Regional Operations Manager - Digital Integration Solutions
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 19, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2026. Eaton scores A on the Alion truth index.
As a Regional Operations Manager for Digital Integrations Solutions, you will play a critical leadership role in driving the success and growth of our business. You will be responsible for delivering operational excellence, accelerating profitable growth, enhancing customer satisfaction, and ensuring safe, high-quality project execution. You'll focus on developing talent, improving utilization and project performance, and deliver consistent business results across the Southeast region. This is a hybrid role with 25% anticipated travel.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 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:
- Lead DIS growth strategy across digital solutions, engineering services, automation, and recurring service offerings.
- Develop profit plans, forecasts, and business strategies based on market, customer, and technology trends.
- Partner with sales teams to identify opportunities, support customer engagement, develop proposals, and align operational capacity with regional growth objectives.
- Drive financial and operational performance across projects, backlog, utilization, margins, inventory, and subcontractors.
- Ensure project execution meets quotation, contract, customer, safety, and profitability expectations.
- Recruit, develop, engage, and retain a skilled technical and leadership workforce.
- Champion a zero-incident safety culture and ensure compliance with Eaton, customer, and regulatory EHS requirements
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience working in the electrical industry.
- Minimum 3 years leading teams or business operations
- 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 H1B, H1-B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
- No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of the locations listed on the job posting will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA, Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Management, or related technical/business discipline.
- Professional Engineer license, equivalent technical certification, or advanced industry certification.
- Experience managing a technical service, systems integration, engineering services, or field operations business with P&L responsibility.
- Experience leading geographically dispersed technical teams, people leaders, project managers, and field-based employees.
- Experience with power systems automation, digitalization, cybersecurity, recurring service offerings, energy management, or advanced power monitoring solutions.
- General Contractor’s License, Electrical Contractor’s License, or comparable credentials relevant to field service execution.
Position Criteria:
- Knowledge of power distribution, power management, automation, HMI, PLCs, monitoring software, and digital solutions.
- Ability to lead business growth, customer development, sales strategy, forecasting, and market planning.
- Experience managing financial and operational results, including profit planning, utilization, backlog, margins, and project execution.
- Ability to lead and develop technical professionals, project leaders, and people leaders across multiple locations.
- Strong communication skills with customers, leaders, sales, engineering, technicians, contractors, and cross-functional teams.
- Strong customer relationship, negotiation, escalation management, service recovery, and decision-making skills.
- Working knowledge of EHS requirements, field safety practices, risk mitigation, audits, and electrical work environments.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement, standardization, technical development, process discipline, and organizational effectiveness.
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