Electrical 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:

• Lead a team of electrical engineers responsible for designing control systems for a diverse portfolio of cooling solutions serving data center markets.
• Lead and supervise engineering personnel and external engineering partners throughout all design and build phases to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Coordinate and balance workloads across internal and external resources to complete scheduled engineering activities.
• Develop, motivate, and support a high-performing team that consistently meets or exceeds performance expectations.
• Coordinate and review project design decisions with staff engineers and management.
• Monitor and manage budgets, schedules, and control system designs for customer-ordered and internally developed products.
• Establish and maintain development schedules, test specifications, and validation protocols.
• Oversee prototyping and testing activities.
• Direct external activities, including regulatory and third-party testing.
• Maintain customer engagement through meetings, presentations, and technical discussions.
• Partner closely with process development and tooling teams to provide required engineering support.
• Promote best practices to strengthen staff technical depth, ensure responsive operational support, and enable continuous process improvement.
• Foster a collaborative team environment through open communication, proactive problem identification, and effective resolution.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Ideally 7+ years of relevant engineering experience, with a focus on developing and deploying embedded control systems.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with a proven track record of successfully leading and developing teams, ideally including coordination with remotely located partners.
• Experience specifying, developing, maintaining, and managing the deployment of embedded control systems, including controller design, component selection, programming, display system integration, testing, and commissioning.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to coordinate team activities, negotiate requirements, and remain flexible to accommodate changes in scope and direction.
• Ability to travel regularly as required, up to 15%.

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 www.nvent.com.

• 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

Pay Transparency
 
nVent’s pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee’s work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply.
 
Compensation Range:

Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

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.