Citing ‘efficiency’ needs, Irish company to close North Charlotte plant and end 76 jobs

Irish manufacturing company Eaton is shutting down its North Charlotte facility, resulting in 76 job cuts.

The layoffs at 5910 Long Creek Park Drive will be effective Aug. 29, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act received Monday by the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The facility assembles residential electric metering products, the company said Wednesday in a statement to The Charlotte Observer.

The job cuts will begin in March and the facility will close by Aug. 30, Eaton said. Employees were notified in November that operations at the Charlotte site were moving to other Eaton facilities. Workers may apply for positions at other Eaton facilities.

The closure is due to operations restructuring “for efficiency and cost,” Eaton human resource manager Elsa Mesele and program manager Thomas Iseman said in the report.

Eaton makes products for several industries, including data center, utility, aerospace and transportation, according to the company’s website. The company is based in Dublin with its U.S. headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.

Eaton has has about 4,000 employees in North Carolina at 16 facilities, the company told the Observer.

Eaton was founded in 1911 and has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange for more than a century, according to the company. It reported revenues of $23.2 billion in 2023 and serves customers in more than 160 countries.

This story was originally published January 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM with the headline "Citing ‘efficiency’ needs, Irish company to close North Charlotte plant and end 76 jobs."