Supplier Development Engineer

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Anoka, MN
Senior level
Big Data • Hardware • Other • Energy
The Role
The Supplier Development Engineer will support sourcing leadership by engaging with suppliers, conducting evaluations, leading performance improvement initiatives, and monitoring performance to enhance supply chain resilience and efficiency. This role also involves risk analysis, supplier qualification, and maintaining quality management systems.
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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.

This role will support nVent Hoffman sourcing leadership with strategies for one of our fastest growing and high profile verticles.

What you will experience in this position:

  • Engage directly with a broad range of suppliers in multifaceted product categories supporting nVent’s mission to develop safer systems to protect critical customer equipment

  • Lead onsite evaluations of supplier operations from design control to raw materials through production and all supporting activities to delivery

  • Support global sourcing initiatives teaming with sourcing category leaders on supplier assessments, supplier transitions and supplier/product qualification

  • Evaluate and improve supplier capability to support new nVent products and programs

  • Lead supplier performance improvement initiatives, conduct supplier performance evaluations, administer supplier scorecards and participate in supplier business reviews

  • Monitor supplier performance to identify high impact areas of opportunity to drive supply base performance

  • Partner with sourcing category leaders to identify opportunities for efficiency, improved quality, better lead times, higher delivery performance, and cost reduction

  • Conduct risk analysis and implement actions to mitigate, avoid, etc. and develop recovery plans with critical suppliers to ensure supply chain resilience and rapid recovery when issues occur

  • Assist with the maintenance of our ISO 9001:2015 certified Quality Management System as it relates to Supply Management

You have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology, Engineering, Supply Management, Business, or related field is a must.

  • Ideally 5+ years of experience in Supply Management, Supplier Development, Sourcing, Supplier Quality, Quality Engineering or related experience.

  • Ability to travel up to 25%.

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 believe safer systems ensure a more secure world. We connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high-performance products and solutions for mission-critical equipment, buildings and essential processes. Our solutions are helping build a more sustainable and electrified world.
    • We are a $3.3B company with a dedicated team of more than 11,000 employees around the globe. Our comprehensive portfolio of enclosures, electrical and fastening, and thermal management solutions dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, RAYCHEM and SCHROFF.
  • 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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Top Skills

Engineering
Industrial Technology
The Company
HQ: St Louis Park, MN
10,001 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

nVent is a global leader in enclosures, electric heat-tracing solutions, complete heat-management systems and electrical and fastening solutions. Our products connect and protect our customers’ systems in facilities where the cost of failure is very high. We help customers enhance productivity and reduce their cost of ownership by simplifying installation and minimizing downtime during operation.

Just as every idea begins with a spark, we at nVent view the dawn of every sunrise as a new opportunity to ignite innovation. Our inventive solutions benefit customers around the world every day, keeping lights on, data streaming and trains running on time.

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 enclosures, electrical connections and fastening and thermal management solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

We are a $2 billion, high-performance electrical company with a dedicated team of 8,800 people at more than 130 sites around the world. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, RAYCHEM, SCHROFF and TRACER.

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