Maintenance & Manufacturing Engineering Manager

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.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

• Accountable for multiple teams and functional areas along with leading multiple supervisors and managers. Select, develop, and administer a staff with appropriate training, skills, and cultural attitude to maintain all equipment and facilities infrastructure in a safe and efficient working condition.

• Find opportunities for manufacturing solutions. Drives the team to provide concepts, ROI justification, and budgets for proposed automation.

• Develop, implement, and maintain a continuously improving integrated maintenance program that optimizes safety performance, asset utilization, cost-effectiveness, and quality objectives to reduce unscheduled downtime, while minimizing maintenance costs.

• Provide direction and guidance to direct reports and evaluates performance and assist in career development.

• Lead safety awareness and implement new and innovative techniques to assure a safe working environment.

• Explore and supervise new processes and procedures to support expanding requirements on cutting-edge technology and product densification.

• Exchange knowledge and information with other nVent facilities to ensure standard processes are shared throughout the organization.

• Develop methods to improve manufacturing processes, product flow, and reduce waste using Lean Manufacturing/Ergonomic Manufacturing techniques and culture in the search for productivity improvements focused on cost savings.

• Drive waste elimination culture across all processes and functions.

• Partner with campus leaders, site leadership, functional teams, and value stream teams of the site(s) transformation plans and cost reduction funnel.

• Lead change management activities by creating and implementing transition plans to move from the current to the future state.

• Develop, evaluate, and implement appropriate preventive maintenance strategies and techniques for a premier reliability program.

• Drive reliability programs including predictive and preventive maintenance optimization, and effective utilization of resources by pushing the existing time-based PM's toward condition-based maintenance.

• Drive Reliability Metrics in the TPM program to drive reliability improvements, such as Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).

YOU HAVE:

• B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering preferred, or the equivalent in experience.

• 8+ years of maintenance manager experience and/or experience with reliability analysis, extracting and analyzing performance data from a CMMS, and leading teams toward equipment improvement targets with

• 5+ years in supervision/management preferred.

• Manufacturing engineering experience is a plus.

• General knowledge of LEAN fundamentals; strong LEAN knowledge is desired.

• Demonstrated results improving efficiency and driving organizational change.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills, both written and spoken.

• Ability to positively motivate and mentor employees at all levels of the organization to lead change.

• Experience with TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) preferred.

• Strong Technical skills (Robotics, PLC, CAD, etc.).

• Experience with Facilities Management.

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

  • At nVent, we connect and protect a more sustainable and electrified world with inventive electrical solutions. We’re a nearly $3 billion high-performance electrical company with a dedicated team of 10,000+ people at more than 130 sites around the world. Our solutions deliver value to industrial, commercial, residential, energy and infrastructure customers, providing mission critical solutions that improve performance, lower costs and reduce downtime.
  • We design, manufacture, market, install and service high-performance products and solutions that connect and protect mission critical equipment, buildings and essential processes. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, RAYCHEM, SCHROFF and TRACER.

• 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

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.

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