Vice President, Quality

nVent Enclosure Systems LLC; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 242,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

nVent seeks a Vice President of Quality to lead enterprise quality performance and strategic initiatives across product, manufacturing, and supply chain. The role reports to the Chief Supply Chain Officer and partners with engineering, product management, sourcing, and finance to elevate quality as a core business capability.

The leader will drive analytics, digital quality, and scalable governance to improve customer outcomes, reliability, and warranty performance while advancing a culture of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, business, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive quality, operations, engineering, or supply chain leadership experience in a global manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience improving quality performance outcomes including escapes, cost of poor quality, first-pass yield, and warranty.
• Strong experience in new product quality, design validation, process validation, and launch readiness.
• Experience advancing digital quality capabilities, including eQMS, analytics, predictive insights, and AI-enabled risk detection.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise quality performance outcomes across the value chain, including customer escapes, cost of poor quality, and launch quality.
• Translate quality strategy into measurable business results linked to customer experience and growth.
• Establish accountability for quality metrics at enterprise, segment, region, and site levels.
• Lead operating reviews to identify gaps and drive sustainable improvement.
• Elevate new product quality across major programs from concept to field performance.
• Build robust NPI gates, readiness reviews, and escalation criteria to prevent defects and warranty exposure.
• Lead modernization of quality management systems and ensure readiness for compliance.

Skills

Executive leadership

Quality strategy

Enterprise quality

Global manufacturing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Advanced degree preferred

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.

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.

What You Will Experience in This Position

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.

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

• Champion a quality‑first culture where leaders model prevention‑based decision‑making and teams are empowered to stop, escape, and resolve issues before they reach the customer.
• Build, develop, and inspire a high‑performing quality leadership team with clear accountability, succession depth, and strong capability across enterprise, segment, regional, and site quality roles.
• Lead through influence in a matrixed environment, balancing enterprise standards with business‑specific execution needs and measurable performance outcomes.
• Model executive leadership behaviors, including strategic thinking, courageous decision‑making, stakeholder engagement, talent development, collaboration, adaptability, and self‑accountability.

You Have

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, business, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive quality, operations, engineering, or supply chain leadership experience in a global manufacturing environment, including significant leadership of multi‑site or enterprise quality functions.
• Demonstrated experience improving quality performance outcomes, including customer escapes, cost of poor quality, first‑pass yield, supplier quality, warranty, reliability, and launch quality.
• Strong experience in new product quality, design validation, process validation, launch readiness, reliability engineering, and quality risk management for complex product portfolios.
• Experience advancing digital quality capabilities, including eQMS, quality analytics, digital traceability, predictive insights, and AI‑enabled risk detection.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise‑level change across a complex, matrixed, global organization.
• Exceptional communication, influencing, and executive presence, with the ability to translate quality priorities into business value.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Suggested Success Measures

• Reduced customer escapes and repeat quality issues, with improved containment, responsiveness, and corrective action effectiveness.
• Improved cost of poor quality, first‑pass yield, process capability, reliability, warranty performance, and on‑time‑to‑customer impact from quality issues.
• Improved supplier quality performance through stronger qualification, development, governance, scorecards, and corrective action discipline.
• Stronger new product quality outcomes, including improved launch readiness, fewer launch defects, reduced warranty exposure, and better reliability performance.
• Expanded digital quality maturity, including predictive quality insights, AI‑enabled risk detection, digital traceability, and enterprise quality intelligence.
• Increased quality maturity from reactive issue management to proactive prevention, measurable performance improvement, and stronger enterprise accountability.

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
• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work
• Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

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 .

We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

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:

$241,500.00 - $359,000.00

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 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 that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.

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