nVent
Staff R&D Engineer - Technical Project Lead
Anoka, MN, US
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- Seniority
- Lead / management
- Stated salary
- $105,000 per year
- Country
- US
- Work mode
- On-site / unstated
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- 29 Oct 2026
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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.
WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:
- Serve as the technical leader and engineering owner for sophisticated Data Solutions liquid-cooling product development programs, including in-row and in-rack CDUs, manifolds, and fluid-distribution solutions.
- Own system architecture and technical requirements, translating customer and product needs into engineering specifications, subsystem interfaces, design criteria, and verification plans.
- Drive system-level technical decisions and cross-disciplinary integration across thermal/fluid, mechanical, electrical, controls, structural, manufacturing, reliability, cost, compliance, and technical risk.
- Lead technical design reviews and NPI readiness, ensuring key engineering decisions are supported by appropriate analysis, risk assessment, testing, and validation evidence.
- Define and implement product verification, validation, and compliance strategies, including system-performance testing, internal and external testing, certification activities, and evaluation of results against engineering requirements.
- Provide technical leadership from prototyping and engineering builds through design verification, product validation, and production launch, including hands-on troubleshooting and engineering support as needed.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply, suppliers, Product Management, and Project Management to drive component selection, manufacturability, technical qualification, product requirements, risk mitigation, and production readiness.
- Mentor and influence multidisciplinary engineering teams without direct reporting authority, while promoting strong technical ownership, standardized solutions, lessons learned, and reuse across the Data Solutions product portfolio.
YOU HAVE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including technical leadership of thermal-management, liquid-cooling, fluid-distribution, or comparable electromechanical products from requirements through production launch.
- Solid understanding of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, heat transfer, pumps, valves, heat exchangers, piping, fittings, sensors, and related system components.
- Experience developing system architectures and integrating mechanical and fluid systems with electrical and controls architectures to deliver complete product solutions.
- Experience applying engineering design, risk, and validation methodologies such as DFMEA, DFM/DFMA, DRBFM, technical readiness assessments, structured design reviews, and verification and validation.
- Proven track record of leading multidisciplinary teams, making technically sound trade-offs, and tackling complex system-level problems using engineering fundamentals, analysis, test data, and structured problem-solving.
- Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear decisions, risks, recommendations, and actions while mentoring engineers.
- Experience partnering with manufacturing teams and suppliers through prototype, validation, qualification, and production-launch activities.
- Ability to travel up to 10% domestically.
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:
$105,000.00 - $195,000.00
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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