Painter

Painter

We'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.

As a Painter at nVent Management Company, you will play a crucial role in preparing custom switchgear products and surfaces for flawless coating treatments and applications. This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a manufacturing role where your skills will contribute to crafting world-class products in our Oshkosh facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of the Job:

1. Apply various types of paint using gravity feed, premix, 2KS, and Pressure Pot HVLP equipment.
2. Use measuring equipment such as wet MIL thickness gauges, dry MIL thickness gauges, zahn cups, and carefully handle urethanes and epoxies.
3. Follow verbal directions and written specifications to complete written production records and read blueprints accurately.
4. Mask parts of components such as bearings, bushings, and rub strips that should not be painted.
5. Perform daily cleaning and maintenance activities on all painting equipment to ensure efficient performance.

Qualifications:

To excel in this role, you must be able to perform each essential duty exceptionally well. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for success.

• Regularly talk and hear; stand; walk; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb ladders or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and often lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Perform painting tasks in a warm environment.

Educational Background and Professional Experience:

• High school diploma or GED, or equivalent experience, required.
• At least one year of industrial paint experience is essential.
• A comparable mix of education and experience will be taken into account.
• Experience with a fast paced washer is a plus.

WE 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

• Commitment 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 & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

  Benefit Overview

  At 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.

  At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other's authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.