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Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.\nAs a Lean Specialist, you'll play a key role in driving continuous improvement initiatives that directly impact operational performance, employee engagement, and business results. You'll partner with teams across the organization to identify opportunities, solve problems, and build sustainable systems that create lasting change.\nWHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:\nTraining and Coaching:\nTrain, coach, and challenge process owners in the use of lean tools, approaches, and techniques to create sustainable management and measurement systems.\nLean Tools Facilitation:\nFacilitate team use of Lean Tools, including Kaizen, 5S, Standard Work, PDCA/Problem Solving Process, CCF and identifying Waste.\nProject Management:\nLead numerous projects to ensure on-time delivery and quality using both internal and external resources.\nProcess Improvement:\nInvestigate and analyze production methods and processes to identify improvements that drive efficiency, reduce cost, and eliminate waste.\nStandard Methodologies:\nActively seek out best practices to share and implement.\nFinancial Analysis:\nUses data to compare pre and post improvement state to quantify financial savings.\nYOU HAVE:\nBachelor’s degree required. Degree in Engineering or a related subject area preferred.\n2+ years manufacturing/lean experience.\nExperience with Lean Manufacturing concepts and practices.\nKnowledge of process improvement concepts and methods along with the flexibility and adaptability to accept and support new processes in a changing business environment.\nSkilled at effective communications. Skills must include good interpersonal skills, as well as written and verbal communication skills, and ability to understand information and ideas as presented.\nAbility to adapt to rapidly changing business circumstances; must be able to thrive in a constantly changing business environment.\nWE HAVE:\nA 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\nnVent 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.\n\nOur 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.\n\nCommitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work\nWe encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide\n\nThrough our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money\n\nCore values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:\nInnovative & adaptable\n\nDedicated to absolute integrity\n\nFocused on the customer first\n\nRespectful and team oriented\n\nOptimistic and energizing\n\nAccountable for performance\n\nBenefits to support the lives of our employees\n\nPay Transparency\nnVent’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.\nCompensation Range:\n$54,300.00 - $100,800.00Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.\nBenefit Overview\nAt 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:\nMedical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.\n\nA 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan - both include a company match.\n\nOther 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.\n\nAt nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. 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