Manager, Engineering Change Execution

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.

The Manager, Engineering Change Execution is the accountable owner for endtoend execution of the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process within the Systems Protection segment. This role ensures disciplined prioritization, consistent execution, and sustained performance of engineering changes that support growth, efficiency, and predictable delivery.

The role leads ECO execution across NPI, sustaining engineering, manufacturing, and operations, with an initial focus in our Anoka, MN site and scale potential tobroadersites. As adoption matures, this role is responsible for propagating standard execution practices, enabling crosssegment alignment, and supporting enterprise process transformation.

This position sits within the Systems Protection PMO and provides execution ownership, ensuring that governance, prioritization, and operational discipline are sustained over time.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

Execution Ownership & Governance

• Serve as the single execution owner for the ECO process, accountable for prioritization, sequencing, and performance outcomes

• Owns daytoday ECO execution to improve cycle time, throughput, and backlog health

• Leads governance cadence , decision discipline, and escalation mechanisms

• Ensure ECO execution integrates seamlessly with NPI, sustaining engineering, manufacturing, and VA/VE workflows

Prioritization & CrossFunctional Alignment

• Drive clear prioritization of engineering changes aligned to business, NPI, and operational needs

• Partnerwith engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, and operations to ensure execution readiness

• Champion process alignment to reduce rework, late changes, and downstream disruption

• Act as the execution interface to enterprise PLM, 3D Process, and data teams by providing structured requirements and feedback

Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Own performance metrics including cycle time, SLA adherence, throughput, and backlog aging

• Use dashboards and reviews to drive accountability and factbased decisionmaking

• Lead continuous improvement efforts to simplify workflows, strengthen handoffs, and enable parallel execution

• Ensure adoption and sustainability of tools, dashboards, and standard work

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead and develop Configuration Management Analyst teams across two sites,developing best practices and standardization for our ECO Processes

• Build execution capabilitythrough coaching, training, and deployment of standard work

• Influence without authority across engineering, operations, supply chain, and PMO teams to uphold disciplined change execution

• Enable consistency and scalability while preserving local delivery ownership

YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred

• Ideally 8+ years of experience leading engineering change, NPI execution, configuration management, or similar operational roles

• Ideally 3+ years of people leadership experience

• Demonstrated ability to lead prioritization, drive execution decisions, and influence crossfunctional teams

• Strong understanding of EBOM/MBOM structures, engineering change workflows, and product lifecycle processes

• Experience with PLM and ERP systems such as ENOVIA, SAP, or JDE

• Experience working with or supporting global engineering or manufacturing COEs preferred

• Strong communication, analytical, and problemsolving skills

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.