Manager of Product Introduction; NPI

GTI is a contract manufacturing partner supporting customers in renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure, and industrial systems. We fabricate custom designed, purpose-built enclosures and skids for our customers and perform mechanical and electrical integration in-house, delivering a true turn‑key product to our customers. Our scope spans engineering, prototype builds, through full production, requiring teams that can move fast, adapt, and execute with precision.

GTI Values:
Safey I Quality I Customer Obsession I Speed I Agility

GTI Energy is seeking an NPI Manager to lead programmatic execution of New Product Introduction initiatives across multiple product lines and customer programs. This role is responsible for driving projects through defined phase gates, coordinating cross‑functional deliverables, managing timelines, escalating risks, and ensuring launch readiness from concept through production release.

Unlike a highly technical engineering leadership role, the NPI Manager is a functional execution leader focused on program governance, milestone attainment, business readiness, and cross‑functional accountability. This role ensures GTI moves products to market quickly, cleanly, and with operational readiness.

The ideal candidate has strong experience leading product launches, engineering programs, manufacturing transfers, or complex cross‑functional initiatives in industrial, manufacturing, OEM, or engineered‑to‑order environments.

• Lead multiple New Product Introduction programs from concept through pilot build, validation, launch, and production ramp
• Drive projects through structured phase gate milestones with clear deliverables, owners, and due dates
• Maintain overall program plans, timelines, readiness trackers, and critical path schedules
• Ensure cross‑functional teams meet commitments required for gate approvals and launch progression
• Facilitate gate review meetings with leadership and stakeholders

• Coordinate Engineering, AME, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, Planning, Finance, and Commercial teams throughout product launch lifecycle
• Drive accountability across teams for drawings, BOMs, tooling, sourcing, capacity, quality plans, and documentation readiness
• Align internal resources to changing priorities in a fast‑growth environment

• Ensure manufacturing readiness for new products including labor plans, routings, tooling status, training, work instructions, and material availability
• Support pilot builds, first articles, validation runs, and production ramp plans
• Confirm readiness of ERP data, BOM structures, inventory setup, and production controls
• Coordinate successful handoff from development teams into sustained operations

• Identify launch risks related to schedule, design maturity, suppliers, quality, capacity, or cost
• Build mitigation plans and drive closure with accountable owners
• Escalate unresolved issues quickly with clear recommendations and decision needs
  
  Maintain risk registers and executive visibility dashboards

• Provide regular status updates to executive leadership, commercial teams, and internal stakeholders
• Support customer‑facing program meetings where required regarding timelines, readiness, and milestones
• Translate technical complexity into concise business updates and decisions
• Maintain strong communication cadence across all functions

• Improve GTI’s phase gate process, launch governance, templates, readiness checklists, and reporting systems
• Standardize launch metrics and lessons learned processes across product lines
• Reduce missed milestones, late engineering changes, poor handoffs, and launch instability
• Drive scalable NPI systems to support hyper‑growth product expansion

• Track and report KPIs including on‑time gate completion, launch readiness, engineering release timing, supplier readiness, first pass yield during launch, ramp
• Build executive scorecards for NPI portfolio visibility
• Drive corrective…