It Program Manager Jobs in Kent, OH (NOW HIRING)

Eaton's Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Senior Growth Sites-Front End Engineering Program Manager. This position can sit out of one of the following locations: Beachwood OH, Galesburg MI, Houston TX, Menomonee Falls WI, Moon Township PA, or Raleigh NC.The expected annual salary range for this role is $165000 - $242000 a year. This position 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.
What you'll do:
We are seeking an expert-level Senior Program Manager with broad experience in program management. The ideal candidate will translate business or functional vision into plans and guide their execution, participating in the development of business or functional strategy and being accountable for results that impact the entire business or function. Senior Program Manager will be responsible for the most complex programs in the IT Portfolio.
This role sits within IT Operations & Enterprise PMO, providing the operating backbone for how we organize work to support Eaton's Key Growth Sites. This role is responsible for organizing and scaling our operating model across our Key Strategic Growth (KSG) sites (i.e. Asheville → El Paso 2 → Greenwood → Omaha). The Senior Program Manager owns the end-to-end Front-End Engineering value stream (Quote → Engineering → Release) across these sites - one roadmap, one KPI set, one outcome story - scaling proven solutions site to site rather than running each site as standalone project work.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and implement program plans and strategies that align with organizational goals.
Lead and manage complex program activities, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
Collaborate with the CI, digital, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment of program initiatives.
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of program strategies and make necessary adjustments.
Provide support and guidance to team members to help them achieve program objectives.
Communicate program initiatives and their impact to all stakeholders effectively.
Coordinate Value-Stream based Delivery:
- Drive one outcome story across the Quote → Engineering → Release roadmap, milestones, and KPI performance across all the growth sites, rather than site-by-site execution.
- Partner with CI and Digital (IT) delivery teams to organize the work to deliver the front-end digital backbone - configure/quote-to-order, engineering automation, and PLM/BOM-master integrity. Leverage key resource teams such as Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, and Integrated Ops to drive outcomes (IT delivers the digital backbone; Integrated Ops defines the process).
- Plan out the forward-deployment plan for where we take a capability next, in partnership with capability owners and BRMs.
- Ensure our teams create repeatable standard work so it can be scaled to prioritized growth sites; manage cross-site sequencing and dependencies.
- Partner in the operating model - BRMs own funding, business prioritization, and benefit realization; CI designs the process improvements; and site leads deploy and sustain. You own coordination, delivery, KPI attainment, and the dependencies between them.
- Track business value and benefit realization (roadmap readiness, engineering DPU, design-to-release cycle time); communicate via monthly steering committees and report progress and risk on the joint business and IT leadership cadence.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Provide governance for standard work and tools for tracking all digital and CI growth site work at a program level
- Owns and arbitrates dependencies across the three value streams, with authority to re-sequence delivery and reallocate execution capacity when streams contend for the same site, resource, or window.
- Owns the cross-stream delivery steering across value streams and is the single escalation and decision authority for execution issues spanning the three streams (delivery steering, not portfolio governance)
- Creates the integrated roadmap and coordinates cross-stream prioritization.
- Owns steering governance and is the escalation authority across all three streams.
Job Responsibilities:
Key Skills:
Advanced Leadership: Exceptional leadership skills to manage complex program activities and guide program teams.
Strategic Planning: Expertise in developing and executing strategic program plans.
Change Management: Proficiency in managing organizational change and ensuring smooth transitions.
Conflict Resolution: Strong skills in resolving conflicts and addressing challenges that may arise during program execution.
Innovation: Ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement within program initiatives.
Influence: Ability to influence and persuade stakeholders to support program objectives.
Decision-Making: Strong decision-making skills to make informed choices that impact program success.
Work Organization: Ability to organize work that is already in motion and make thoughtful changes to accelerate outcomes.
Matrixed Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization.
Expected Outcomes and Success Metrics:
Successful Implementation of Complex Program Initiatives: Ensure that all complex program initiatives are implemented successfully, meeting the defined objectives and timelines.
High Stakeholder Satisfaction: Maintain high levels of satisfaction among stakeholders by effectively communicating program initiatives and their impact, and addressing any concerns promptly.
Effective Collaboration: Achieve seamless integration and alignment of complex program initiatives with the CI, digital, and operations teams.
Continuous Improvement: Continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of program strategies, making necessary adjustments to improve outcomes.
Qualifications:
Education level required
Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution. Master's degree is preferred
Technical knowledge
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in program management or a related role.
Strong understanding of program management principles, methodologies, and tools.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
Certification in program management (e.g., PMP, PgMP).
Growth Sites value-stream knowledge:
- Manufacturing/operations IT delivery; Engineer-to-Order (ETO) value-stream understanding (order → engineering → fab → assembly → ship).
- Familiarity with configure/quote-to-order, engineering automation, and PLM/BOM-master data integrity.
- Continuous-improvement fluency - A3/DMAIC, value-stream mapping, lean/EBS, root-cause problem solving.
- Tech-savvy and AI-first - efficient with modern AI productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Claude) to accelerate analysis, documentation, and delivery.
- Demonstrated multi-site deployment and scaling of a proven solution across plants.
Skills:
Soft skills
Strong communications skills, able to work on a matrix organization; comfortable working with and coordinating cross-functional teams. Work under pressure. Results driven. Influencer. Pragmatic. Able to simplify complex information translating into business terms
Expected competencies - CI-first and AI-first: a continuous-improvement background and mindset (A3, lean, DMAIC; go to the floor and fix at the source) combined with a digital, tech-savvy, efficient, data-driven way of working - fluent with modern AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot and Claude - that turns improvements into repeatable, scalable digital standard work.
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