NPD Industrial Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a NPD (New Product Development) Industrialization Engineer responsible for industrialization, manufacturing readiness, and controlled implementation of new products and engineering changes. The role serves as the primary bridge between Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Sourcing, and Operations, translating released designs into safe, stable, scalable, and cost-effective manufacturing processes. The backbone behind our collection of outstanding businesses is a team of dedicated employees who protect and enhance our valued reputation for quality and delivering what we promise. It’s our values that define Dover to all of our key audiences: our shareholders, customers, prospective employees and especially to ourselves. These values must be expressed in our work and embody our actions, as they form the basis by which we do our jobs, make decisions and measure our performance. It’s our unwavering commitment to maintaining our values that defines who we are as a Company. Collaborative Entrepreneurial Spirit Winning Through Customers Respects and Values People Expectations for Results High Ethical Standards, Openness, and Trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead industrialization activities for New Product Development, Design to Value, customer-requested changes, and product improvement initiatives from design development through production launch and stabilization.
• Own ECP (Engineering Change Plan) development and execution, including implementation sequence, timing, effective dates or serial breaks, inventory disposition, documentation updates, training, validation, supplier coordination, and manufacturing readiness.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Product Engineering and Operations to ensure designs are successfully translated into capable, repeatable, and scalable manufacturing processes.
• Lead manufacturing feasibility, DFM/DFA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly), process risk, capacity, tooling, material-flow, labor, quality-control, and cost reviews throughout the Stage-Gate process.
• Develop industrialization and launch plans covering process flow, workstations, equipment, tooling, fixtures, routings, work instructions,