NPI Engineer

The New Product Introduction Engineer is responsible for the efficient and effective transition of a product design “concept” into an effectively producible “Product”.   The NPI engineer is the key interface between the customer/design development team and the production team. In order to ensure the product can effectively be produced in a repeatable and cost effective manner, the NPI engineer conducts design analysis and consulting to ensure the design meets the minimum requirements for manufacturing, test, repair ability, quality, reliability, service, and of course cost.

 

As the main interface, and the first technical production person to become involved in a product design, the NPI engineer will manage all technical aspects of the product.  This includes ‘project management’ activity related to the development, prototyping, qualifications and release of all product designs, as well as associated processes required to manufacture the product.  If new equipment technology is required, he/she will be key in driving the development, either personally or through other technical support teams such as manufacturing, test or quality engineering.

 The NPI engineer is ultimately responsible for ensuring the product meets all cost, quality and delivery targets, and therefore will personally conduct and support all pre-production and prototype product builds, as well as process qualifications.  They will “own” the product until it is at a state of maturity that the product and processes can be reliably transitioned to a “sustaining” manufacturing environment and support teams.

·  Support customer quote estimating activities.
·  Ensuring customer’s information and data outputs meet EE tech’s data requirements.
·  Acquire related product CAD/Gerber/Placement files, Stencil orders, BOM’s, Manufacturing and special instructions, marking/label/SN#/packaging requirements, solder/RoHS/cleaning requirements, test requirements, development and validation.
·  Ensuring the internal team is communicated to, understands schedule/requirements and expectations, and has information in a timely fashion.
·  Communicates status, issues, shipments to Sales
·  Provides all required new build and status reports to customers.
·  Ensures line scheduling, documentation, test, process and materials readiness through related team members.
·  Schedules, executes and manages the initial NPI production runs.
·  Manages issues and fixes along with production and support teams.
·  Owns the product until successful validation run is complete.


·  Transfers product to manufacturing engineering if meets success criteria Evaluate, implement and monitor manufacturing equipment and processes for the manufacture of printed circuit boards and electro-mechanical sub-assemblies. 


·  Responsible for technical support and problem solving for all un-released products.

·  Responsible for development of all new processes.

·  Works closely with production and engineering teams to manage product design and builds.

·  Create, edit and maintain necessary documentation.

·  Product design (DFX) & capability studies.

·  Defect reduction initiatives.

·  Changeover improvements, line set-up and flexibility

·  Product deviations and ECN review/management.

·  Technical Personnel training.


o Bachelors Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience

o 3-5 years experience in related field required.

o Strong emphasis on PCB manufacturing, automation and thermal reflow systems.

o Proficiency with computer software programs (Microsoft products, AutoCAD),  Agis Preferred.
o Thorough understanding of the quality management system.



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