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