Staff NPI Engineer

ZT Systems•Secaucus, NJ

1d•$93,000 - $136,400

About The Position

The Staff New Products Introduction (NPI) Engineer leads manufacturing readiness for product launches, covering the end-to-end production process from material preparation and assembly through shipment preparation. The role coordinates readiness across products, platforms, customers, buildings, and global factories, balancing factory capabilities with customer requirements. This position drives risk analysis, launch planning, process development, and issue resolution in collaboration with manufacturing, operations, engineering, and design teams. It also analyzes manufacturing KPIs and historical launch data to improve product design, assembly, testing, and time to market. The engineer represents manufacturing in business and technical updates and leads continuous improvement efforts across products, platforms, and customers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline; mechanical, electrical, or industrial engineering is preferred.
At least 6 years of relevant experience in an engineering role.
Fluency with manufacturing systems and process design concepts.
Ability to learn continuously through dedication of time, effort, and energy.
Ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads and deadlines.
Experience in manufacturing environments.
Experience with continuous improvement or lean programs.
Experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Excel, and Word.

Responsibilities

Review NUDD analysis across products, platforms, and customers to determine manufacturing readiness requirements for NPI launch sites and global factories.
Identify disruptor products and work with manufacturing engineering and operations management to develop processes and procedures that support rapid launches across multiple sites.
Interpret engineering specifications and translate product topographies into manufacturing work instructions.
Lead action plans between manufacturing and design teams to resolve conflicts between product requirements and factory capabilities.
Drive global manufacturing readiness reviews as NPI programs transfer to production sites; serve as a subject matter expert and contribute to selecting products for global transfer.
Use NUDD, PFMEA, and DFM risk analysis to develop iterative process readiness plans that improve manufacturing capability, repeatability, and efficiency.
Lead lab efforts to identify, triage, and resolve launch issues and strengthen new products and processes.
Set manufacturing readiness direction and plans across products, platforms, customers, buildings, and global sites, balancing factory capabilities with customer requirements.
Provide technical support to manufacturing engineering and training teams during SOP development, and drive assembly-process optimization and improvements to management systems between manufacturing and NPI.
Analyze manufacturing KPIs for new products and lead cross-functional improvements to design, assembly, and test processes; identify and analyze new KPIs as business priorities change.
Review lessons learned from product and platform launches, derive optimization efforts, and create risk mitigation plans for future launches.
Facilitate collaboration between manufacturing and design teams to improve product health using historical data and prescriptive plans that accelerate time to market.
Represent manufacturing in business and technical report-outs and determine communication pathways and metrics for new products, platforms, and customers.
Lead design analysis with NPI and manufacturing engineers, review historical DFM and PFMEA scores, set acceptability thresholds for new components, and collaborate to optimize product design and assembly processes.
Evaluate product performance issues and coordinate technical and operational resources to develop and execute solutions across sites.
Use lessons learned to drive preventive actions and continuous improvement projects across products, platforms, and customers.