NPI Engineer II

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Job Title

NPI Engineer II

As the NPI Engineer, you will manage the transition of products from design/R&D to volume manufacturing, ensuring quality, cost-efficiency, and functionality. Key duties include optimizing production processes, designing tooling/fixtures, creating work instructions, conducting validation tests (PFMEA, DFX), and bridging communication between design and production teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ensure product quality and reliability through testing, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration across R&D, operations, and supply chain.
• Lead design-for-manufacturability, process development, and validation to ensure efficient, scalable production.
• Drive production ramp-up, including establishing workflows, tooling, documentation, and manufacturing lines.
• Product costing & technical review for Repeat items, Revision change, and new item with similar design (NPI levels 1-3). Support for new items with new design that fit existing capabilities (NPI 4).
• Develop and review customer approval drawings including design for manufacturability for new design concepts.
• Support commercial customer interactions related to NPI and continued product development.
• Support and manage prototyping efforts including hands on creation and evaluation of product and production processes.
• Set up and update BOM and routings. Validate and maintain BOM and routings to production hand off.
• May develop, review or consult on tooling design.
• May assist with CAD/CAM tool path set up or update and identify improvement opportunities.
• May lead or support projects such as Scrap and Productivity, EHS, New Product Introduction, and Escalations.
• Manage Change Control through development cycle to production hand off.
• Support operators and gather production feedback to improve and develop processes where applicable.
• May utilize process control systems (PCS) and Statistical Process Controls (SPC) to effectively maintain and improve product and process quality.
• May support cost controls and develop tools such as dashboards.
• Build subject matter expertise on processing techniques and materials.
• May judge and handle suspect or abnormal product/process.
• Provide assistance and guidance to lower-level engineers, programmers, tooling engineers.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Electrical preferred.
• 4+ year's of experience in manufacturing engineering and product development.

Functional/Technical Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Proficient in CAD software, 3D modeling, statistical data analysis, and Project Management tools.
• Experience with CNC machining preferred including CAM packages such as Mastercam.
• Strong project management, communication, and troubleshooting skills.
• General understanding of materials and characteristics including material formulations and shrink rates for manufacturing product lines.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, machining techniques, and associated tooling/fixture design.
• Ability to recognize others meaningfully and frequently, uses feedback to build confidence and respect, adapts communication to workplace styles, and actively participates in team-building activities.
• Ability to communicate using empathy, influence, and an adaptive approach to accurately and persuasively create dialogue.

Target Hiring Range

Annual Salary: USD 92,000.00 - USD 121,440.00

Actual compensation is commensurate with experience, skills and education. CoorsTek strives to give all qualified applicants equal opportunity and to make selection decisions on job related factors. Do not provide any information on the application which will indicate your race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law or regulation.

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