Position: NPI Engineer
Location: Stourbridge Hours: Monday – Friday, 07:00 AM – 16:00 PM
Salary: 40,000 – 50,000 Job Type: Full-time, permanently employed by the business
Are you a dynamic professional ready to make a significant impact? Our client is seeking a talented individual to join their expanding team, playing a pivotal role in their mission to deliver exceptional customer service and quality assurance. This business is dedicated to building long-term partnerships with its OEM customers, and they need someone who can drive their commercial strategy by enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Market expansion – Work closely with sales to explore new markets and applications.
- Communication & Reporting – Be the voice of clarity and precision, delivering weekly status updates and leading pre-production kick-off meetings with finesse.
- Process Management – Navigate predefined, measurable steps with key checkpoints, ensuring smooth transitions from one phase to the next.
- Sample Coordination – Own the sample process from inception to completion, leaving no detail overlooked.
- Collaboration – Forge strong partnerships with tooling engineers, external suppliers, and technical resources, driving excellence in every interaction.
- NPI Management: Upgrade and maintain NPI processes, ensuring all manufacturing data is logged and deliveries are tracked.
- Quality Monitoring – Keep a vigilant eye on outgoing shipments, striving to minimise scrap and uphold quality standards.
- Yield Improvement – Champion projects aimed at yield improvement and the reduction of non-added value work.
- Documentation Review – Scrutinise production documentation, ensuring accuracy and traceability of production data.
- Development – Pursue innovative methodologies that produce impeccable castings.
- Rework Management – Document rework meticulously while relentlessly reducing manufacturing costs and eliminating rework.
- Design Modifications – Lead design modifications that enhance quality, reduce lead time, and cut tooling and manufacturing costs.
- Tool Procurement – Identify and procure new tools essential for new projects and production.
- Leadership – Be a beacon of positive change, inspiring the department through exemplary leadership.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven expertise in quality tools essential to NPI (DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plans, process/quality auditing).
- Strong project management skills, particularly in quality aspects of NPI and prototype manufacture.
- Proficiency in Excel and Word.
- Exceptional communication and coordination abilities.
- Collaborative mindset with a knack for working with diverse teams and external suppliers.
- Experience in Simulation Software is ideal.
- Analytical and problem-solving prowess.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles.
If you have the relevant experience as an NPI Engineer and are looking for a long-term career with progression opportunities, apply today and be part of a thriving team!
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