
Lean Leader Nvent Engineered Building
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The Lean Leader will champion lean manufacturing and business processes across nVent’s Engineered Building Solutions business. The role shapes long-term lean strategies, mentors site practitioners, and leads data-driven projects and kaizen events. It also owns lean metrics and dashboards. The posting seeks a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management or a related field and ideally 12+ years of continuous improvement experience; six sigma certification is preferred.
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JOB REQUIREMENTS: 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: Be a visible lean leader forour Engineered Building Solutions (EBS) business by championing the application of nVent lean manufacturing and business processes, tools and methodologies across the business. Shape the future of leanby defining, developing and deploying long-term strategies that drive best-in-class lean systems and improvement practices across our sites. Lead and mentor site lean practitionersacross the business unit including training improvement teams in lean transformation philosophy, approach, activity and tools. Serve as a SME on lean related topics for the business unit. Be a change agent and drive meaningful transformationby leading data driven projects and kaizen events across the business unit. Own and elevate lean metrics and dashboards,helping define meaningful KPIs, introduce future focused metrics, and establish clear operation definitions that enable accurate, consistent reporting across the organization. YOU HAVE: A Bachelor's degree in Operations Management or related field. Ideally 12+ years business process or manufacturing continuous improvement experience in a lean environment. Experience in an engineered to order environment is a plus. Demonstrated skills in implementing, instructing and deploying Lean Methodologies in Manufacturing, Distribution and Transactional applications; six sigma certification preferred. Knowledge of process improvement concepts and methods, with the flexibility to adapt and support new processes in a dynamic business environment. Ability to build relationships and influence all levels in the organization in a highly matrixed organization. Outstanding project management and organizational skills. Ability to travel 35% of the time on average and work out of our Houston TX, Madison WI, or Oshkosh WI locations. 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,... For full info follow application link. At nVent, we are committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, federal, state or local law. ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/919038B06EC64F6D
How this job compares
Set against the 455 open Continuous Improvement jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$108–161K/yr204 salary ranges
- US median$23–26/hr30 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 34 open Continuous Improvement jobs in Wisconsin and 455 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Wisconsin
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- Experience
- Continuous Improvement postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (309 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 200 of the 455 open Continuous Improvement jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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