NPI Manufacturing Engineering Technician

Davita Inc.; Anoka (MN); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global provider as an NPI Manufacturing Engineering Technician. In this role, you'll collaborate with multi-functional teams on new product launches, implementing innovative manufacturing processes and supporting the success of product introductions. Your engineering expertise will be essential in driving project goals and ensuring high-quality outcomes.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) retirement plan with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off including volunteer time

Qualifications

• 2+ years technical/engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with engineering software and enterprise resource planning.
• Knowledge of DFM (Design for Manufacturability).

Responsibilities

• Participate in New Product Introduction projects from inception to launch.
• Lead prototype builds and assess process capacities.
• Write initial work instructions for new products.

Skills

Fixture Design

Manufacturing Processes

Networking

Education

Technical Degree or Certification

Job description

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.

Join us in a rewarding career as an NPI Manufacturing Engineering Technician at nVent. In this position, you will participate in New Product Introduction (NPI) projects from inception to production launch. By demonstrating the use of NPI tools to assess past failure modes and create new design and processing methods, you will collaborate closely with teams such as New Product Development, Operations, Program Managers, Product Managers, and Supply Chain to ensure the highest quality product launch and utmost customer satisfaction.

What you will experience in this position:

• Participate in project kick-off meetings, support the development of project teams for internal requirements, verify layout data, assess process capacity, and meet customer-specific requirements.
• Support new product launches and development by leading prototype builds that may have fast turnaround times from customers.
• Successfully implement and validate new equipment, new processes, and recipe creation for new products.
• Determine product complexity and build requirements to select appropriate manufacturing lines/processes.
• Write initial work instructions for new products.
• Recommend product and process improvements.
• Participate in design and process failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA).
• Assess new product processes for safety impact.
  

You have:

• Technical degree or Certification preferred.
• 2+ years technical/engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, including fixture design and basic manufacturing process expertise (forming, welding, assembly, testing, packaging). Participation in the FMEA process.
• 3 years experience with engineering software and enterprise resource planning preferred.
• Knowledge of DFM (Design for Manufacturability) to provide guidance for new and existing products.
• Ability to network multi-functionally.
• Ability to meet the physical and environmental demands of a manufacturing position.

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

Pay Transparency

nVent's pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee's work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply.

Compensation Range:

$23.90 - $44.40 Per Hour

Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for 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 such as tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and 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 that we celebrate and encourage each other's authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.