Manufacturing / NPI Engineer
Own NPI engineering: DFM reviews, FAI/qualification protocols, configuration control, supplier audits.
Worth knowing
Why it is interesting. Broad process exposure across CNC, sheet metal, injection molding, castings and additive, with supplier-facing ownership.
Might not be for you. Process/quality and project-management heavy, not materials R&D; requires 6+ years and supplier travel.
The materials angleexposure to multiple manufacturing processes - CNC machining, sheet metal, injection molding, castings, additive
- Seniority
- Senior
- Work
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 6+ yrs
- Industry
- General manufacturing
- Role
- Process Engineering
Role details
Jiga is on a mission to help engineers build physical products faster. Our customers are increasingly bringing us production work - not just one-off prototypes. They want us to take a part from first article through low-volume to mass production without losing geometry, blowing tolerances, or surprising them on price.
We're hiring a Manufacturing / NPI Engineer to be the technical and process spine that makes production-class work repeatable. You'll own the engineering side of new-program introduction: design-for-manufacture review, first-article inspection planning, configuration and revision control, qualification protocols, and the technical project management that gets a customer from 'prototype that worked' to 'production run we trust.'
What you'll do
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Own the NPI funnel from RFQ to production
- Be the technical owner on every program that has a path to production
- Run structured DFM reviews on incoming production candidates
- Define the process to move a part from prototype tooling to production tooling
- Partner with the customer's engineering team on design questions, alternative materials, and process trade-offs
Own FAI, qualification, and quality protocols
- Build and own Jiga's First Article Inspection process
- Define qualification protocols for parts moving from prototype to production
- Author control plans and inspection plans
- Own the engineering side of customer-driven supplier audits
Enforce configuration and revision control
- Apply rigorous configuration control: which revision of which drawing is in production, who approved it, what changed
- Enforce the ECN / ECO flow with both customers and suppliers
- Verify that what the customer drew, what the supplier received, and what the supplier shipped are all the same part
Be the engineering link to our suppliers
- Build deep, peer-level engineering relationships with our manufacturing partners
- Drive alignment up-front on every production program
- Be on the ground when it matters: supplier qualification visits, audits, root-cause investigations
You're a fit if you
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- Have 6+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering, NPI, or production engineering experience
- Have run a real NPI program from DFM through PPAP / FAI / qualification through ramp to volume
- Have hands-on experience with configuration control and revision management
- Are deeply fluent in FAI, control plans, inspection plans, and quality protocols (AS9102 / PPAP / ISIR)
- Have meaningful exposure to multiple manufacturing processes - CNC machining, sheet metal, injection molding, castings, additive
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