Construction Manager

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 position will support our Trachte facility in Oregon, WI. As a part of nVent, Trachte is a leading manufacturer of highly engineered metal buildings for industrial and commercial applications.

Today, nVent connects and protects our customers with inventive electrical solutions. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions for critical equipment, buildings and crucial processes. Offering both prefabricated and on-site building capabilities, framed and frameless building construction types, and products ranging from build kits and modular units to fully engineered integrated buildings.

• Provide leadership for the operations and personnel of the production operations teams.
• Lead and handle safe, efficient, productive, and economical manufacturing operations.
• Increase the ratio of value to non-value and eliminate waste in the overall supply chain from start to finish, for a defined product family; and for ensuring the value stream meets or exceeds customer requirements.
• Provide leadership and work direction for the process team to ensure that resources needed are adequate to meet key requirements related to safety, service levels, cost, and productivity
• Utilization of lean tools to provide continuous improvement of all key cost and service metrics
• Act as a change agent and drive out waste throughout the manufacturing operation using Lean methodologies.
• Track daily performance; verify team leader counter measures and recovery plans are in place for missed targets.
• Ensure process center communication boards are being used every day.

• Bachelor’s degree in business-related field preferred.
• Ideally 5+years proven experience in construction management or manufacturing environment preferred.
• Ideally 3+ years proven experience in a leadership role.
• Prior experience in a Lean environment preferred.
• Experience with ISO
  9001 would be a plus.
• Prior knowledge of ERP systems is a plus.

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.

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Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:
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