Project Manager

About the role

Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executive, PMO, functional, and facility leadership to understand and prioritize business goals.
• Aid in developing project proposals that strictly align with schedule, funding, and staffing requirements.
• Lead large-scale central initiatives, directing infrastructure expansion, product transfers, and capital equipment projects, ensuring flawless alignment with business objectives.
• Work with functional leaders to develop detailed work plans and staffing needs, and arrange recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
• Build and manage project timelines by determining the sequence of activities, durations, resource availability, and schedule constraints.
• Maintain and control project budgets, ensuring strict adherence to company policies.
• Manage and mitigate project risks. Communicate project status and updates to project team, collaborators, and leadership through effective, recurring communication.
• Cook up known issues to leadership for corrective action when appropriate.
• Coordinate and lead effective cross-functional team meetings and ensure project team accountability.
• Provide work direction to project teams. Mentor and train others in methodologies, standards, and business tools.
• Collaborate with the PMO and other departments to continuously improve project management processes, tools, and templates.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (B.A., B.S.) is a must.
• 5+ years project management or relevant experience.
• Having a Certified Professional Project Manager (CPPM) or Professional Project Manager (PMP) certification is preferred.
• Knowledge of LEAN manufacturing and manufacturing engineering required.
• Skill in analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Willingness to travel.

Qualifications

• Dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world.
• Flexible career opportunities.
• Opportunities to make an impact every day.
• Believe in our inventive electrical solutions that enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world.
• Offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands.
• Robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dating back more than 100 years.
• Recognized globally for quality, reliability, and innovation.
• Principal office in London and management office in Minneapolis.
• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers.
• Innovative & adaptable
• Dedicated to absolute integrity
• Focused on the customer first
• Respectful and team oriented
• Optimistic and energizing
• Accountable for performance

Skills

• 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

• 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

Pay Transparency 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 $105,000.00 - $195,000.00 Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Schedule

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.