NPI (New Product Introduction) Engineering Lead

A New Product Introduction Engineering Lead is responsible for overseeing the entire process of bringing new products to market, from manufacturing to launch. 

This role involves leading cross-functional teams, ensuring smooth transitions from research and development to production, and optimizing manufacturing processes for efficiency and quality. 

The NPI Lead will evaluate process efficiency, effectiveness, quality and safety from a point of view of critical areas on the NPI Process development. Identifying areas of opportunity for improvement, with the purpose of developing a solid and efficient process from the beginning, aimed to reduce waste, process time and standardize processes.

The NPI Lead has the responsibility to define production processes as simple yet capable to meet customer requirements. Manage and control efficiency, productivity and quality on processes, and development of lean tools.

At Morgan, we ensure the safety of travelers and enable the efficiency gains of modern aerospace engines through the development of turbine engine components with our industry leading material performance and high-volume production processes.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, implement, and verify processes to meet the customer requirements on NPI’s according to the standards on the Quality Management System (QMS).
• Lead and motivate multidisciplinary team to assure the development deliveries happened on time and with the quality standards
• Design, develop, and deploy process improvements to manufacturing processes, methods, and controls.
• Define and document 1^st run to meet the QMS.
• Develop a plan for tracking NPI flow, considering validation of tooling, injection plan and schedule priorities for production.
• Develop manufacturing Drawings, Bills of Materials, Routers, Work Instructions, and Control Plans using manufacturing engineering best practices to assure NPI’s longevity
• Develop New Products & trials to improve capability to meet Core Quality Requirements (CQR); APQP, PPAP, product and process validation, product audits, drawing & BOM conformance, and projects related to standard work & reduction in process variation.
• Validate reproducibility & repeatability (R&R) of multiple dimensional and inspection tools (MSA)
• Manage and coordinate Lean implementation tools to improve current efficiency
• Make process investigations and analysis of the production line to identify opportunity areas and improvement projects
• Evaluate and troubleshoot manufacturing, quality and production line issues using failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) and other problem-solving methods.
• Perform process capacity and capability analysis.
• Collaborate with other departments in the implementation of safety, continuous improvement, and site-wide lean activities.
• Collaborate with strong relationship between customer and US partners to assure developed projects satisfy customer needs and expectations.
• Make technical presentations and have strong communications skills
• Develop a high- level of proficiency with all production processes and related equipment.
• Ability to mentor engineers and help the development of a strong team.

• REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

  • Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Mechanical, Mechanical-Electrician, Mechatronic, Materials, or related disciplines.
  • Must be fully bilingual Spanish & English.  Must speak English at an intermediate level.
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or superior certification
  • Lean Manufacturing tools (SMED, VSM, TPM, 6S, JIT, etc.)
  • MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams)
  • High-Intermediate knowledge of Minitab and Statistics (Process Capability, Descriptive Statistics, Hypothesis tests, DOE, etc.)
  • Problem-solving tools (8D's, PDCA, Pareto, Ishikawa, A3, etc.)
  • Proficient in English (Written and conversational)
  • Minimum 4 years’ experience in the manufacturing industry.
  • Able to work well with subordinates, peers and superiors in all departments of the Company.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Soft skills developed.
  • Good time management and planning skills.
  • Must be willing to work Monday - Friday from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, with occasional overtime, including weekends.

  • PREFERENTIAL SKILLS

    • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification
    • Experience in injection molding processes
    • Experience in ceramic processes
    • Experience with ISO9001 or AS9100