Engineering Development Program Jobs in Minnesota

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 R&D Engineering Program Manager - Data Solutions is a high-impact individual contributor role responsible for leading the execution and governance of multiple concurrent New Product Introduction (NPI) programs across the nVent Systems Protection segment. This role serves as the program owner, ensuring cross-functional alignment, risk mitigation, and successful product launches that drive business growth. While this role does not have direct reports, it requires strong cross-functional leadership to align product management, engineering, operations, and executive stakeholders. The Program Manager will establish and drive program governance, optimize resource allocation, and ensure execution excellence at a program level, balancing priorities across multiple product development initiatives.
WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:
Program Strategy & Execution:

• Lead multiple concurrent NPI programs, ensuring alignment with business goals and delivering on time, within budget, and to quality standards.

• Drive program governance, execution frameworks, and risk mitigation to optimize efficiency, decision-making, and product launch success.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Act as the primary accountability leader, influencing cross-functional teams and executives to drive alignment and resolve execution challenges.

• Provide executive-level updates, risk assessments, and trade-off recommendations to ensure visibility and stakeholder engagement.

Program Standardization & Best Practices:

• Develop and implement standardized methodologies, governance models, and execution frameworks to enhance consistency and scalability.

• Ensure adherence to stage-gate processes, quality assurance, and risk management strategies to mitigate delays and execution risks.

Risk Management & Resource Optimization:

• Identify and proactively mitigate risks, ensuring contingency plans are in place to maintain schedule and budget targets.

• Optimize resource allocation across programs, balancing personnel, budget, and capacity constraints to improve delivery efficiency.

Performance Monitoring & Business Impact:

• Track Key Performance Indicators for schedule adherence, budget performance, cost efficiency, and commercialization readiness, holding teams accountable for results.

• Use data-driven insights and dashboards to align program execution with business and market strategies, driving continuous improvement.

YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related technical field (PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification preferred).

• Ideally 12+ years of experience in program/project management, with a strong focus on NPI or complex product development programs.

• Proven track record to lead multiple concurrent projects and drive program-level execution across cross-functional teams.

• Strong expertise in stage-gate processes, program governance, and risk management.

• Experience implementing and scaling PMO methodologies, tools, and standard processes.

• Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, and decision-making abilities.

• Experience leading program budgets, aligning program execution with business objectives, and optimizing resource allocation.

• Willingness to travel up to 20% for collaboration and program execution.

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:

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.