NPI Engineer
About Your New Employer:
Our client is a well-renowned aviation company based in Shannon offering excellent career and benefits to their employees.
Please note: You must have a valid visa and work permit for Ireland.
About Your New Job as an NPI Engineer:
The NPI Engineer is responsible for the development and introduction of new repairs ensuring a smooth transition from design to production. Repairs are conducted while adhering to the agreed-upon development budget. Targeting specific product cost levels and meeting scheduled introduction dates.
Responsibilities and Tasks including but are not limited to the following:
- Project Management
- Preparing Project Plans for NPI projects, including the project scope, development of budgets and schedules.
- Establishing project team / resource planning for projects.
- Monitoring the progress of projects against agreed plans and managing activities to deliver against agreed goals.
- Conducting project reviews with project team and management, ensuring all concerned are updated on progress.
- Maintaining adequate documentation of all aspects of the project.
- Conduct management review upon completion of the project to verify the success of the project against the budget, product cost & schedule and record lessons learned.
- Product Development – obtaining repair approval
- Determining the preferred technology / process equipment for the repair.
- Verifying the proposed repair will meet the target cost constraints.
- Detailing the repair steps and identifying the trials / experiments required to verify that the methods / processes meet the approval requirements
- Defining the tooling & fixture specifications / requirements and liaising with the tooling design engineer to develop cost effective solutions and provide optimum efficiency and flexibility for production.
- Conducting engineering trials & experiments necessary to verify the process.
- Preparing the Technical Plan (TP) / Repair Source Substantiation (RSS) documentation for substantiation of repairs.
- Liaising with the OEM or EASA DOA to obtain approvals in a timely manner.
- Identifying the up-front requirements of all stake holders – Production Team, Quality, EH&S, Maintenance, etc.
- Procuring new equipment required for the product introduction in accordance with company procedures.
- Ensuring necessary product information is provided in a timely manner to Commercial to support product launch.
- Conducting final project review with Operations / Quality / EH&S to close and sign the product transfer to production.
- Monitor the product cost / profitability for 1st 6 months of production to ensure target costs are achieved.
What Skills You Need:
- Degree level preferably in Materials or Mechanical Engineering.
- 3 years plus experience in an Engineering role.
- Ability to understand complex processes involving multiple disciplines.
- Strong analytical / problem solving skills.
- Confident and effective decision maker.
- Methodical and structured approach to establishing hand assessing process stability i.e. Lean / 6 Sigma.
- Excellent presentation skills and written/verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated success in solving problems within intricate environments.
- Coordinating and overseeing project activities experience is essential.
- Meticulous attention to detail and expertise in documenting processes
What's Next?
Click 'Apply Now' or for more information, please contact eward@sigmar.ie directly.
