Operations Manager
nVent · Blaine, MN
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $105k–$195k
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 7 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at nVent (industrial) in Blaine, MN. 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.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree preferred
- Base pay
- $105k–$195k
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Minnesota: typical posted base $105k–$195k. This one lists $105k–$195k.
Median of the low and high ends of 12 live postings that list pay, out of 16 production 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 15 other live production postings in Minnesota.
- Base pay
- About 71% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 10+)
Typical $78k–$98k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 10+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 69%
- Lean 38%
- EHS / safety 38%
- Six Sigma 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: nVent in Blaine
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Full description from nVentAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
What you will experience in this position
- ✓Provide leadership and work direction for the team to ensure that resources needed are adequate to meet key
requirements
related to safety, service levels, cost, and productivity.
- ✓Provide performance management for supervisors, manufacturing and warehouse team.
- ✓Oversee day-to-day production activities to ensure current commitments are achieved and drive improvements.
- ✓Track daily performance; verify team leader(s) counter measures and recovery plans are in place to ensure targets are met. Recommend and implement changes to improve productivity and support production plans.
- ✓Lead safety awareness and ensure a safe working environment. Provide corrective action when necessary.
- ✓Maintain open communication with employees and address concerns with HR input.
- ✓Ensure strategic plans for talent acquisition, development and performance management.
- ✓Help establish and implement continuous improvement plans.
requirements
exist, employee pay will comply.
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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.
nVent is growing, and we want you to be a part of it! We are opening a new manufacturing facility in Lexington, MN, to support our expanding Data Solutions business. We are looking for hardworking individuals like you to join our dynamic team. Be part of our journey to shape the future and grow with us!
- •* This position will be based at our new Lexington Preserve facility in Blaine, MN, which will open in 2027. Upon hire, onboarding and training will be held at our facilities in Blaine or Anoka, MN until the new facility opens. **
You have
- •Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related field is preferred.
- •Ideally minimum of 3 years of experience in manufacturing operations leadership, with 2+ years leading Supervisors.
- •Proven track record of leading teams to achieve ambitious goals.
- •Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
- •Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a data driven mentality
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