New Product Introduction Engineer

Job Summary:
Precision Impacts is a leader in high-volume manufacturing of impact extrusions and value-added metal products for over 70 years. The company’s commitment to precision, quality, and innovation makes them a trusted partner across a range of industries, delivering products that meet the absolute highest standards. With a team of over 80 employees, the company has a combined 250+ years of direct technical experience in the fabrication and finishing of precision aluminum products. It has a close working relationship and onsite representatives from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Defense. Operating from three state-of-the-art facilities spanning 11 acres and over 120,000 square feet of manufacturing space in Miamisburg, Ohio, Precision Impacts supports global distribution and delivers unmatched reliability and precision.

New Product Introduction Engineer:
We are seeking an experienced NPI Engineer to own the industrialization of new products from design release through production launch. This role is the critical bridge between Product Engineering and Manufacturing — driving Process Design & Development and Product & Process Validation for new and transferred programs. You will author PFMEAs, develop Control Plans, specify tooling and fixtures, lead capability studies, and own PPAP submission for every program you touch. Beyond the documentation, you will shape manufacturability early by partnering with Product Engineering during design, and you will hand clean, capable processes to Manufacturing Engineering at launch. If you enjoy owning programs end-to-end in a high-volume environment where details and follow-through determine whether a launch is a success, we want to talk.

Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or related field)
4–7 years of hands-on process development or manufacturing engineering experience in a discrete, high-volume manufacturing environment
Demonstrated ownership of at least one full APQP cycle from Process Design through PPAP approval — able to walk through specific examples in interview
Working proficiency with the core APQP toolkit: Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA / Gage R&R, SPC, Cp/Cpk studies, PPAP elements, and Run-at-Rate execution
Fluent in reading GD&T and interpreting engineering drawings; comfortable holding your own in DFM/DFA reviews with Product Engineering
Experience authoring CapEx justifications and managing capital equipment installation from specification through OQ
Proficiency with standard measuring equipment (calipers, micrometers, CMM basics)
Strong written communication — you will be the author of record for PFMEAs, Control Plans, and validation reports

Preferred Skills
Impact / cold extrusion tooling and die design experience or similar
Secondary machining process development (CNC lathe, mill)
High-volume discrete manufacturing environment experience
Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt; Lean Manufacturing certification
SolidWorks or equivalent 3D CAD
Tooling design and fixture development

Responsibilities:
The NPI Engineer is accountable for translating released product designs into robust, capable, repeatable manufacturing processes for impact extrusion and downstream operations. This includes authoring Process Flow Diagrams, Process FMEAs, and Control Plans; specifying and validating tooling, fixtures, gauges, and workstation layouts; and defining process parameters, standard work, and in-process inspection methods. The NPI Engineer partners with Quality to plan and execute Measurement System Analysis (Gage R&R, bias, linearity) ahead of validation, and coordinates with supply chain on long-lead tooling, perishable tooling consumption rates, and outside processing.
The NPI Engineer owns Product & Process Validation — planning and executing process capability studies (Cp/Cpk), leading Run-at-Rate and Production Trial Runs and driving closure of identified process risks before production release. The role owns the complete PPAP submission package for new and transferred programs, including internal approvals and customer submissions where required. Post-PPAP, the NPI Engineer, supports early production through a structured handoff to Manufacturing Engineering and remains an active technical resource during the first 90 days of production.
Additional responsibilities include providing Design-for-Manufacturing and Design-for-Assembly feedback to Product Engineering before drawings are released, scoping and justifying capital equipment purchases (CARs) for new programs and process improvements, managing capital projects through installation and OQ, and contributing to continuous improvement efforts using standard quality tools including SPC, First Pass Yield analysis, and corrective action. The NPI Engineer also maintains all APQP documentation required for Quality Management System compliance.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Experience in the following areas is recommended for this position:
4–7 years of process development or manufacturing engineering experience
Documented APQP Phase 3 and 4 ownership with at least one completed PPAP submission
4-year engineering degree preferred


PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stand, sit, use hands, lift moderately heavy items (up to 60lb’s), climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk and hear

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Factory and office
Increased noise levels in factory
Ambient temperature between 40◦F and 100◦

What You’ll Bring:
You are relentlessly committed to closure. When a supplier misses a tooling delivery, when a Cpk study fails, when a design change lands mid-Phase 4 — you drive the problem to completion, not to the next meeting. You understand that a PPAP package with an open risk is not a PPAP package, and you grind through the unglamorous work to get there.
Details matter to you because you know where they end up if they don’t — in warranty claims, in customer escapes, in corrective action reports. You sweat the severity/occurrence/detection ratings on a PFMEA because you have seen what happens when someone else didn’t. You author Control Plans someone else can execute.
You are action-oriented and entrepreneurial. You do not wait for the perfect data to run the trial, and you do not wait for someone to hand you the problem. You see gaps, you close them, and you bring ideas to the table about how to do it better next time. You treat the business like your own.
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