Lead NPI Engineer

Latitude Recruitment; Fareham; In loco; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Latitude Recruitment is helping a Fareham-area engineering client to recruit a Lead NPI Engineer. You will oversee mechanical, electronic and support aspects of validating and introducing new product developments into manufacturing and the supply chain.

You will create clear work instructions, build prototypes, and collaborate across design, quality and production to ensure repeatable, cost-effective manufacture.

Competenze

• Experience in electro-mechanical assembly and product build environments.
• Experience supporting prototype, NPI and production activities.
• Ability to build, test, and debug products per customer and quality requirements.
• Experience producing documentation and work instructions.
• Exposure to design for manufacture.
• Experience leading or mentoring others.
• Defence industry and product experience.

Mansioni

• Lead NPI activities to introduce new products into production, addressing manufacturability risks.
• Assist in pre-sales design activities to estimate NPI effort, tooling, tests and costs.
• Prepare NPI build plans with roles, schedules and resources.
• Develop detailed work instructions using build photos and lessons learned.
• Design tooling, fixtures, process FMEAs and supporting docs.
• Participate in design reviews and recommend manufacturability improvements.
• Support root cause investigation and feedback into design, quality and production control.

Conoscenze

Electro-mechanical assembly

Prototype support

NPI knowledge

Design for manufacture

Leadership / mentoring

Defence industry experience

Manufacturability optimization

Descrizione del lavoro

Our engineering clients based close to Fareham have an exciting opportunity for a Lead NPI Engineer to join their growing team.

The Lead NPI Engineer will be responsible for the mechanical, electronic and support aspects of validating and introducing new product developments into manufacturing and the supply chain. This includes creating and maintaining accurate work instructions for the production line to ensure consistency of product, developing, building and testing prototype units and evaluating and debugging the design. The role is of a technical nature but can’t be completed without cross-functional support so maintaining excellent relationships with these teams is essential.

NPI Development:

• Manage the introduction of new products into production, ensuring manufacturability issues are identified and resolved before full-rate production begins, and reducing risk from design oversights.
• Support the development of non-recurring engineering (NRE) estimates, including participation in pre-sales design activities to agree the NPI approach and estimate effort, tooling, test equipment and other project costs.
• Prepare NPI build plans for OIB / pilot builds, including agreed roles, responsibilities, schedule and required resources.
• Develop detailed work instructions, using build photos and build learning from initial assemblies, to standardise manufacturing methods for new products and engineering changes.
• Design and develop tooling, fixtures, process FMEAs and supporting documentation in line with project requirements.
• Participate in design reviews and make practical recommendations to improve manufacturability, simplify assembly and reduce overall cost.

Prototyping & Assessment

• Build new products and prototypes with minimal or no prior instruction, in line with customer specifications and quality standards.
• Work collaboratively with design and production teams to document, build and verify prototype parts, and train manufacturing operators where required.
• Analyse build and test failures, recommend corrective actions, and assess associated cost, timing and technical risks.
• Track, record and report bugs, nonconformances and issues identified during prototype, test and NPI builds.
• Highlight NPI and product risks to the Project Manager and Project Engineers in a timely and structured way.
• Recommend design or process modifications based on prototype build and test results.
• Support root cause investigation and feedback of issues into design, quality and production control processes.

Required Skills & Responsibilities:

• Knowledge in electro-mechanical assembly and product build environments.
• Technically minded, with practical experience supporting prototype, NPI, and production activities.
• Able to build, test, and debug products in line with customer and quality requirements.
• Experience producing documentation and work instructions
• Exposure to Design for manufacture
• Experience leading or mentoring others
• Defence industry and product experience

Working hours: 37.5 hours – Monday – Friday