NPI Engineer: New Product Intro & Lean Automation

Evolve Personnel; Stourbridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Evolve Personnel in the United Kingdom seeks a skilled NPI Engineer to lead new product introductions with a focus on quality and efficiency. The role involves coordinating sample processes, improving NPI workflows, and ensuring smooth transitions of new products.

You will work with tooling engineers, suppliers and internal teams to optimise manufacturing layouts, maintain BOMs and data logging, and promote lean manufacturing and continuous improvement across projects.

Qualifications

• Experience applying quality tools (PPAP/APQP preferred).
• Ability to manage quality aspects of NPI and prototype manufacture.
• Ability to implement best-practice solutions.
• Ability to optimise manufacturing methods and tooling/rigging layouts.
• Maintain NPI processes to ensure data logging of manufacturing information.
• Liaise with subcontract tooling engineers/pattern shops.
• Familiarity with quality operations PPAP/APQP or equivalent.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Experience applying quality tools

NPI/Prototype quality management

Best-practice solutions

Manufacturing methods & tooling layout

NPI data logging

Liaising with subcontract tooling

PPAP/APQP familiarity

Job description

Evolve Personnel in the United Kingdom seeks a skilled NPI Engineer to lead new product introductions with a focus on quality and efficiency. The role involves coordinating sample processes, improving NPI workflows, and ensuring smooth transitions of new products.

You will work with tooling engineers, suppliers and internal teams to optimise manufacturing layouts, maintain BOMs and data logging, and promote lean manufacturing and continuous improvement across projects.