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 ### 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 - 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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