NPI Engineer

New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer

Location:

Send, Woking, Surrey | Salary: £40,000 per annum + production bonus | Permanent

About the Role:

Working within the Design Department and based at our client's Head Office in Woking, the New Product Introduction (NPI) Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating and driving the successful delivery of new product development and introduction projects from initial concept through to production launch.

The role of NPI Engineer will establish and maintain effective project management processes, controls and reporting to ensure projects are delivered to agreed timescales, budgets, quality standards and technical requirements. The NPI Project Manager will coordinate and drive cross-functional activities across the business, ensuring that key milestones, dependencies, risks and actions are clearly identified, managed and communicated.

The role will act as a central point of coordination for NPI projects, providing clear visibility of project status, identifying potential issues and driving timely resolution of risks, decisions and actions across all relevant departments.
The role reports to the Head of Design.

What you will be doing:
Project Planning & New Product Introduction (NPI) Responsibilities:
In conjunction with the Head of Design, develop and establish project plans for new products, product enhancements and collaborative development programmes, defining key milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resources and timescales.
Support the delivery of other projects across the wider group, including:
Working with the Technology Exploitation Department (TED) to develop and manage customer-specific project plans.
Managing project activities associated with externally sourced products as part of the Sourced Products programme.
Lead and drive projects through the NPI process, ensuring that activities, milestones, dependencies, risks and actions are actively managed and that projects remain on track to agreed objectives.
The current five-phase NPI process is managed and supported through the Wrike platform.
Maintain accurate, live project plans and provide clear and timely project reporting to the Board of Directors, including progress against key milestones, significant risks, issues, dependencies and required decisions.
Establish and maintain effective project governance, including:
Organising and leading NPI and project review meetings.
Facilitating regular project risk reviews and ensuring appropriate mitigation actions are identified and tracked.
Coordinating key-stage/gate reviews and ensuring project plans are updated to reflect agreed decisions and actions.
Maintaining relevant NPI project documentation and ensuring appropriate version control and availability of project information.
Recording and tracking actions arising from project meetings, ensuring owners and target dates are clearly defined and followed through.
Coordinating prototype and pilot build purchasing plans in conjunction with the Purchasing Department.
Proactively identify risks, issues, resource constraints and dependencies that may impact project delivery, and drive their resolution through the appropriate stakeholders.
Escalate significant project risks, issues and delays to the Head of Design, Project Board or other appropriate stakeholders, ensuring that timely decisions and corrective actions are taken.

Other Responsibilities:

Plan and coordinate the manufacture of prototypes, both in-house and through external suppliers, ensuring prototype requirements are aligned with project milestones and priorities.
Coordinate workload and priorities with Toolroom resource.
Work closely with the Machine Shop Manager to agree manufacturing priorities and resolve capacity or scheduling constraints.
Coordinate with external prototype suppliers where required, ensuring agreed deliverables and timescales are maintained.
Through the embedded Purchaser in the Design Department, establish external supplier lead times and any impact this may have on the critical path.
Coordinate the management and availability of software, firmware and kit list documentation, ensuring the correct information is maintained and accessible to relevant project stakeholders.
Work alongside an embedded Purchaser to establish and monitor external supplier lead times.
Co-ordinate and support the maintenance of Bills of Materials (BOMs).
Coordinate and support prototype test and verification activities.
Coordinate and support CE approval activities.
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