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Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.\nThe Sr Manager, Design Quality, Reliability & Development Assurance will lead and partner with engineering teams to establish scalable, practical approaches for design quality, verification and validation, reliability engineering, technical reviews, and product development rigor.\nThis role is responsible for driving consistency in how products are developed, tested, and assessed for readiness while maintaining the speed and agility required in a fast-growing New Product Introduction (NPI) environment.\nThe successful candidate will combine strong engineering credibility with exceptional influence and change leadership skills. They will build common practices, coach engineering teams, establish engineering standards, and ultimately develop a team that enables predictable product development outcomes across multiple business units. This role is a key member of the Engineering Excellence organization.\nWHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:\nDesign Quality Excellence\nDevelop and implement standard engineering practices that improve design quality and development consistency.\nEstablish scalable design review methodologies and standard processes.\nDefine engineering readiness and technical maturity expectations throughout the product development lifecycle.\nPartner with engineering leaders to improve technical rigor while maintaining development speed.\nProvide independent technical challenge and feedback during development reviews.\nDefine expectations for system architecture, multi-functional design reviews, design maturity, issue closure, and required technical evidence.\nEnsure customer requirements, product requirements, critical-to-quality characteristics, and initial risks are translated into clear engineering inputs early in development.\nVerification & Validation Excellence\nEstablish common verification and validation methodologies across the organization.\nDefine expectations for verification strategies, test planning, test evidence, and requirements-to-test traceability.\nDevelop scalable approaches for requirements-to-test traceability.\nPartner with engineering teams to improve verification planning early in development.\nSupport readiness assessments for major product development milestones.\nEnsure validation confirms that requirements and critical-to-quality characteristics have been met and that results are appropriately documented.\nEstablish measures that evaluate verification and validation effectiveness, including coverage, issue discovery, closure, and retest.\nDevelopment Assurance & NPI Readiness\nOwn the technical assurance framework and evidence expectations for key NPI tollgates and verification checkpoints.\nDefine scalable entry and exit criteria for EV, DV, PV, and launch readiness based on product risk and complexity.\nAssess technical maturity, quality and reliability risk, and completeness of required engineering evidence.\nEnsure unresolved technical risks, exceptions, and deviations are clearly documented, owned, time-bound, and visible to decision-makers.\nPartner with Engineering leaders and PMO to integrate quality, reliability, and technical-readiness inputs into NPI stage-gate decisions.\nSupport risk-based application of the assurance process to maintain rigor without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.\nReliability Engineering\nDevelop and deploy reliability engineering methodologies appropriate to product risk and complexity.\nEstablish frameworks for DFMEA, risk assessment, reliability planning, and reliability growth.\nDrive proactive identification and mitigation of technical risk.\nPartner with engineering teams to integrate reliability considerations earlier in the design process.\nBuild and lead reliability engineering capabilities over time.\nEstablish reliability targets and measures that connect development evidence to post-launch field performance.\nBuild and lead reliability engineering capabilities over time.\nEngineering Standards & Continuous Improvement\nCreate practical engineering standard work, templates, tools, and guidance materials.\nIdentify gaps in current development practices and drive systemic improvements.\nCapture and institutionalize engineering lessons learned across business units.\nEstablish metrics and dashboards that measure engineering effectiveness and product readiness.\nPromote a culture of continuous improvement and learning.\nPartner with Sustaining Engineering, Quality, Service, and business engineering teams to identify systemic trends and prioritize corrective actions.\nEstablish metrics and dashboards that measure product readiness, open technical risk, validation effectiveness, field performance, and corrective-action effectiveness.\nOrganizational Leadership\nBuild strong partnerships with Engineering, PMO, Quality, Manufacturing, ISC, Product Management, and Commercial teams.\nInfluence engineering practices across multiple business units without direct authority.\nCoach, mentor, and develop future engineering excellence and reliability talent.\nLead cross-functional initiatives that improve product development effectiveness.\nBuild and scale the Quality, Reliability and Development Assurance organization as the capability matures.\nYOU HAVE:\nBachelor's degree in Engineering or other technical field.\n8+ years of engineering experience supporting NPI or product development environments.\n3+ years leading engineering teams, technical programs, or engineering process improvement initiatives.\nDemonstrated experience influencing engineering organizations and driving adoption of new practices.\nExperience leading or participating in design reviews, technical reviews, and product development governance.\nStrong understanding of product development lifecycles and engineering standards.\nAbility to balance technical rigor with business speed and practicality.\nIdeally, experience in reliability engineering, systems engineering, verification & validation, or design quality disciplines.\nExperience implementing engineering processes or development frameworks across multiple teams or business units.\nKnowledge of DFMEA, risk management, systems engineering, APQP, Design for Six Sigma, or related methodologies preferred.\nExperience developing engineering standards, design review frameworks, or product development operating models preferred.\nExperience building new capabilities or functions within a growing organization.\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$123,500.00 - $229,500.00Depending 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. 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