Vice President of Operations - PCS

Career Opportunities: Vice President of Operations - PCS (75098)

Requisition ID 75098-Posted 10/15/2026

Eaton’s Protection, Controls & Solutions Group is hiring for a Vice President of Operations. This position is based at Eaton’s Pittsburgh, PA location. Relocation assistance is offered and 50 percent travel is anticipated.
The Vice President of Operations for PCS will lead Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering and Industry 4.0 Initiatives across the group. This position develops and executes short and long-term plans to achieve the key operational objectives and annual profit plan for the business, impacting $4B in revenue and $600M inventory as well as the long term strategic plan. The role holds functional leadership over multiple division’s operations across the American continent with greater focus on customer satisfaction, operational excellence, business growth, and delivering world class performance levels.

• Develop and lead initiatives in alignment with the corporate and functional strategies to improve operational excellence and achieve annual profit plan and strategic plan objectives, customer satisfaction and growth.
• Drive the manufacturing strategy for the Group and its divisions, optimizing capacity, utilization and footprint strategy for sites and development of key manufacturing technologies advancement.
• Establish targets and track key performance indicators across the group. Ensure prompt and accurate reporting systems on all aspects of operations, leveraging EPM, Balanced Score Card and other intelligence solutions.
• Proactively champion Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS), driving a zero-incident culture.
• Owns and drives a zero-defect culture and deploying a quality assurance system throughout the group to ensure customer satisfaction, disciplined root-cause and corrective action and lowest cost of non-conformance
• Lead and support implementation of the Global product lines (GPLs) Manufacturing/OPEX strategies. Partner across global teams in support of Eaton overall growth
• Create a culture of exceeding customer expectations, ensuring that the organization is highly responsive to customer needs and issues.
• Drive change through improved organizational capability, ensuring motivation and retention of a high-performance management team and workforce.
• Continuously improve operations through application of the Eaton Business System with a strong focus on Lean Culture, technology enablement and I-4.0 strategies.
• Demonstrate a leadership style that perpetuates the Eaton Culture Model and the Eaton Code of Ethics.

Qualifications:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required; MBA preferred.
• Minimum fifteen (15) years’ experience with progressive levels of responsibility in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, OPEX for a global manufacturing leader in a similar scope/scale role.
• Plant manager and multi-site management experience.
• Experience leading operations for a multibillion dollar business, division and/or organization with geographically dispersed locations.
• 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.

Position Success Criteria:

• Demonstrated success in driving zero incident culture, with employee ownership of EHS.
• Knowledge and experience with multiple ERPs and conversions preferred.
• Strong financial and business acumen; prior profit and loss responsibility required.
• Track record of successful leadership, performance results, organizational development, and operational improvement.
• Proven track record in building high-performance teams, leading cross-functionally, developing and retaining employees, and driving organizational change.
• Knowledge of current technologies in manufacturing (assembly and fabrication), engineering, materials management/inventory control, distribution and logistics, purchasing, quality assurance systems processes and practices.

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At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $242000 - $355000 a year. This role is also eligible for a variable incentive program. 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.

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