**Your Job**
As an NPI (New Product Introduction) Engineer you play a crucial role in the manufacturing of new products. You are responsible for leading the introduction of new products, defining the manufacturing process flow, labor costing, identifying necessary tooling and equipment, and ensuring the products meet customer requirements.
**Our Team**
The NPI (New Product Introduction) team is responsible for a range of activities that are crucial to the successful introduction of new products such as pre production, project management, queality and risk management, as well as other parts of these processes.
**What You Will Do**
- Serve as the point of contact between the manufacturing site and the different design centers to obtain information and follow-up on New products.
- Perform the analysis, design, costing and evaluation of tools, machinery and process required for prototype production until release to mass production.
- Coordinate and collaborate with the different areas (quality, design, maintenance, testing, manufacturing, planning) to meet the launch dates of new products
- Maintain documentation and records applicable to the function in compliance with the requirements of the organization's quality management system.
**Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)**
- Previous proven experience on an NPI Role
- Previous knowledge in Manufacturing and/or Process Engineering
- Fiber Optic Processes and technologies
- Coordination, execution, monitoring, and problem solving in projects.
- Skills to lead, quote, manage new projects and products,
- Experience in managing tooling design and layout programs
- Experience in implementation of engineering changes and impact evaluation
- Experience in project transfers
- Validation of tooling and equipment in accordance with good manufacturing practices
- Carry out time and movement studies
- Optimization of processes
- Development and qualification of suppliers of tooling and equipment
- Production line support for new and transferred products
- Standard time calculations.
- Design and qualification of tooling
- Use and Knowledge of the Advanced Planning of the Quality of a Product. (APQP)
- Preparation, development, and release of internal control documents (Visual Aids, Control Plan, FMEA)
- Knowledge of Poka-Yoke systems
- Experience in root cause analysis and corrective actions (RAC, RDP, 8'D)
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen and 5s
- Advanced English (conversational)
- SAP experience
**Who We Are**
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading?edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results. #LI-UH1