Position: Head NPD

Location: Vapi

Experience: 20 - 22 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.

- pprove process changes, new chemistries, and new coating technologies before plant implementation.

- Ensure uniform corrosion resistance, durability, appearance, and quality standards.

- Centralized Costing Feasibility Control
- wn 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

- Solid APQP / PPAP governance

- Strategic costing technical decision-making

- Customer-facing leadership (Export; Domestic)

- Change management cross-plant coordination

Required Qualification

- Diploma/BE/B.Tech - Mechanical/Chemical

Key Skills

- NPD

- Head

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