Electrical Engineering Manager
nVent · Anoka, MN
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Reliability
- Base pay
- $105k–$195k
- Travel
- 15%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 2 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management reliability role at nVent (industrial) in Anoka, MN. Develop, motivate, and support a high-performing team that consistently meets or exceeds performance expectations.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Tooling
- Base pay
- $105k–$195k
- Day to day
- about 15% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in Minnesota: typical posted base $95k–$130k. This one lists $105k–$195k.
Median of the low and high ends of 5 live postings that list pay, out of 6 reliability engineer openings in Minnesota, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Minnesota plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 499 other live reliability postings in the US.
- Base pay
- About 21% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (7+ vs 5+)
Typical $105k–$143k, from 179 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 54%
- ✓ Team leadership 28%
- FMEA 26%
- Automation 24%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Reliability team at nVent
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- The posting says about 15% travel. Between which sites?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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- 5
Bring proof to the interview
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This plant: nVent in Anoka
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Full description from nVentAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
What you will experience in this position
- ✓Lead a team of electrical engineers responsible for designing control systems for a diverse portfolio of cooling solutions serving data center markets.
- ✓Lead and supervise engineering personnel and external engineering partners throughout all design and build phases to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- ✓Coordinate and balance workloads across internal and external resources to complete scheduled engineering activities.
- ✓Develop, motivate, and support a high-performing team that consistently meets or exceeds performance expectations.
- ✓Coordinate and review project design decisions with staff engineers and management.
- ✓Monitor and manage budgets, schedules, and control system designs for customer-ordered and internally developed products.
- ✓Establish and maintain development schedules, test specifications, and validation protocols.
- ✓Oversee prototyping and testing activities.
- ✓Direct external activities, including regulatory and third-party testing.
- ✓Maintain customer engagement through meetings, presentations, and technical discussions.
- ✓Partner closely with process development and tooling teams to provide required engineering support.
- ✓Promote best practices to strengthen staff technical depth, ensure responsive operational support, and enable continuous process improvement.
- ✓Foster a collaborative team environment through open communication, proactive problem identification, and effective resolution.
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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.
You have
- •Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- •Ideally 7+ years of relevant engineering experience, with a focus on developing and deploying embedded control systems.
- •Strong leadership and people management skills, with a proven track record of successfully leading and developing teams, ideally including coordination with remotely located partners.
- •Experience specifying, developing, maintaining, and managing the deployment of embedded control systems, including controller design, component selection, programming, display system integration, testing, and commissioning.
- •Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- •Ability to coordinate team activities, negotiate requirements, and remain flexible to accommodate changes in scope and direction.
- •Ability to travel regularly as required, up to 15%.
We have
- •A 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
- •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. 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.
- •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. Learn more at www.nvent.com .
- •Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work
- •We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide
- •Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money
- •Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. 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 to support the lives of our employees