Head – NPD

Job Description:

 Position:      Head – NPD

Location:      Zaroli - vapi

Experience:   20 - 22 Years

Industries:    Automobile

Responsibilities:

• Centralized NPD Governance
• Act as single point of ownership for NPD across all plants.
• Define and deploy standard NPD processes, APQP framework, and documentation
• common to all locations.
• Approve and monitor NPD timelines, milestones, and launch readiness at each plant.
• Ensure process discipline and consistency across plants.
• Multi-Plant Project Management
• Allocate NPD projects to plants based on capacity, capability, technology, and customer requirement.
• Track progress of all projects through centralized review meetings and dashboards.
• Resolve inter-plant bottlenecks and resource conflicts.
• Ensure SOP readiness simultaneously across concerned plants.
• Technical Standardization & Best Practices
• Establish common plating and painting process standards, specifications, and control plans for all plants.
• Drive technology transfer and replication of proven processes between plants.
• pprove process changes, new chemistries, and new coating technologies before plant implementation.
• Ensure uniform corrosion resistance, durability, appearance, and quality standards.
• Centralized Costing & Feasibility Control
• wn central feasibility approval for all RFQs (Export & Domestic).
• Standardize costing methodology, cycle time calculation, tooling norms, and scrap assumptions
• Validate plant-wise cost competitiveness and recommend right-plant sourcing.
• Drive group-level cost reduction and VA/VE initiatives.
• Customer & Export Coordination (Central)
• Act as central technical interface for key OEMs, Tier-1 and export customers.
• Support customer technical reviews, audits, trials, and approvals across plants.
• Align customer requirements uniformly and avoid deviation between locations.
• Ensure compliance with export regulations, customer-specific standards, REACH /ROHS.
• Quality & Compliance Oversight
• Ensure all NPD activities comply with IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, MSA, SPC, FMEA.
• Approve PPAP submissions and deviation requests for all plants.
• Lead root cause analysis for NPD-related customer complaints.
• Support internal, customer, and certification audits from a central standpoint.
• People & Capability Development
• Build and lead a central NPD / Process Engineering team.
• Define skill matrix, training plans, and competency development for plant NPD teams.
• Mentor plant NPD leads and review performance.
• Ensure knowledge retention and succession planning.
•  Innovation & Future Readiness
• Evaluate and introduce new coating technologies, automation, and sustainability initiatives at group level.
• Benchmark global automotive plating & painting practices.
• Drive digitalization of NPD tracking, documentation, and data analytics.
• Lead long-term technology roadmap for plating and painting.

Required Skills

• Multi-plant NPD leadership
• Automotive plating & painting process expertise
• Strong APQP / PPAP governance
• Strategic costing & technical decision-making
• Customer-facing leadership (Export  Domestic)
• Change management & cross-plant coordination

Required Qualification:- Diploma/BE/B.Tech – Mechanical/Chemical 

Salary :- Upto 22.00 LPA

If you are interested for this opening please send updated resume on cv@qualityhr.co.in or revert on same mail with following details.

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