NPI Manufacturing Engineer – US Factory Start-up

EH Group; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EH Group is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to lead NPI and industrialization in Houston, establishing US operations and transferring Swiss processes. The role is onsite with frequent travel to partner sites and periodic travel to Nyon, Switzerland.

You will own design-for-manufacture feedback, develop work instructions, transfer process records from Nyon to Houston, and deploy the manual stack assembly and roll-to-roll production lines.

Qualifications

• BSc/MSc in manufacturing, mechanical, mechatronic or industrial engineering is mandatory.
• 5–8 years of manufacturing engineering experience in an assembly or automation environment.
• Demonstrated experience installing, commissioning and qualifying production equipment.
• Experience writing work instructions and process documentation in a controlled quality system (ISO 9001 or equivalent).
• Experience working at or with external manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers or system integrators.
• Working knowledge of Lean manufacturing, line balancing, process validation and statistical process control.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the on‑site engineering presence at packaging and integration partner facilities — reviewing build plans against our design, resolving producibility issues in real time, and supporting first‑article builds.
• Own design‑for‑manufacture feedback between partner sites, US operations and the engineering team in Nyon.
• Develop, validate and mature work instructions, process documentation and routings for US operations, in line with the EH quality management system.
• Lead the transfer of the process of record from Nyon to Houston — including tooling, fixtures, layouts, cycle‑time balancing and operator training material.
• Deploy and commission the manual stack assembly line in the US, building on proven Swiss process and learning.
• Deploy and commission roll‑to‑roll production equipment in the US, working alongside the equipment supplier through installation, acceptance testing and process qualification.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Line balancing

Process validation

Statistical process control

CAD

Education

BSc/MSc in manufacturing, mechanical, mechatronic or industrial engineering

Tools

CAD

ERP systems

Job description

EH Group is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to lead NPI and industrialization in Houston, establishing US operations and transferring Swiss processes. The role is onsite with frequent travel to partner sites and periodic travel to Nyon, Switzerland.

You will own design-for-manufacture feedback, develop work instructions, transfer process records from Nyon to Houston, and deploy the manual stack assembly and roll-to-roll production lines.