Experience: 5–8 Years
Industry: Rubber / Elastomers / Rubber Products
Department: Current Product Development
Position: Senior Engineer – NPD
Location: Kuruli
Reporting To: Factory Manager
Job Purpose
To lead and execute new product development activities for rubber products from concept to successful production, ensuring the products meet customer requirements, quality standards, cost targets, and timelines.
Key Responsibilities
Handle end-to-end New Product Development (NPD) activities from customer requirement/technical specifications through trials, validation, and commercialization.
Study customer drawings, specifications, standards, and application requirements and convert them into product and process requirements.
Develop and optimize rubber compounds, including selection of polymers, fillers, plasticizers, curing systems, and additives as applicable.
Coordinate with R&D;, Quality, Production, Tool Room, Purchase, and Sales/Customer teams for successful product development.
Prepare and review BOM, process specifications, technical documents, trial reports,



and development records.
Plan and conduct laboratory, moulding, extrusion, mixing, and production trials as applicable to the product.
Analyze trial results and identify opportunities for improvement in compound formulation, process parameters, dimensional accuracy, and product performance.
Conduct root-cause analysis for development and trial failures using tools such as 5 Why, Fishbone, DOE, and other problem-solving techniques.
Support development of prototypes, samples, and pre-production batches within agreed timelines.
Validate products through appropriate physical, chemical, mechanical, aging, and application-specific testing.
Ensure products comply with applicable customer specifications, ASTM/ISO/DIN or other relevant standards.
Work on cost reduction, material optimization, alternate raw-material development, and process improvement.
Support successful transfer of new products from development to regu

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