Manufacturing Engineering Manager

nVent • Solon, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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: 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.

Requirements

• 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 environment
• Data analytic mindset with ability to make data driven decisions
• A commitment to continuous learning and staying current with emerging technology trends

Responsibilities

• 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).

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager