Quality 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 role can be located in either our Madison, Wisconsin or Houston, Texas location.**

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

• Be a visible quality leader for our Engineered Building Solutions (EBS) business by championing the quality processes, tools, policies, and documentation systems across the region - ensuring quality is embedded in how work gets done, not just checked at the end.

• Shape the future of quality by defining, developing, and deploying longterm strategies that drive bestinclass systems and deliver highquality products and services for our customers.

• Lead and mentor site quality managers across multiple locations, serving as a trusted subjectmatter expert and thought partner on quality topics for the region and business unit.

• Act as a steward of quality standards, aligning regional quality objectives with business segment goals and enterprise quality leadership to ensure consistency and accountability.

• Drive meaningful transformation by leading the evolution, improvement, and digitization of the nVent Quality Management System (QMS), aligning it with industry best practices and modern quality systems.

• Champion critical quality systems, including Customer Complaints, Corrective & Preventive Action (CAPA), and Change Management, to deliver systemic improvements and measurable gains in quality performance.

• Own and elevate quality metrics and dashboards, helping define meaningful KPIs, introduce futurefocused metrics, and establish clear operational definitions that enable accurate, consistent reporting across the organization.

YOU HAVE

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical field (advanced degree preferred).

• 10+ years of experience in quality engineering

• Leadership experience, with demonstrated ability to teach, coach, and apply quality tools and methodologies, including Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing principles across multiple plants preferred.

• Willingness to travel domestically, up to 30%, to support sites and drive quality excellence across the region.

• Strong digital fluency, with experience working in ERP systems, CAPA databases, PLM tools (ENOVIA preferred), New Product Development processes, data and reporting platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Intelex, Salesforce, Excel, PowerPoint), and rootcause and corrective action methodologies (8D, PDCA, RCCM, quality tools).

• A proven track record of leading significant quality initiatives across multiple sites, driving alignment, standardization, and sustainable improvement.

• Deep expertise in Quality Management Systems, including building, maintaining, and improving QMS documentation and procedures in compliance with ISO 9001:2015.

• Handson experience implementing and maintaining ISO 9001:2015 certifications within a multisite, global organization. Lead auditor certification and familiarity with ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 are strongly preferred.

• Exceptional analytical, problemsolving, and rootcause analysis skills, with Six Sigma Black Belt certification or higher preferred.

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

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 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.

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.