Lead NPI Engineer - Prototyping, Assembly & DFx

Latitude Recruitment; Park Gate; In loco; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Latitude Recruitment is seeking a Lead NPI Engineer for our engineering client near Fareham. You will own electro-mechanical development from prototyping through to production introduction, ensuring manufacturability and robust documentation.

Key duties include leading NPI activities, building pilot and OIB plans, developing detailed work instructions, and mentoring others while working with design, quality and production teams to reduce risk and costs.

Competenze

• Knowledge in electro-mechanical assembly and product build environments.
• Technically minded with experience supporting prototype, NPI, and production activities.
• Able to build, test, and debug products to meet 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

• 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.
• 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.

Conoscenze

Electro-mechanical

Prototype support

NPI

Documentation

Design for manufacture

Mentoring

Defence industry

Descrizione del lavoro

Latitude Recruitment is seeking a Lead NPI Engineer for our engineering client near Fareham. You will own electro-mechanical development from prototyping through to production introduction, ensuring manufacturability and robust documentation.

Key duties include leading NPI activities, building pilot and OIB plans, developing detailed work instructions, and mentoring others while working with design, quality and production teams to reduce risk and costs.