NPI Engineering Manager

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About this role:

The NPI Engineering Manager leads the New Product Introduction engineering team responsible for bringing new and transferred products into serial production. This role owns industrialization process and product validation and launch readiness from early design input through pilot builds first-of-kind production start of production and rate ramp. The manager is accountable for delivering assigned programs on time at target cost at required quality and at committed capacity and for the readiness evidence leadership relies on to authorize production.

The role leads a team of NPI engineers project engineers and technicians and works daily with Design Engineering Program Management Manufacturing Engineering Quality Supply Chain Operations Finance and EH&S. Scope includes new production lines and line conversions tooling and equipment capital execution workstation and material-presentation design standard work and operator training and the handoff into sustaining operations. Performance is measured by launch and gate adherence first-pass yield and defects per unit at launch supplier and material readiness to clear-to-build unit cost and labor hours against plan capital spend against approved budget and line rate achieved against designed rate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads staffs and develops the NPI engineering team setting priorities workload balance decision rights and escalation triggers across concurrent programs.
• Owns manufacturing and launch readiness for assigned programs from design input through pilot first-of-kind build start of production and rate ramp.
• Represents Operations in phase-gate and design reviews presenting readiness status risk and the evidence required to authorize production.
• Owns APQP PFMEA control plan PPAP and process-validation execution and drives design-for-manufacturability input before design freeze.
• Directs industrialization of new lines and line conversions: process flow layout takt and line balance labor models tooling fixtures equipment and run-test capability.
• Plans and executes capital and tooling projects including justification specification supplier selection installation commissioning and run-off to qualified rate.
• Manages program budgets engineering resources schedules and risk-mitigation plans and escalates constraints with options and a recommendation.
• Drives material and supplier readiness with Supply Chain and Quality including BOM accuracy PPAP completion first-article approval and clear-to-build status.
• Coordinates pilot runs validation builds and production transfer with cross-functional teams closing known-not-perfect issues and build-quality findings before ramp.
• Establishes routings standard work work instructions operator training and certification requirements and ergonomic and job-hazard reviews for new processes.
• Governs engineering change during launch ensuring configuration control and disciplined implementation into production.
• Executes formal handoff to sustaining Manufacturing Engineering Quality and Operations with defined acceptance criteria and post-launch performance follow-up.
• Coaches and develops NPI engineers and technicians through skills matrices structured problem solving and succession planning.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 8 years of New Product Introduction manufacturing engineering industrialization or product-launch experience in a manufacturing environment or Masters degree and 6 years of New Product Introduction manufacturing engineering industrialization or product-launch experience in a manufacturing environment
• 3 years leading engineering teams either as direct reports or as the accountable leader of matrixed project teams.
• 5 years applying APQP PFMEA control plans PPAP and process validation on production launches.
• 3 years managing launches to defined time cost quality and capacity gates including pilot builds start of production and rate ramp.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Mechanical Industrial Manufacturing Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering.
• 3 years in HVAC refrigeration or comparable large-format discrete assembly involving sheet metal fabrication welding or brazing piping and electrical build-up.
• Experience standing up new production lines or a new site including layout takt and labor modeling equipment installation and ramp to qualified rate.
• 2 years leading NPI or industrialization across multiple sites or in a cross-border US and Mexico manufacturing network; conversational Spanish a plus.
• 3 years managing project budgets and engineering resources including capital or tooling projects of $1M or greater from business case through installation qualification and spend tracking against approved budget.
• PMP Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt combined with a recognized Lean certification.
• Working proficiency with SAP or equivalent ERP PLM such as Windchill CAD such as Creo or SolidWorks MES and project tools such as Asana Smartsheet or MS Project.
• Experience with product certification and code requirements such as UL or ETL listing ASME pressure-vessel scope and run-test or performance-validation methods.
• Demonstrated development of engineers and technicians including skills matrices certification plans and promotion of team members into expanded roles.

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $96000.00 - $192000.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include but are not limited to skills education experience and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate. The pay range will not be below the minimum wage applicable to the jurisdiction in which the applicant is to be employed.

Other Compensation

Thisposition is entitled to short-term cash incentives subject to plan requirements.

Benefits

Employees are eligible for benefits including:

• Health Care Benefits: Medical Dental Vision; Wellness incentives

• Retirement Benefits

• Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days up to 15 days; paid sick days up to 5 days; paid personal leave up to 5 days; paid holidays up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation

• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability

• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment

• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account

• Tuition Assistance

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Carrier is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. Carrier provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with section 503 of Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act.

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Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days fromJobPosting Date: 25 September 2026

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