Lean Specialist
nVent · Anoka, MN
- Level
- Specialist
- Team
- Lean / CI
- Base pay
- $54k–$101k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 21 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A specialist continuous improvement role at nVent (industrial) in Anoka, MN. Partner with teams across the organization to identify opportunities, solve problems, and build sustainable systems that create lasting change.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Kaizen, 5S
- Base pay
- $54k–$101k
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Your game plan for this job
Most people just hit Apply. Do these first and you show up with someone on the inside.
- 1
Find 2–3 people on the Lean / CI team at this site
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply most.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
Ask about the work, not for a referral. We write it for you.
- 3
Have a 15-minute chat
Good questions for this role:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is CI run from the plant floor or from a corporate OpEx group?
- Which metrics does leadership actually watch: OEE, scrap, cost per unit?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
Apply, ideally with a referral
Ask if they'd refer you or introduce you to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link and tell them the day you apply.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
About the role
What you will experience in this position
- ✓Train, coach, and challenge process owners in the use of lean tools, approaches, and techniques to create sustainable management and measurement systems.
- ✓Facilitate team use of Lean Tools, including Kaizen, 5S, Standard Work, PDCA/Problem Solving Process, CCF and identifying Waste.
- ✓Lead numerous projects to ensure on-time delivery and quality using both internal and external resources.
- ✓Investigate and analyze production methods and processes to identify improvements that drive efficiency, reduce cost, and eliminate waste.
- ✓Actively seek out best practices to share and implement.
- ✓Uses data to compare pre and post improvement state to quantify financial savings.
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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.
As 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.
You have
- •Bachelor’s degree required. Degree in Engineering or a related subject area preferred.
- •2+ years manufacturing/lean experience.
- •Experience with Lean Manufacturing concepts and practices.
- •Knowledge of process improvement concepts and methods along with the flexibility and adaptability to accept and support new processes in a changing business environment.
- •Skilled 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.
- •Ability to adapt to rapidly changing business circumstances; must be able to thrive in a constantly changing business environment.
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