Plant Manager

About the Role

Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to lead our high-voltage bus business in Medway, MA. The Plant Manager provides full-site leadership and oversight from inside sales through field service, ensuring high-voltage gas-insulated bus systems are designed, manufactured, and installed safely, within budget, and in compliance with customer requirements and applicable standards.

Overall responsibility includes Inside Sales, Engineering, Project Management, Production Control, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Lean, Quality Assurance, Field Service, and EH&S functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-site operations across inside sales, engineering, project management, purchasing, production control, manufacturing, quality, field service, Lean, and EH&S.
• Ensure proposals, project budgets, Percent of Completion (POC) revenue, and margins are accurate and aligned with business commitments.
• Drive safe, efficient manufacturing operations that meet production, quality, delivery, cost, and cash objectives.
• Lead Lean transformation, strategy deployment, Kaizen activity, and waste elimination across manufacturing and business processes.
• Oversee field service activities to support proper installation of high-voltage gas-insulated bus ducts.
• Develop and manage profit plans, budgets, staffing levels, operating expenses, and capital investments.
• Establish, monitor, and improve performance against safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer service standards.
• Maintain plant facilities, equipment, and preventive maintenance programs to support safe and reliable operations.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, OSHA, and other safety regulations.
• Coach and hold functional and value stream leaders accountable for operational, financial, and customer commitments.
• Partner with planning, quality, Lean, EH&S, finance, HR, engineering, supply chain, sales, marketing, and project management to align priorities and deliver results.
• Work with nVent leadership to identify opportunities, execute action plans, and achieve enterprise goals and strategic objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or related field is required.
• Minimum 5 years of site leadership experience, preferably managing an organization of approximately 100 employees.
• Ideally, 10+ years of manufacturing experience in high-voltage electrical equipment or engineered-to-order projects.
• Experience leading custom or project-based manufacturing with complex customer specifications and cross-functional execution.
• Proven success implementing Lean, strategy deployment, Kaizen, value stream management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

About Us

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. Our comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions spans industry-leading brands 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.

Core Values

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

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package 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.

Pay

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: $115,500.00 - $214,500.00. Depending on the position offered, the employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.