Vice President, Quality

nVent · St Louis Park, MN

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Level: Director+
Team: Quality
Base pay: $242k–$359k
Experience asked: 15+ years
Industry: Industrial
Posted: 2 days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A director-level quality role at nVent (industrial) in St Louis Park, MN. Customer, Supplier, and Operational Quality.

They ask for: 15+ years
Tools it names: Root cause, ISO 9001, AS9100, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Internal audits, Supplier quality
Base pay: $242k–$359k

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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026

Quality Engineer roles in Minnesota: typical posted base $89k–$144k. This one lists $242k–$359k.

Median of the low and high ends of 36 live postings that list pay, out of 60 quality engineer openings in Minnesota, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 59 other live quality postings in Minnesota.

Base pay: About 168% above similar roles
Experience asked: More than usual (15+ vs 5+)

Skills these teams ask for most

✓ Root cause 57%
✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 45%
✓ Supplier quality 40%
CAPA 38%
Lean 37%
Six Sigma 37%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

It asks for 15+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
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This plant: nVent in St Louis Park

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Full description from nVentAs posted on their careers site.Show

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.

The Vice President of Quality is an enterprise leadership role accountable for enterprise quality performance, not just quality systems. This leader will define and execute nVent’s quality strategy across the full value chain, with direct accountability for improving customer escapes, cost of poor quality, first-pass yield, supplier quality performance, warranty performance, product reliability, on-time-to-customer impact, and launch quality. The role will shift quality from a primarily compliance- and governance-centered function to a performance-driving enterprise capability that improves customer outcomes, operational execution, and business growth.

Reporting to the Chief Supply Chain Officer, the Vice President Quality will serve as the senior-most quality leader for nVent, setting the vision, operating model, performance expectations, capabilities, and accountability mechanisms required to scale quality as nVent grows. This leader will partner closely with segment presidents, operations, engineering, product management, sourcing and procurement, digital, commercial, legal, and finance leaders to embed quality into business decision-making and deliver measurable improvements in customer experience, reliability, warranty, launch readiness, supplier performance, operational quality, and quality-related business risk.

Enterprise Quality Performance and Accountability

•Own enterprise quality performance outcomes, including customer escapes, cost of poor quality, first-pass yield, supplier quality, warranty, reliability, launch quality, and the impact of quality issues on on-time-to-customer performance.
•Translate quality strategy into measurable business results, ensuring quality priorities are directly connected to customer experience, operational performance, growth, profitability, and risk reduction.
•Establish clear enterprise, segment, region, business unit, and site-level accountability for the quality metrics that matter most to customers and the business.
•Lead operating reviews that move beyond reporting activity to identifying performance gaps, driving root cause ownership, and sustaining measurable improvement.

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New Product Quality and Launch Excellence

•Elevate new product quality as a core enterprise capability, ensuring quality is designed into high-growth platforms, strategic programs, and critical infrastructure solutions from concept through launch and field performance.
•Partner with engineering, product management, operations, and commercial leaders to strengthen quality planning, design validation, process validation, risk assessment, reliability requirements, and launch readiness across major programs such as Saturn, Avatar, Data Solutions growth initiatives, and other strategic launches.
•Ensure robust NPI quality gates, readiness reviews, and escalation criteria are in place to prevent launch defects, customer escapes, warranty exposure, and reliability issues.
•Build feedback loops from field performance, warranty, customer quality, and manufacturing quality data into product development and launch processes.

Digital Quality, Analytics, and Enterprise Quality Intelligence

•Lead the evolution of digital quality as an enterprise capability, including predictive quality, AI-enabled risk detection, manufacturing quality analytics, digital traceability, and enterprise quality intelligence.
•Partner with Digital and Integrated Supply Chain leaders to modernize eQMS capabilities, automate quality workflows, strengthen data integrity, and establish a single source of truth for enterprise quality performance.
•Use advanced analytics to identify leading indicators of quality risk across product design, suppliers, manufacturing processes, field performance, warranty, and customer experience.
•Move the organization from lagging quality reporting to predictive and preventive insights that enable faster decisions, better prioritization, and measurable performance improvement.

Quality Management Systems, Compliance, and Standards

•Lead the modernization, standardization, and continuous improvement of nVent’s Quality Management System, ensuring systems and standards enable performance improvement rather than becoming ends in themselves.
•Ensure readiness and sustained compliance with applicable quality and regulatory standards, including ISO 9001 and other business-relevant standards such as ISO 14001, AS9100, customer-specific requirements, and regional regulatory expectations.
•Strengthen management review, internal audit, external audit, and corrective and preventive action processes to ensure systemic issues are identified, resolved, and prevented from recurring.
•Partner with legal, compliance, engineering, operations, and commercial teams to manage quality-related risk and ensure quality commitments are understood, objective, and executable.

Customer, Supplier, and Operational Quality

•Build customer quality capability that improves responsiveness, transparency, containment, corrective action effectiveness, customer confidence, and reduction of repeat escapes.
•Advance supplier quality strategy, qualification, audit discipline, scorecards, supplier development, and escalation processes to improve supplier performance and protect customer commitments.
•Embed quality into manufacturing and operational processes with a focus on defect prevention, first-pass yield, process capability, reliability, error proofing, and flow to customer.
•Use customer feedback, warranty data, supplier performance, manufacturing quality, field performance, and operational metrics to prioritize systemic improvement opportunities.

Leadership, Talent, and Quality Culture

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