Quality Engineer Manager – Global Data Center Segment Full Time

Dubai serves as a strategic hub for Eaton’s Middle East operations, bringing together commercial, engineering, manufacturing, and support teams within a globally connected business environment. Building on more than 40 years in the region, Eaton recently announced the development of a new sustainable campus in Dubai, reinforcing our long‑term investment in growth, collaboration, and capability building.

Eaton’s Global Data Center Segment is focused on helping data centers realize real business benefits today while optimizing their operations for the future. With the rise of big data, edge computing and cloud, data centers are under pressure to be more high-performing, sustainable and cost-effective than ever, without compromising resilience or security. At the same time, new opportunities and revenue streams require faster speed-to-market. With our digital intelligence, world-class cyber-secure products and services, reliable, compatible solutions and engineering expertise, we help data centers realize real business benefits today while optimizing their operations for the future.

Within this segment, Eaton has an opening for a Quality Manager – Global Data Center Segment. This position is a senior, globally accountable leader that is leader responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the end‑to‑end quality framework for post‑order execution across Eaton’s Global Data Center Segment.

Operating within the Post Order Center of Excellence (CoE), this role ensures that quality is designed into execution—not inspected in after the fact—by establishing global standards, assurance mechanisms, testing rigor, and process discipline that scale across regions, customers, and service offers. The position plays a critical role in enabling consistent, reliable, and repeatable customer outcomes while supporting Eaton’s growth with hyperscale and colocation data center customers worldwide. This role is based in Dubai, serving as a global coordination hub, and works across regions, time zones, and functions to drive a “one Eaton” quality mindset for post‑order delivery.

What You’ll Do

Global Quality Strategy & Governance

• Define and own the global post-order quality strategy for the Global Data Center Segment, aligned with segment priorities, customer expectations, and Eaton enterprise standards.
• Establish and maintain a single global quality framework covering assurance, testing, process compliance, and continuous improvement across regions.
• Partner with the Post Order Director, Services, Engineering, PMO, OPEX, and regional execution leaders to embed quality expectations into operating models and execution rhythms.

Quality Assurance & Testing

• Lead global assurance and testing methodologies to validate that post-order deliverables, services, and execution outcomes meet defined quality, safety, and reliability standards.
• Ensure quality gates, reviews, and acceptance criteria are consistently applied across complex, multi-region data center programs.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions for systemic quality issues, partnering cross-functionally to prevent recurrence.

Process Quality & Standardization

• Own global process quality for post-order execution, ensuring that standardized processes are clearly defined, documented, deployed, and adhered to.
• Work closely with the Quality Analyst – Process and OPEX partners to identify gaps, simplify workflows, and eliminate variation that negatively impacts customer outcomes.
• Support the evolution of global processes as services scale, new offers are introduced, or customer requirements change.

Performance Management & Continuous Improvement

• Define and monitor global quality KPIs, dashboards, and review cadences that provide transparency into performance, risk, and trends.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing defects, rework, cycle time, and execution risk while improving customer satisfaction.
• Escalate critical quality risks with clear data, options, and recommendations to senior leadership.

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and develop a small but highly impactful global quality team, including the Quality Analyst – Assurance & Testing and Quality Analyst – Process.
• Build quality capability across the broader Post Order organization by influencing leaders and teams beyond direct reporting lines.
• Foster a culture where quality, safety, and accountability are core expectations—not trade-offs for speed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Quality, Operations, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in quality management, operational excellence, or execution leadership within complex, global, engineered-to-order or services-led environments.

Skills

• Experience supporting data center, critical power, or infrastructure services.
• Formal quality or continuous improvement certifications (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, ISO‑related frameworks).
• Experience working in or leading teams based in the Middle East or other global hubs.
• Experience driving standard work and continuous improvement across regions (process discipline + pragmatism).

Why Join Eaton

• Competitive compensation and benefits, aligned with your experience and impact.
• Opportunity to work on challenging, high‑impact projects within a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
• Your aspirations matter – Eaton actively supports internal mobility and promotes from within whenever possible.
• Your growth matters – We invest in long‑term development through continuous learning, upskilling, and global programs via Eaton University.
• Your contributions matter – Reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the heart of what we do, driving meaningful impact on people’s lives and the environment.
• Your wellbeing matters – Health, safety, and wellness are a priority. At Eaton, wellbeing goes beyond programs, empowering employees with the tools and environment to thrive.

Living And Working In Dubai

Dubai is an internationally connected city that offers strong professional opportunities within a truly global environment. Living and working in Dubai means being part of a diverse, forward‑looking business community, supported by modern infrastructure, excellent connectivity, and a well‑established expatriate ecosystem.

At Eaton, employees based in Dubai are part of a stable, well‑governed organization that brings together global teams, clear ways of working, and the flexibility needed to support both performance and long‑term career development.

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