What are the responsibilities and job description for the New Product Introduction Engineer position at Deringer-Ney Inc.?
Title : New Product Introduction Engineer
Job Summary:
The incumbent will be responsible for project management from development through production launch for new products.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Duties/Responsibilities:
Bachelor of Science in Engineering or ten years of experience in manufacturing and program management.
Physical Requirements:
Job Summary:
The incumbent will be responsible for project management from development through production launch for new products.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with customers, marketing, sales, manufacturing, engineering, and quality engineering to shepherd new programs from concept development to commercial launch.
- Position serves in a results-driven environment and requires a team-oriented individual.
- Develop project and manufacturing costs to support sales and marketing in business case development and program justification.
- Ability to understand customer requirements and translate those requirements into a manufacturable product design.
- Establish engineering / scientific objectives for projects.
- Coordinate tooling design, fabrication, start-up, and production ramp-up then turn over to manufacturing for new programs.
- Finalize specifications, designs, and contract reviews for specific market responsibilities.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to agreed timelines and budgets.
- Independently plan and execute projects – i.e. program management
- Evaluated based on execution to the project timeline
- Evaluated based on customer satisfaction
- Evaluated on the successful launch of products to production
- The expectations for managing the programs are:
- Manage the phase gate process from purchase order receipt, through development and production release.
- Assemble a multi-disciplinary team (assigned by department managers) to execute project activities.
- Hold a kick-off meeting to launch the project.
- Create and maintain a project Gantt chart for schedule and critical deliverables.
- Hold review meetings as programs progress towards production.
- Participate in technical meetings
- Manage customer meetings
- Manage suppliers in the development phase
- Generate presentations on project status
- Mange the hand off of a project to production and the production sign-off of a project
- Participate with the team in a “hands on” manner: assist in writing / review of documents, assist with taking product samples, machine operation, manufacturing process review, and physical review of product quality.
- 3 years of experience in manufacturing, product realization, or an applied industrial environment.
- Experience with automotive, aerospace, or medical manufacturing and quality systems desired. Proficiency in reading engineering prints along with an understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
- Skilled in utilizing spreadsheets for calculations, task management, and documentation.
- Manage team priorities and open tasks.
- Able to lead team meetings.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering or ten years of experience in manufacturing and program management.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
- Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.