality, and engineering to improve processes, increase throughput, and optimize resource utilization. Drive internal and external benchmarking, collaborating across Eaton sites and functions to implement best practices. Maintain site layouts (AutoCAD) and drive improvements to material and process flow. Ensure CI activities comply with MESH requirements and promote a safe working environment.

What will make you successful?

An ideal candidate strong facilitation, coaching, and leadership skills to engage teams and drive a culture of continuous improvement across the organization. You bring proven experience in Lean and CI methodologies, consistently delivering measurable results. You actively foster employee engagement, empowering all levels of the organization to participate in initiatives and sustain improvements, driving a shared commitment to continuous improvement. We are looking for candidates who are diverse in their backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and who can bring fresh and innovative ideas to our team.

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related industrial technology field from an accredited institution
• Minimum 3 years experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with Lean and a demonstrated history of successfully leading and facilitating changes that involve all levels of employees with measurable results.
• Proficient in core concepts of Value Stream, 5S, Standard Work, Kaizen Techniques, Visual shop floor concepts and other lean tools.
• Must be highly proficient in the Microsoft Office suite programs and AutoCAD
• 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:

• LSS Green Belt
• Knowledge of a wide variety of manufacturing processes including assembly (manual and automated)
• Experience working in a unionized environment

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