# Associate R&D Engineering Lab Technician

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. If you enjoy hands-on lab work and like being trusted to think, adapt, and solve problems, this role is for you. As an Associate R&D Engineering Lab Technician, you’ll support prototype and pre-production testing while interacting directly with engineers on new and evolving product builds. This is an opportunity to grow your technical skills in a dynamic R&D lab supporting advanced data center cooling and enclosure solutions. ** This is an hourly position and you will work on-site 5 days/week in Anoka, MN. You will work 40 hours/week with core hours being from 9:30 am - 3:30 pm. ** WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION: Set up and complete prototype, pre-production, and agency testing in nVent’s R&D lab across enclosures, cooling, and high-density liquid cooling (HDLC) product areas. Partner closely with engineers to understand test intent, adapt test setups, and support evolving test plans and procedures. Build, modify, and operate test fixtur

- **Id**: 3844161
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nvent-associate-rd-engineering-lab-technician>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Anoka, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T18:18:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6066
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Servers & Data Center Hardware, HVAC & Refrigeration, Electrical Equipment & Cables

## Company

- **Id**: 6866
- **Name**: nVent
- **Domain**: nvent.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nvent>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 76
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.671
- **Repost share**: 0.013
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: associate
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T00:07:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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