- Lead Recent Product Development (NPD) activities for fasteners from RFQ to production handover.
- Review customer requirements, drawings and specifications and conduct technical feasibility.
- Prepare product costing, process costing and commercial feasibility for new projects.
- Lead product design, process development, tooling and prototype development.
- Coordinate Tool Development/Tooling activities for dies, fixtures, gauges and related tools.
- Manage prototype trials, testing, validation and performance evaluation.
- Drive APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plan, MSA and related NPD documentation.
- Coordinate with customers/OEMs for technical discussions, drawings, specifications and approvals.
- Lead cross-functional teams across Design, Tool Room, Production, Quality and Purchase.
- Ensure successful industrialisation and smooth new product transfer to production.
- Identify opportunities for cost reduction, process improvement and product optimisation.
- Monitor NPD timelines, project milestones,
trials and customer approval status.
- Resolve technical issues during development, prototype and pre-production stages.
- Ensure new products meet quality, cost, delivery and customer requirements.
- Mentor and guide the NPD/Development team and drive project ownership
Required Skills
- Fastener New Product Development (NPD)
- RFQ Technical Feasibility
- Product Process Development
- Costing Cost Reduction
- Tool Development / Tooling
- Prototype Development Validation
- APQP PPAP
- PFMEA Control Plan
- Customer / OEM Technical Interaction
- Engineering Drawing Specification Review
- Process Planning Industrialisation
- Production Trial Process Approval
- Cross-Functional Team Management
- Root Cause Analysis Problem Solving
- Project Planning Execution
- Supplier Tool Vendor Coordination
- NPD Documentation Reporting
- Continuous Improvement / Kaizen
- Team Leadership Development