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Senior Manager, Global Engineering Labs
Nvent
Lead global lab ops, set standards, drive testing, innovation, and talent for product development.
13d ago
$146,300 - $271,700
Expert & Leadership (13+ years), Experienced (8-12 years)
Full Time
Anoka, MN
Onsite
Company Size
12,100 Employees
Service Specialisms
Engineering
Design
Technical Services
Project Management
Consulting
Sector Specialisms
Industrial
Energy
Infrastructure
Buildings
Residential
Commercial
Water Resources
Heavy Civil
Role
What you would be doing
lab investment
safety compliance
process optimization
system validation
innovation enablement
cooling technologies
- Strategic Investments: Define and manage global lab investment strategy (equipment, facilities, and digital tools), balancing near-term program needs with long-term growth in high-value verticals.
- Safety & Compliance: Ensure labs meet the highest standards of safety, regulatory compliance, and industry certifications, building customer confidence in our solutions.
- Operational Excellence: Implement common processes, metrics, and best practices across labs to improve utilization, shorten cycle time, and maximize value from lab investments.
- Collaboration & Influence: Act as the global voice of lab operations, working with segment and business leaders to anticipate needs, resolve bottlenecks, and continuously improve performance.
- Talent & Organization Development: Develop, mentor, and engage lab teams globally. Establish career paths, training, and recognition for technical staff and lab managers.
- Innovation Enablement: Partner closely with NPI development teams, sustaining engineering, and advanced R&D to accelerate product launches and technology adoption. Collaborate with simulation and modeling teams to evaluate new technologies, optimize designs, and validate differentiated system-level solutions.
- Global Leadership: Direct lab operations across multiple international sites, ensuring alignment with business priorities, engineering needs, and enterprise safety standards.
- System-Level Validation: Oversee testing beyond compliance and design validation — including reliability, system performance, and optimization — to ensure robust, high-performing solutions in mission-critical applications.
- Cooling & Advanced Technologies: Build capabilities to support industrial cooling and liquid cooling for data centers, as well as other complex electromechanical systems, ensuring labs stay ahead of emerging requirements.
What you bring
10+ yrs
bachelor
python
lims
hvac
ul/iec
- Innovative & adaptable
- Ideally 10+ years experience in engineering, product development or test operations, with 5+ years’ leading product testing labs preferrable for industrial product development
- 20% or less travel, some international potential
- Experienced with interpreting and communicating global codes and standards in a lab environment. Experience with UL/IEC 60335-2-40, UL/IEC 62368, UL 50, 50E and 508a is a plus
- Experience in industrial colling systems, HVAC, or liquid cooling for data centers is a plus
- Knowledge of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) for managing lab data and workflows is a plus
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other Technology field preferred or extensive experience in relevant field
- Project management experience, including capital planning and investment in lab infrastructure
- Respectful and team oriented
- Understanding of and vision for using programming languages such as Python, R, Java, etc. for automation
- Strong background in system-level testing (compliance, reliability, performance, optimization)
- A vision for AI use in a test lab setting with experience in lab automation systems and robotics.
- Other supplemental benefits such as tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and legal & identity theft protection.
- 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
- Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money
- A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
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Company
Overview
Founded in 1894
Historical Milestone
Rooted in over a century of legacy, tracing back to early pioneers like ILSCO (1894) and ERICO (1903).
$3B Revenue
Annual Financial Performance
Reporting over $3 billion in annual revenue, driving global expansion and strategic growth.
Over 100 Years Experience
Industry Leadership
Consolidating expertise in enclosures, thermal-management, and electrical-fastening systems.
450+ Patents
Innovative Portfolio
Collective patents held by brands including Cadweld, Caddy, Hoffman, ERICO, and Schroff.
- Spun off from Pentair in 2018, rapidly carving out a global identity under the nVent umbrella.
- Signature projects include modular data-center cooling systems, AI-ready liquid cooling units, and secure railway infrastructure enclosures.
- Thrives in high-growth sectors like data centers, industrial automation, power utilities, renewable energy, energy storage, buildings, and telecom.
- Integrity: We do the right thing.
- Customer Focus: We listen, anticipate, and act to meet the needs of our customers.
- Innovation: We embrace creativity and encourage new ideas to drive solutions.
- Excellence: We pursue the highest standards of quality and performance.
- Collaboration: We work together to achieve more.
- Accountability: We take ownership and deliver results.
Net Zero by 2050
Carbon Emissions Target
Aiming to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century.
30% Reduction by 2030
Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Plans to cut absolute greenhouse gas emissions by one-third by 2030.
10% Water Reduction by 2025
Water Consumption Goal
Targeting a 10% reduction in water usage globally.
100% Renewable Energy by 2025
Energy Transition Commitment
Committed to sourcing all energy from renewable sources in the near future.
- Energy efficiency is a focus across global manufacturing and distribution facilities.
23% women
Global Workforce Composition
The percentage of women in the workforce globally.
5% increase
Female Leadership Goal
Target to increase female representation in leadership roles by 2025.
- Fosters an inclusive culture where employees feel valued and respected.
- Developed programs to increase recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups.
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