Senior NPI Engineer (Switchboard)

About the role

ABB is hiring a Senior NPI Engineer for its Electrification Business in Juarez, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The role reports to the Product Engineering Manager and focuses on optimizing the production organization's assembly methods, processes and equipment to reduce labour hours while meeting quality, efficiency, cost and safety goals. It is an on-site position.

Key responsibilities

• Identify and recommend improvement opportunities, implement improvement projects and ensure they meet timeframe, quality and cost requirements.
• Approve designs for internally or externally developed processes and perform final tests.
• Support production during internal and external process and equipment start-ups, define action plans and train maintenance and production staff.
• Evaluate new process technologies to improve productivity, quality and cost, and lead testing activities, approval criteria and external provider selection.
• Define the working phase sequence of a new production process to meet target product cost and equipment investment budget.
• Ensure appropriate production methods, cycle time, equipment performance and materials/components support production targets.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, mechatronic, industrial or similar engineering.
• 4+ years of experience as an NPI Engineer, Product Engineer or Manufacturing Engineer working on switchboards.
• Ability to travel as required, valid passport and eligibility to work in Mexico; a valid U.S. visa is preferred.
• Advanced English level.

Required skills

• New Product Introduction (NPI), Project Management, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), APQP and Change Management.
• Enhanced knowledge of Windchill PLM, SAP, AutoCAD, Creo, Microsoft Project and engineering change management systems.