Required Sr. Manager-AGM(NPD),Automotive Component.

Century NF Casting (CNFC); Delhi; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Century NF Casting (CNFC) is seeking a Senior Manager / AGM New Product Development to own the cost build-up and drive NPD for automotive components. You will coordinate interdisciplinary teams and ensure on-time delivery of quotes and part approvals.

The role requires deep hands-on experience with metal forming, APQP/PPAP in IATF 16949, and direct OEM engagement. Travel between Delhi NCR, Kharagpur and Palwal is expected.

Qualifications

• 15 to 20 years in automotive components, Tier-1 or Tier-2 supplying OEMs
• Hands-on with extrusion, forging, casting, stamping plus machining
• Owned new product introduction end to end, not a slice of it
• Fluent in APQP and PPAP in an IATF 16949 environment
• Direct OEM and Tier-1 customer handling, including commercial negotiation
• Degree in mechanical or production engineering

Responsibilities

• Receive customer drawings and run technical feasibility across die design, press operations, heat treatment and machining
• Build the cost build-up for every part quoted including metal, extrusion conversion, die cost, aging, heat treatment, tooling, inspection and margins; defend quotations
• Price negotiation and settlement; manage metal price pass-through and tooling terms
• Drive NPD through APQP PFMEA, control plan, die trials, PPAP submission and customer approval
• Handover to plant operations with frozen process parameters and agreed standard cost
• Lead the costing and NPD engineers; maintain enquiry-to-SOP tracker; review quoted vs actual cost and close gaps in next quotation

Skills

Costing ownership

APQP/PPAP

OEM handling

NPD ownership

Leadership

Education

Degree in mechanical or production engineering

Tools

SAP

Job description

Senior Manager / AGM New Product Development, Automotive Components

Reports to Director Based Delhi NCR, with regular travel to Kharagpur and Palwal Grade Senior Manager to AGM for a candidate who demonstrably builds the cost sheet himself

What you will own

Enquiry and feasibility. Receive customer drawings and enquiries. Run technical feasibility with die design, press operations, heat treatment and the machine shop section profile against press size and billet, alloy and temper against the application, tolerances against what our process actually holds, machining sequence against our capability. Decide what we quote and what we decline, and say why.

Costing and quotation. Own the cost build-up for every part quoted: metal, extrusion conversion, die cost and amortisation, recovery and yield, ageing and heat treatment, straightening and cutting, surface treatment, machining cycle time, tooling and fixtures, inspection, packing, freight, overhead and margin. Sign the quotation. Defend it to the customer line by line.

Commercial. Price negotiation and settlement. Metal price pass-through and RM indexing clauses. Die and tooling recovery terms. Commercial impact of engineering changes. Payment and delivery terms on new business.

Development. Drive the part through APQP PFMEA, control plan, die trials, dimensional and metallurgical validation, capability studies, PPAP submission and customer approval. Hold the timeline the customer was given.

SOP handover. Transfer the part to plant operations with process parameters frozen, standard cost agreed with plant finance, and capacity planned. The handover is not done until the plant can run it without you.

Team and governance. Lead the costing engineer and the NPD engineers. Maintain the enquiry-to-SOP tracker. Run win/loss analysis on quotations lost. Review quoted cost against actual cost at SOP on every part, and close the gap in the next quotation.

Who we are looking for

Non-negotiable. You have personally built cost sheets for metal components taken a drawing, decided the process route, and costed it element by element to a defensible number. Not reviewed one. Not negotiated one somebody else built. Built one. This is tested at interview.

Essential

• 15 to 20 years in automotive components, Tier-1 or Tier-2 supplying OEMs
• Hands-on with at least one metal-forming process extrusion, forging, casting, stamping plus machining
• Owned new product introduction end to end, not a slice of it
• Fluent in APQP and PPAP in an IATF 16949 environment
• Direct OEM and Tier-1 customer handling, including commercial negotiation
• Degree in mechanical or production engineering

Desirable

• Aluminium extrusion specifically billets, press sizes, die design and correction, recovery, ageing
• Machined and value-added components, with real exposure to cycle time and tooling economics
• Aerospace or defence work under AS9100D
• Export business, and familiarity with CBAM
• SAP, particularly product costing