HR Director, Residential and Wiring Devices

Eaton is seeking a Human Resources Director for its Residential and Wiring Devices (RWD) business within the Electrical Sector Americas region. The position will be based in Pittsburgh, PA, and requires approximately 25% travel.

What you’ll do

The Human Resources Director serves as a member of the RWD senior leadership team and as a trusted advisor to the Senior Vice President and General Manager. This leader is accountable for translating the business strategy into an integrated workforce, organization, talent, and culture strategy for a business with approximately $1.4 billion in revenue, eight manufacturing facilities, and more than 5,200 employees across the United States, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and China.

The HR Director will lead people and organization strategies that enable growth, productivity, operational excellence, employee engagement, and customer performance. This position reports directly to the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the RWD business and functionally to the Group Vice President of Human Resources for ARS.

Essential Functions

• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the Senior Vice President and General Manager and the RWD senior leadership team, shaping business decisions through a people, organization, and culture lens.
• Translate the business strategy into an integrated workforce and organization strategy, including long-range workforce planning, organization design, capability building, succession, and talent deployment.
• Lead organization and leadership effectiveness efforts that enable growth, productivity, customer performance, and operational excellence across the business.
• Build a strong and diverse leadership pipeline and robust succession plans for critical roles; ensure disciplined talent assessment, development, deployment, and retention.
• Lead the people aspects of business transformation, restructuring, and other significant organizational changes, helping leaders and employees navigate change effectively.
• Strengthen the hourly workforce strategy, including attraction, retention, frontline leadership capability, employee relations, and development of critical manufacturing skills.
• Use workforce insights, employee listening, and analytics to identify risks, evaluate organizational health, inform decisions, and measure the business impact of people strategies.
• Lead, develop, and align the RWD Human Resources organization across countries and sites, including direct and functional reports, establishing clear accountability, building capability, and enabling consistent execution while responding to local business needs.
• Build organizational capability through effective talent acquisition, performance management, leadership development, succession planning, career development, and retention strategies.
• Partner with Compensation to shape and deploy competitive compensation, reward, and recognition programs that reinforce a pay-for-performance culture and align with enterprise policy.
• Foster leader ownership and accountability for the employee experience, talent outcomes, culture, and organizational health.
• Promote positive employee and labor relations and ensure employment practices comply with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies across the business footprint.
• Partner with business, site, and HR leaders to develop effective communication and engagement strategies and convert employee listening insights into measurable action plans.
• Champion Eaton’s culture and operating system, ensuring people and organization priorities support strategic and annual business objectives.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible Human Resources experience, including significant experience as a senior HR business partner supporting a complex, multi-site organization.
• Demonstrated experience leading Human Resources teams and influencing senior business leaders in a matrixed environment.
• Experience leading HR for a business unit, organization or division.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Human Resources, business, organizational development, or a related discipline and/or a recognized HR certification.
• Senior-level HR leadership experience within a complex manufacturing, industrial, or field-based business with both hourly and salaried populations.
• Experience supporting operations across multiple countries, cultures, and manufacturing sites.
• Experience leading the people aspects of growth, transformation, restructuring, or significant operational improvement initiatives.

Position Success Criteria

• Working knowledge of applicable local, state, federal, and provincial employment laws and employment practices.
• Demonstrated expertise in workforce strategy, organization design, leadership and organization effectiveness, succession planning, and change leadership.
• Strong labor and employee relations capability, with a record of building constructive relationships and strengthening leader accountability.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect people and organization strategies to growth, productivity, customer, and operating performance outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to use workforce analytics, employee insights, and business data to diagnose issues, influence decisions, and measure impact.
• Exceptional executive communication, business writing, facilitation, and coaching skills.
• Proven ability to lead, align, empower, and develop geographically dispersed HR teams.
• Strong drive for results, sound judgment, and the ability to lead cross-functional priorities with urgency in a complex matrixed environment.

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.

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 $182000 - $266000 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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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.