New Product Industrialization Engineer

New Product Industrialization Engineer

Location: Norwalk, CT(hybrid) Initially remote

Introduction to the job:

NPI engineers develops and maintains a relationship with our suppliers to drive the industrialization efforts of the manufacturing process of electrical components and parts. This individual works closely with the suppliers and our cross-sector development teams to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of the product generation process, in alignment with our project. The main goal of this cross-sector activity is to secure an excellent quality of parts delivered by our suppliers.

NOTE: This is a technical position in a highly technical company and not a general Quality Assurance/Black Belt/Lean Manufacturing role. The ideal candidate has a combination of a strong technical/manufacturing expertise combined with a quality assurance background.

Role and Responsibilities:

Within the D&E organization, the Electrical NPI engineer is the primary person responsible for creating an optimal engineering collaboration between the electrical suppliers and our organization, starting from early supplier involvement through product design and maturity. As part of the D&E project team, this individual works closely with their suppliers to understand and leverage their technology and processes and integrate these processes into our new product development projects to drive industrialization efforts.

The main responsibilities are:

• Early supplier involvement in the D&E project to secure that technology expertise of co-development and supplier are merged in the best way.
• Ensure that part quality, manufacturability and serviceability aspects are covered in the design phase.
• Document the D&E project collaboration, including supplier & co-development responsibilities and roles via a Statement of Work (SoW).
• Support and own new product introduction (NPI) and support early supplier selection and engagement.

Deliverables that secure parts quality from suppliers in the co-development product generation process, such as:

• Acceptance of the design and/or specification of complete & detailed parts qualification process.
• Acceptance of qualified parts.
• Process flow and Process failure mode effect analysis.
• First article inspection.
• Business demands will require travel (~20% but could be more during escalation situations and with notice).
• Define and maintain supplier interface processes, such as: Issue resolution.
• Qualification deviation.
• Configuration management.
• Our factory disturbances.

Contribute to supplier development to improve operational excellence by driving execution of existing agreements, improvement actions, and participation in supplier audits. The NPI eng is part of the D&E project team and, therefore, interfaces with project leaders, design engineers, architects, manufacturing & customer support engineers, logistics, procurement, etc.

Required Key Skills:

• Willing to consider candidates with 2-5 years of experience
• Willing to look at a more junior Electronic Design Engineer who is open to getting foot in door to move into design work
• Experience designing boards and cables.
• Manufacturing test experience: experience in PCB visual and functional testing, In-Circuit Test (ICT) and cable testing (as a minimum).
• Manufacturing processes experience: detailed knowledge of manufacturing techniques for cables/connectors, PCB Assembly, programmable logic, and electrical rack/cabinet assembly.
• Technical improvement projects in supply chain operations.
• Experience designing boards and cables.
• Manufacturing test experience: experience in PCB visual and functional testing, In-Circuit Test (ICT) and cable testing (as a minimum).
• Manufacturing processes experience: detailed knowledge of manufacturing techniques for cables/connectors, PCB Assembly, programmable logic and electrical rack/cabinet assembly.
• Technical improvement projects in supply chain operations.
• Value Engineering and cost-reduction projects.
• Working closely with suppliers on technical/manufacturing process development including mFLOW, pFMEA, SPC, RCA, etc.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree/Masters - Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering