Product Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description

The NPME (New Product Manufacturing Engineer) is responsible for commercialization of newly designed products and features, taking them from initial designs to volume manufacturing operations. The daily tasks include review, evaluation, and modification of engineering designs to facilitate manufacturability at the supplier level and in manufacturing operations. Engineering change order creation is part of the role, providing design enhancements and kit structure to enable manufacturing.

The NPME uses modeling and drafting software routinely in the course of their role, principally Unigraphics/NX. They also use Teamcenter to access designs at all stages in the new product development process. A knowledge of supplier and internal manufacturing processes and the ability to engage with suppliers and manufacturing to resolve issues is an added qualification for the NPME role.

Product structure, bill of materials, product safety requirements, material handling, and root cause analysis.

Requires demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing engineering discipline, theories, practices and principles.

Requires knowledge necessary to perform the job function such as an understanding of the engineering change order process, DFx (Design for Excellence) engineering principles, product development process, value engineering, engineering specification waiver process, producibility / manufacturability analysis.