Quality Engineer - EMEA MES Deployment & Site Readiness

What you’ll do:

The Quality Engineer will lead quality readiness for MES deployments across EMEA manufacturing sites, ensuring quality processes, data, controls, testing, and users are prepared for successful go-live. Support deployments through hypercare and stabilization while ensuring compliance with global MES and quality standards. This role would require 60% travel.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead quality readiness assessments for MES deployments, identifying gaps, risks, actions, and site readiness requirements.
• Translate quality requirements into MES workflows, master data, controls, test scenarios, reports, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure readiness of key quality processes including inspection, nonconformance, traceability/genealogy, rework, scrap, tester data, and First Pass Yield (FPY).
• Coordinate quality User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring effective test coverage, defect resolution, retesting, and readiness before go-live.
• Provide hands-on quality support during deployment, go-live, and hypercare, ensuring rapid containment and resolution of quality-impacting issues.
• Partner with Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, MES Process Owners, IT, and implementation teams to resolve process, data, integration, and system issues.
• Drive root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions for recurring defects, data inconsistencies, workflow failures, and integration issues.
• Support MES expansion to additional production areas and continuously improve deployment standards using lessons learned and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical, Production Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5–8 years of experience in Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Operational Excellence, Digital Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or related areas.
• Practical experience with quality assurance/control, inspection and testing, nonconformance, traceability, PFMEA, Control Plans, and structured problem solving.
• Experience with MES, ERP, QMS, PLM, or similar manufacturing-system deployments strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of APQP/PPAP, ISO 9001, quality auditing, and manufacturing quality requirements.
• Experience with MES deployment activities such as readiness assessments, data preparation, UAT, go-live, hypercare, and stabilization.
• Experience with SAP and Dassault Systèmes Apriso preferred.
• Fluent business English; additional EMEA languages are an advantage.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of manufacturing quality assurance and quality control.
• Strong knowledge of traceability, genealogy, nonconformance, rework, scrap, tester data, and FPY.
• Strong quality risk assessment, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action capabilities.
• Ability to translate quality requirements and risks into MES processes and system requirements.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Hands-on, shop-floor-oriented approach with the ability to remain structured during go-live and quality escalations.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence cross-functional and multi-site teams.
• Clear communication and collaboration with operators, engineers, Quality, Manufacturing, and IT teams.
• Comfortable with changing deployment priorities and frequent travel across EMEA.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Flexible working solutions
• Excellent working environment – safety and ethics are important for us
• Culture & Values – we are more than the products we invent and produce – the way we do business is just as important. At Eaton, our values and culture define who we are – both individually and as an organization – and direct our activities every day
• Learning & Development - we invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities, made available through Eaton University

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.

Join Eaton, a global leader where equality and inclusivity are at the heart of our mission. Here, everyone is valued and belongs. Be part of a team that delivers cutting-edge, energy-efficient solutions, making a tangible impact on the world. We empower our customers to manage electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical energy more effectively, safely, and sustainably. At Eaton, we’re dedicated to enhancing quality of life and protecting the environment with our innovative energy management technologies and services.