Job Description

Experience: 5–8 Years

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Industry: Rubber / Elastomers / Rubber Products

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Department: Recent Product Development

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Position: Senior Engineer – NPD

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Location: Kuruli

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Reporting To: Factory Manager

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Job Purpose

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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.

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Key Responsibilities

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- Handle end-to-end New Product Development (NPD) activities from customer requirement/technical specifications through trials, validation, and commercialization.
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- Study customer drawings, specifications, standards, and application requirements and convert them into product and process requirements.
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- Develop and optimize rubber compounds, including selection of polymers, fillers, plasticizers, curing systems, and additives as applicable.
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- Coordinate with R&D;, Quality, Production, Tool Room, Purchase, and Sales/Customer teams for successful product development.
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- Prepare and review BOM, process specifications, technical documents, trial reports, and development records.
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- Plan and conduct laboratory, moulding, extrusion, mixing, and production trials as applicable to the product.
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- Analyze trial results and identify opportunities for improvement in compound formulation, process parameters, dimensional accuracy, and product performance.
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- Conduct root-cause analysis for development and trial failures using tools such as 5 Why, Fishbone, DOE, and other problem-solving techniques.
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- Support development of prototypes, samples, and pre-production batches within agreed timelines.
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- Validate products through appropriate physical, chemical, mechanical, aging, and application-specific testing.
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- Ensure products comply with applicable customer specifications, ASTM/ISO/DIN or other relevant standards.
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- Work on cost reduction, material optimization, alterna

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