Engineering Operations Manager – Eaton
Eaton is seeking an Engineering Operations Manager for our Life Safety Division to be responsible for leading and executing engineering programmes focused on New Product Introduction (NPI) and Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) across the Life Safety product lines. The successful candidate will drive programme delivery, ensure alignment with business goals, and foster cross-functional collaboration across global teams .
– Leads the team in the NPI program management and VAVE functions across all Life Safety locations
• Leads the planning and execution of NPI and VAVE programs from concept to launch.
• Manages program scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation using PROLaunch methodology.
• Responsible for ensuring high quality of new products and enhanced existing products for all product lines
– Ensures compliance with engineering standards and regulatory requirements.
• Bringing in standard processes, methods and models to project management
• Building strong project managment capability within Life Safety
• Bringing in Strong Inter personal skills and a culture of on time delivery
• Bringing in engineering excellence to build discipline of on-time gates, and green metric culture to accelerate NPIs towards market launch
• Deployment of strong VAVE execution strategy, driving continuous improvement and cost optimisation
• Outside in perspective to driving innovation culture within Life Safety
– Collaborates with Product Line Managers to define technical roadmaps and prioritise engineering initiatives.
– Facilitates cross-functional team coordination across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain.
• Liase with global/EMEA Eaton program management, Engineering Functional excellence teams to ensure alignment
• Supervise (dotted) engineering teams present within the same site
• Establish and maintain an active and effective collaboration with other engineering leaders within Life Safety and within EATON.
• Encourage the teams to follow common processes of product development/Prolaunch across all developments"
Job Details
| Posted Date: | 2025-10-17 |
| Job Location: | United Arab Emirates – Dubai |
| Job Role: | Engineering |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Mid Career |
