Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Join Our TeamWe're looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.In this role, your ideas, leadership, and problem-solving skills build meaningful change every day. You'll lead and support cross-functional teams while helping keep our manufacturing operations running smoothly, safely, and efficiently. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll partner closely with production, engineering, and maintenance to improve processes, support growth, and solve real-world challenges.Your responsibilities include:Managing and developing a diverse team of supervisors and managers, equipping them with the skills and cultural attitude needed to maintain a safe and efficient working environment.Identifying and implementing innovative manufacturing solutions, coordinating project management for multiple concurrent projects, and driving the team to provide concepts, value justification, and budgets for proposed automation.Developing and maintaining a continuously improving complete maintenance program that optimizes safety performance, asset utilization, cost-effectiveness, and quality, while meeting or exceeding business key results.Providing direction and mentorship to your direct reports, evaluating their performance, and assisting in their career development.Leading equipment evaluations and ensuring measurement criteria meet all site requirements, including ergonomics, environmental impact, and capacity improvement.Devising novel ways to improve manufacturing processes, reduce waste, and improve efficiency using Lean Manufacturing/Ergonomic Manufacturing techniques.Partnering with campus leaders, site leadership, functional teams, and value stream teams to complete transformation plans and cost reduction initiatives.Implementing and optimizing predictive and preventive maintenance strategies for a premier reliability program.Driving reliability metrics in the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program to achieve significant improvements, such as Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).You have:B.S. in engineering field or equivalent experience with evidence of outstanding ability.10+ years of manufacturing engineering experience, preferably in fabrication, welding, brazing, CNC, custom automation or press environment with 3+ years in a supervisory or management role.Expertise in Lean Manufacturing principles and structured problem solving (e.g., 8D, A3) preferred.Experience working in continuous improvement environmentData analytic mindset with ability to make data driven decisionsA commitment to continuous learning and staying current with emerging technology trendsWe have:A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day.nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at to strengthen communities where our employees live and work.We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide.Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money.Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We're known for being:Innovative & adaptableDedicated to absolute integrityFocused on the customer firstRespectful and team orientedOptimistic and energizingAccountable for performanceBenefits to support the lives of our employees.Benefit OverviewAt nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.