Experience:
5–8 Years

Industry:
Rubber / Elastomers / Rubber Products

Department:
New 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
Recent 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

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