Entry Level Design Engineer (12 Month Temp)

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

In this position, you will get to:

• Proactively establish customer relationships at appropriate levels and manage client expectations relative to technical execution methodologies, scope, schedule, progress, and technical change management. Impact to the work in own department and occasionally to other areas and functions.
• Basic understanding of customer priorities.
• Applies professional engineering techniques to design and manufacture products at the lowest overall cost and enhance product value to the customer by either Project, Product or Value Engineering.
• Frequently expected to choose the most appropriate solution.
• Responsible for research & development and design of new or existing products.
• Basic knowledge of standard processes and systems.
• Using advanced software such as NavisWorks, Smart Plant, AutoCAD and our in-house programs TRACERLYNX and PROMAN to optimize our design process.
• Contributing toward the team environment and shared culture of nVent.
• Develops resolution of problems of limited scope following standard procedures.
• Provides engineering design and analysis within assigned project scope of work. This includes conceptual studies, cost and planning studies, layouts, specification development, and engineering drawings. Assumes responsibility for cost, schedule, quantity, and budget control for the engineering scope of work.
• Performing various engineering and circuit design tasks within our innovative paperless workflow process.

You Have

• Possess solid time management skills.
• Ordinary/common courtesy
• Previous EHT design experience is an asset, but not required.
• Under general supervision; ability to exercise judgment; receives clear instructions from supervisor on what to do and how to do it.
• Must have an undergraduate Electrical Engineering degree or Technologist Diploma from an accredited university or College.
• Must be either formally registered, or in training, to be a Professional Engineer or Professional Technologist in the Province of Alberta and have specific knowledge of the Alberta Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act, APEGA Regulations, APEGA Code of Ethics, APEGA By-Laws, ASET Regulations, and APEGA Professional Technologists Regulations - particularly as they apply to the relevant application of members' stamps and Permit to Practice approvals on issued drawings and specifications.

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
• At nVent, we connect and protect a more sustainable and electrified world with inventive electrical solutions. We’re a nearly $3 billion high-performance electrical company with a dedicated team of 10,000+ people at more than 130 sites around the world. Our solutions deliver value to industrial, commercial, residential, energy and infrastructure customers, providing mission critical solutions that improve performance, lower costs and reduce downtime.
• We design, manufacture, market, install and service high-performance products and solutions that connect and protect mission critical equipment, buildings and essential processes. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, RAYCHEM, SCHROFF and TRACER.

• Focused on the customer first
• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:
• Accountable for performance
• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work
• Innovative & adaptable
• Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money
• Benefits to support the lives of our employees
• Dedicated to absolute integrity
• We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide
• Optimistic and energizing
• Respectful and team oriented

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.