New Product Introduction

7 months ago


Rochester, United Kingdom BAE Systems Full time

**Job title**:New Product Introduction (NPI) Lead

**Location**:Rochester

**Salary**: Up to 50k dependant on skills and experience

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Develop the manufacturing strategy of the product and capture within the manufacturing plan. Maintain this plan as the product maturity develops through Bid, Development, Qualification, and Initial Production
- Work collaboratively with the Engineering functions to review and influence designs to ensure they are suitable to meet Design to Unit Production Cost (DTUPC) targets, by the implementation of high yield, efficient manufacturing processes
- Creation of build schedules, drive materials and resource using MRP and manage the manufacture of prototype assets upon the shopfloor
- Authoring build documentation to instruct build technicians. Capture lessons learned from prototype/initial build and incorporate in the build process/design
- Present weekly project status to the operations management team, and monthly to the project team during Project Performance Review (PPR).
- Manage NPI related: labour expenditure, DTUPC and project schedule

***

**Your skills and experiences**:
**Essential**
- Degree or equivalent in an engineering discipline
- Experience of working within a Manufacturing or Engineering environment
- Leading Teams
- Application of DFM methodologies during product development

**Desirable**
- Creation and delivery of manufacturing instructions to build technicians
- Working within a EN9100 compliant environment

**Benefits**:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual leave incentive.

**The Product Development team**:
The Lead NPI Engineer is part of a cross-functional development team, responsible for the execution of development programmes that take our world class technologies and ensure they are packaged into a product that meets the required quality standards, delivered on time and to cost. They are the Operations interface to the project and expected to assess and influence Engineering’s designs using Design for Manufacture (DFM) principles to ensure that manufacturability is kept at the heart of the design.

**Why BAE Systems?**

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

**Closing Date**:5th of February

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