Manager, Engineering 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 end‑to‑end 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 to broader sites. As adoption matures, this role is responsible for propagating standard execution practices, enabling cross‑segment 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.

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

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

• Own performance metrics including cycle time, SLA adherence, throughput, and backlog aging
• Use dashboards and reviews to drive accountability and fact‑based decision‑making
• Lead continuous improvement efforts to simplify workflows, strengthen handoffs, and enable parallel execution
• Ensure adoption and sustainability of tools, dashboards, and standard work

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

• 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 cross‑functional 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 problem‑solving skills

• 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…