NPI/Development Engineer

We are recruiting for an NPI/Development Engineer to join an established Manufacturing business based in the Dudley area. The NPI Engineer will create long term relationships with customers ensuring that expectations are met also improving efficiency/effectiveness with strong skills in service delivery.

As an NPI/Development Engineer you will be required to:

1. Report activities to customers and stakeholders providing weekly status updates
2. Create an enhanced NPI process that coordinates sample process from start to finish
3. Work on projects to support the optimisation of energy and ensuring that objectives for sustainable manufacturing are met
4. Coordinate sample process from start to finish
5. Work closely with tooling engineers, external suppliers, technical resource and contractors
6. Support concepts and strategies for the automisation and digitisation of work booking and work flow
7. Maintain the development of a BOM bill of materials and scope for ERP manufacturing systems that can integrate data management
8. Review Product documentation (Workflow documentation, Production Data)
9. Identify and support procurement of new tools required for new projects/production
10. Ensure a smooth transition of any new products
11. Review best practices and implement learnings
12. Promote lean manufacturing/continuous improvement tools where needed
13. Coordinate and maintain QC systems

Requirements:

1. Experienced in the application of quality tools
2. Able to project manage quality aspects to NPI and Prototype manufacture
3. Able to implement best practice solutions
4. Able to optimise methods of manufacturing and layout of tooling/rigging
5. Upgrade and maintain NPI to ensure that all manufacturing data is logged
6. Able to liaise with subcontract tooling engineers/pattern shops
7. Familiar with quality operations PPAP/APQP or equivalent

If you would be interested in the position of NPI/Development Engineer please apply now and we will be in touch shortly.