Position: AGM - NPD

Location: Zaroli Nearby Bhilad

Experience: 15 - 20 Years

Industries: Automobile

Responsibilities:

Centralized NPD Governance * Act as single point of ownership for NPD across all plants.

- Define and deploy standard NPD processes, APQP framework, and documentation common to all locations.
- Approve and monitor NPD timelines, milestones, and launch readiness at each plant.
- Ensure process discipline and consistency across plants.
- Multi-Plant Project Management
- Allocate NPD projects to plants based on capacity, capability, technology, and customer requirement.
- Track progress of all projects through centralized review meetings and dashboards.
- Resolve inter-plant bottlenecks and resource conflicts.
- Ensure SOP readiness simultaneously across concerned plants.
- Technical Standardization & Best Practices
- Establish common plating and painting process standards, specifications, and control plans for all plants.
- Drive technology transfer and replication of proven processes between plants.
- Approve process changes, new chemistries, and current coating technologies before plant implementation.
- Ensure uniform corrosion resistance, durability, appearance, and quality standards.
- Centralized Costing & Feasibility Control
- Own central feasibility approval for all RFQs (Export & Domestic).
- Standardize costing methodology, cycle time calculation, tooling norms, and scrap assumptions.
- Validate plant-wise cost competitiveness and recommend right-plant sourcing.
- Drive group-level cost reduction and VA/VE initiatives.
- Customer & Export Coordination (Central)
- Act as central technical interface for key OEMs, Tier-1 and export customers.
- Support customer technical reviews, audits, trials,



and approvals across plants.
- Align customer requirements uniformly and avoid deviation between locations.
- Ensure compliance with export regulations, customer-specific standards, REACH / ROHS.
- Quality & Compliance Oversight
- Ensure all NPD activities comply with IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, MSA, SPC, FMEA.
- Approve PPAP submissions and deviation requests for all plants.
- Lead root cause analysis for NPD-related customer complaints.
- Support internal, customer, and certification audits from a central standpoint.
- People & Capability Development
- Build and lead a central NPD / Process Engineering team.
- Define skill matrix, training plans, and competency development for plant NPD teams.
- Mentor plant NPD leads and review performance.
- Ensure knowledge retention and succession planning.
- Innovation & Future Readiness
- Evaluate and introduce new coating technologies, automation, and sustainability initiatives at group level.
- Benchmark global automotive plating & painting practices.
- Drive digitalization of NPD tracking, documentation, and data analytics.
- Lead long-term technology roadmap for plating and painting.

Required Skills

- Multi-plant NPD leadership
- Automotive plating & painting process expertise
- Strong APQP / PPAP governance
- Strategic costing & technical decision-making
- Customer-facing leadership (Export & Domestic)
- Change management & cross-plant coordination

Required Qualification: Diploma/ B.E/B.Tech - Mechanical/Chemical

Salary :- Upto 18.00 LPA

If you are interested for this opening please send updated resume on same mail with following details.

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