Technical Director Fire & Intrusion

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For our Fire Product Line global team, we are seeking a Technical Director, Fire & Intrusion. The role is offered in a hybrid setup for our offices in Riom/France and Cwmbran/UK, with up to 25% travel required.

• Lead and manage the Fire, Intrusion, and Notification R&D specialist team, including Fire Devices and Systems product architects and regulatory specialists, across all Life Safety locations (Cwmbran, Riom, Longbranch, Sarasota, Mitcheldean, and Doncaster).
• Define and deploy product-line technology roadmaps aligned with overall product line strategy and business roadmaps.
• Work closely with Product Management, Business Development, and Commercial teams to ensure strong market and customer alignment.
• Collaborate with common engineering teams on product-line-specific requirements, customer feedback, and product enhancements.
• Review all projects to ensure products are designed to meet customer and market requirements while achieving target cost, budget, and profit objectives.
• Ensure the sustainment and competitiveness of existing products throughout their lifecycle.
• Define and drive the VAVE pipeline to maintain cost competitiveness across the product line.
• Work closely with Project Managers to monitor delivery timelines committed to the market.
• Drive fair and effective project prioritization to balance resources across Life Safety product lines.
• Ensure current and future compliance of the Fire, Intrusion, and Notification portfolio with applicable regulations, standards, norms, and legislation.
• Partner with testing and qualification teams to assure product quality and compliance.
• Foster a culture of innovation, technical thought leadership, and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity and environmental requirements.
• Own intellectual property protection related to the Fire product line.
• Provide dotted-line supervision of engineering teams located at the same site.
• Establish and maintain strong collaboration with other engineering leaders within Life Safety and across Eaton.
• Regularly review and optimize resource allocation across product-line-specific projects.
• Encourage consistent application of common product development and ProLaunch processes across all developments.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering.
• Minimum of 10 years experience, including multi-site engineering leadership within a global, matrix-based organization.
• Deep domain expertise in Fire Detection and Intrusion systems.
• Excellent organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Proven ability to plan, priorities, and manage multiple workstreams effectively.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work efficiently in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team.
• Flexible working solutions (remote, flexible working hours, compressed week, part time etc.).
• Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible.
• 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.
• Reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies.
• We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program; it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen.

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