Lead NPI Engineer: Prototyping & Manufacturing Readiness

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

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.