Senior Manager, NPI
Senior Manager, NPI
POET Technologies- Posted 21 days ago
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Job Description
Position Summary
Lead NPI and industrialization activities for photonics products from development through production ramp, working closely with R&D, engineering, contract manufacturers (CMs), and OSATs to ensure manufacturing readiness and delivery against quality, yield, cost, and schedule targets.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end NPI execution for photonics products, including design transfer, process development, qualification, pilot builds, and production ramp.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams across R&D, product engineering, manufacturing, quality, reliability, supply chain, and operations to support successful product launches.
- Work closely with CMs and OSATs across Asia to manage NPI builds, process qualification, tooling, manufacturing readiness, yield improvement, and ramp-up activities.
- Drive readiness of product, process, equipment, tooling, test, and supply chain to support transition into volume manufacturing.
- Establish and track NPI KPIs, including yield, quality, cost, cycle time, and schedule; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for manufacturing issues.
- Identify and manage technical, quality, supply, and schedule risks, ensuring qualification, reliability, audit, and production-readiness requirements are achieved.
- Mentor and develop NPI engineers and project teams, while driving improvements in product transfer, process development, manufacturing ramp, and operational efficiency.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or a related technical discipline, with knowledge of photonics, optoelectronics, semiconductors, or advanced packaging.
- 10+ years of relevant engineering, manufacturing, operations, or NPI experience, including experience leading NPI programs and production ramps.
- Strong understanding of design transfer, process development, assembly, packaging, testing, qualification, yield improvement, and volume manufacturing.
- Experience working with CMs and OSATs, preferably in Asia-based manufacturing environments, including NPI builds, qualification, performance management, and production ramp-up.
- Strong cross-functional leadership, project management, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive NPI programs against quality, cost, yield, and schedule objective.
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Key Skills
pilot builds
manufacturing readiness
root-cause analysis
NPI execution
production ramp
design transfer
yield improvement
About Company
Skills:
Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Iso 13485, Industry 4.0 Technologies, Process Validation, digital manufacturing, GMP Requirements, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, IQ OQ PQ Process Validation, Robotics, Equipment Development, Machine Vision, Automation Engineering
Skills:
automation, equipment reliability engineering, equipment qualification, capital project execution, maintenance strategy, Financial Acumen, project management, Predictive Maintenance, 8D, problem-solving methodologies, Capa, Rca, capital budgets, 5-Why, Tpm, factory performance management, new equipment introduction, Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing
Skills:
project management, Negotiating, procurement processes, Problem Solving, Communication Skills, Sourcing, Lean Six Sigma
Skills:
Change Management, Agile, Tableau, Oracle, ChatGPT, Lean, Project Management, Google Suites, Ai, Gemini, Six Sigma
Skills:
Employee Relations, project management, process improvement, policy interpretation, Influence, Conflict Resolution, Compliance, employment laws and regulations, workplace investigations, Collaboration, performance management, Communication Skills