Senior NPI Engineer
Responsible for leading the transition of new products from R&D to production, ensuring manufacturing readiness, product quality, and time-to-market execution. Manage engineering changes, BOM, documentation, and production tools. Provide engineering support to production and cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead NPI activities and coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure successful product transfer from R&D to production.
- Improve manufacturability, assembly process, product quality, reliability, and cost during product transfer.
- Support engineering changes, ECO processes, configuration control, BOM updates, and product documentation.
- Prepare and support Production Readiness Review activities, including schedules, risks, and open issues.
- Develop, define, and validate production tools, jigs, fixtures, and testers for new products.
- Provide engineering support to production lines, subcontractors, sourcing, and customer support.
- Lead technical investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for production, quality, or field issues.
- Work closely with R&D, Operations, Quality, Sourcing, Product, Service, and Engineering teams as the NPI focal point.
Requirements
- At least 5+ years of experience as an NPI Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, or Mechanical Engineer in a multidisciplinary product environment.
- BSc in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Proven experience in leading NPI processes and transferring products from R&D to production.
- Experience with configuration control, BOM management, ECO processes, technical documentation, and production readiness activities.
- Hands-on experience with production support, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis of multidisciplinary systems.
- Experience with SolidWorks and mechanical design review.
- Project management capabilities, ability to lead tasks, prioritize actions, manage schedules, and drive execution.
- Team player with high motivation, strong communication skills, and ownership mindset.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of GD&T is an advantage.
- Agile / Oracle experience is an advantage.