VP, Operations Engineering & NPI Excellence

Nextpower; Fremont (CA); In loco; USD 250.000 - 350.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Nextpower seeks a VP of Operations Engineering to lead the transformation of our portfolio into a scalable, globally competitive product platform. You will own NPI and the industrialization, driving CpK, cost, and cycle-time improvements across design, manufacturing, and supply chain.

You will shape an integrated, high-performing Ops Engineering organization, partnering with Product, Manufacturing and Quality, to accelerate new product introductions and ensure production readiness for

Competenze

• Proven executive leadership in NPI, product industrialization, engineering, manufacturing, and/or supply chain within complex hardware businesses.
• Experience taking products from development through qualification, production ramp, and commercial scale.
• Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, power electronics, controls, software, manufacturing, and supplier ecosystems.
• Demonstrated success integrating acquisitions, technologies, suppliers, and organizations.
• Strong commercial orientation with experience managing cost, quality, schedule, capacity, and supply risk.

Mansioni

• Own the NPI process from R&D handoff to the Supply Chain volume capable handoff, collaborating with Product Engineering, Supply Chain, Sales and other functions for continuous improvement throughout the development and go-to-market process.
• Continuously improve the stage-gate NPI process, design reviews, configuration management, change control, and launch-readiness product introductions.
• Own and Drive Design for Manufacturing, Assembly, Cost, Quality, Service, and Supply Chain (DFx) into product development.
• Partner with Product, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure products are commercially scalable with an effective blend of quality, cost, and functionality.
• Establish launch metrics and accountability for schedule, cost, quality, yield, reliability, and supply readiness.
• Drive ongoing quality, CpK, and cost goals with supplier quality, process engineering, should-cost analysis, and design-to-cost initiatives.
• Establish data acquisition and SPC monitoring; integrate supplier strategy into product development and NPI.
• Innovate and streamline NPI transitions to Supply Chain for sourcing, qualification, dual-sourcing, localization, capacity planning, and supply risk mitigation.
• Build and lead a high-performing Ops Engineering organization capable of ramping new products and improving CpK, quality, cost, and cycle time.

Descrizione del lavoro

Nextpower seeks a VP of Operations Engineering to lead the transformation of our portfolio into a scalable, globally competitive product platform. You will own NPI and the industrialization, driving CpK, cost, and cycle-time improvements across design, manufacturing, and supply chain.

You will shape an integrated, high-performing Ops Engineering organization, partnering with Product, Manufacturing and Quality, to accelerate new product introductions and ensure production readiness for