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Sr. Facilities Supervisor

nVent · New Berlin, WI · Full time

Posted Aug 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a preventive maintenance program you built or improved. What changed in downtime?

What they are checking: Whether they can show measured reliability gains from a planned maintenance program.

Tell me about a time you helped a technician grow their skills.

What they are checking: Whether they invest in their team instead of just assigning work orders.

How do you manage outside contractors who come in for facility repairs?

What they are checking: Whether they can hold vendors to quality, safety and cost expectations.

What would you do

A conveyor goes down during peak shipping and the order pickers are also due for service. How do you prioritize?

What they are checking: Whether they can triage maintenance work by impact on distribution operations.

The access control system or cameras stop working overnight. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they treat building security systems as critical and respond with urgency.

A technician keeps closing work orders without fully fixing the problem. How do you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they address performance issues directly and fairly.

About the work

What's your experience maintaining forklifts, order pickers and conveyors? What fails most often?

What they are checking: Whether they know distribution center equipment well enough to plan for its common failures.

How would you start using predictive maintenance on equipment that has only been fixed when it breaks?

What they are checking: Whether they understand condition monitoring and how to introduce it step by step.

How do you decide which spare parts to keep on hand?

What they are checking: Whether they balance inventory cost against the risk of long downtime waiting for parts.

How do you keep maintenance work safe, especially lockout/tagout on DC equipment?

What they are checking: Whether they enforce safe work practices for their own team and contractors.

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The full job description

As published by nVent.

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. Looking for an opportunity where you can lead a team, make improvements, and have a real impact on day-to-day operations? At nVent, you'll help keep our New Berlin facility running smoothly by overseeing maintenance activities across our distribution center and office space. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll guide a skilled maintenance team, drive reliability improvements, support safety initiatives, and help create an efficient, well-maintained workplace. What You'll Experience in this position: • Lead and support the maintenance team, helping prioritize work, solve problems, and keep equipment running reliably. • Develop and improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce downtime and keep operations moving. • Oversee maintenance and repairs for distribution center equipment, including forklifts, order pickers, conveyors, and other critical equipment. • Help maintain a safe, secure facility, including building access systems, alarms, and cameras. • Drive continuous improvement efforts by improving maintenance schedules, managing spare parts inventory, and helping technicians grow their skills. • Troubleshoot and coordinate repairs on mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment. • Use PLC data and system information to help diagnose equipment issues. • Manage and improve the CMMS system to track work orders, maintenance activities, and equipment history. • Coordinate maintenance of building systems, including HVAC, lighting, alarm systems, offices, and common areas. • Work with outside vendors and contractors to ensure quality service and cost-effective solutions. • Lead site safety efforts, including supporting the Safety Committee and helping ensure compliance with EH&S and OSHA requirements. YOU HAVE: • 3+ years of maintenance, facilities, or industrial maintenance experience. • Previous experience leading, supervising, or coordinating maintenance teams is preferred. • Experience troubleshooting and repairing industrial equipment and facility systems. • Familiarity with CMMS systems and basic computer applications. • Forklift certification or operating experience is a plus. • Knowledge of EH&S requirements, OSHA regulations, and safe work practices. • Someone who enjoys working with people, solving problems, and finding ways to make things run better. 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 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. #LI-JT1 #LI-Onsite

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