Product NPI Engineer

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Overview

Your Job

As an Product NPI Engineer, you will serve as the essential link between our manufacturing site and multiple design centers to facilitate the seamless introduction of new products. Your role encompasses analyzing, designing, costing, and evaluating the necessary tooling, machinery, and processes from prototype stages through to mass production release. You will collaborate cross-functionally with quality, design, maintenance, testing, manufacturing, and planning teams to ensure new product launches meet schedule and quality standards, while maintaining adherence to the organization's quality management system.

Our Team

You will be part of the NPI team within the DSS division, a dynamic group responsible for driving innovation and operational excellence in new product introductions. This team manages critical processes such as pre-production planning, project execution, quality assurance, and risk management to support business growth and customer satisfaction.

What You Will Do

• Act as the primary point of contact between manufacturing and design centers to gather and follow up on new product information.
• Lead the analysis, design, costing, and evaluation of tools, machinery, and processes necessary for prototype and mass production readiness.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (quality, design, maintenance, testing, manufacturing, and planning) to meet stringent product launch timelines.
• Prepare and interpret Bills of Materials (BOMs), technical plans, specifications, and electronic diagrams to support manufacturing processes.
• Oversee pilot runs and validate tooling and equipment, ensuring compliance with good manufacturing practices.
• Manage tooling design and layout programs, including design qualification and supplier development.
• Support production lines during new product launches and transitions.
• Apply Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Core Tools to enhance product and process quality.
• Develop and release internal control documents including Visual Aids, Control Plans, and FMEAs.
• Utilize Lean Manufacturing techniques, Kaizen, 5S, and Poka-Yoke systems to drive continuous improvement.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions (RAC, RDP, 8D).

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

What Will Put You Ahead

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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