Maintenance 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.

At our Eleanor, WV facility, you will be responsible for maintaining, fixing, repairing, and improving manufacturing equipment. You will also support safe, efficient, and reliable operations by maintaining facility systems. This role plays a critical part in minimizing downtime, supporting continuous improvement initiatives and ensuring production equipment performs at optimal levels.

• •High school diploma or equivalent experience or GED required; technical training, trade school certification, or related education preferred.
• •Minimum of five (5) years of industrial maintenance experience.
• •Experience maintaining and repairing manufacturing equipment in a production environment.
• •Solid understanding of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
• •Shown fixing, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills.
• •Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, technical manuals, and engineering drawings
• •Experience using hand tools, power tools, machine tools, and precision measuring equipment.
• •Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and accurate documentation practices.
• •Ability to work independently and run multiple priorities in fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• •Fabrication, welding, and machining experience preferred.
• •Ability to work overtime, including short-notice overtime, as business needs require.
• •Team members must be able to stand and walk for extended periods, frequently use hands and tools, bend, kneel, reach, balance, and occasionally climb as needed to perform maintenance activities.
• •Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. occasionally, 30 lbs. frequently, and 10 lbs. continuously.
• •Work is performed in a manufacturing environment with exposure to moving machinery, noise, varying temperatures, and conditions that may not be climate-controlled.
• •Ability to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and safely perform crucial job functions.
• •Computer skills and experience

• •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

At 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:

• •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.

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means tha