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Job Summary

Job Description

New Product Launch Industrial Engineer Job Description

Objective

• This position acts as the lead engineer and project manager for the manufacturing process design of new product launches. This role utilizes the tools of industrial engineering to design and implement efficient and cost-effective manufacturing production lines. This position is responsible for managing the project, from initial business award to successful production implementation, while strictly adhering to budget and timeline constraints. 

Essential Responsibilities

• Process Design: Design and develop manufacturing production lines for new products, ensuring equipment requirements are fully aligned with product specifications and capacity requirements.

• Project Management: Manage the entire project lifecycle, including organizing and leading cross-functional meetings, facilitating technical design reviews, and driving accountability across stakeholders. Ensure all milestones are met, delivering the project on time and within the allocated budget.
• Capacity Planning: Analyze and determine capacity requirements, ensuring alignment with production volume forecasts and efficiency targets.

• New Business quotation - Understand costs associated with manufacturing equipment and labor needed to quote new business opportunities

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Project Management: Proven ability to lead complex projects, manage multidisciplinary teams, and conduct formal design reviews.
• Technical Proficiency: Working knowledge of process flow charts, PFMEA and their relationship to DFMEA. Knowledge of machine specification development,
• Financial Acumen: Experience in budget management and cost tracking for capital equipment and process implementation.
• Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical requirements clearly to diverse teams.
• Industry Experience: Experience in a highly automated manufacturing environment, specifically within automotive electronics (Tier 1 or OEM level) is strongly preferred.

Education & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, process engineering, or related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in industrial engineering or process engineering, with a focus on new product launch (NPL).
  
  NOTE: This position Is Not open to external sourcing (Recruiting agencies)
  
  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Additional Job Details

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

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No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.