NPI Engineer in Ashford

G&H is a world leader in optical designing, testing and manufacturing. As experts in the technology of light, G&H works with customers to provide optical systems, assemblies, and components for demanding applications. Headquartered in Ilminster, Somerset, UK with primary operations in the USA and Europe, G&H is recognised for the breadth of their acousto-optic, electro-optic, crystal-optic, fibre optic, and precision optic products. G&H is recognised as the preferred source for OEMs in the life sciences, industrial, and aerospace and defence industries, with a history of quality and excellence that dates back over seventy-five years.

The New Product Introduction Engineer will work primarily within the NPI Team but will have key working relationships with the New Business, Production Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, QA/RA and R&D departments. This role requires a driven and flexible individual that can multitask, plan, schedule, manage time effectively and coordinate various tasks to tight time scales. You will need to be a verbally confident candidate capable of driving internal and external presentations using PowerPoint.

You will work closely with the New Business and Supply Chain teams to ensure the timely generation of quotations for potential new business, and work closely with the production engineering and production teams for introduction of new products when new business has been won. This shall include generation and maintenance of project plans, coordinating internal resource and problem solving effectively where required through to a state of business as usual within manufacturing. You will work closely with the QA team to generate Process Validation documentation as per the project plan requirements, these documents shall be to a satisfactory standard to pass ISO13485, FDA, MDR audits.

• Adherence to all Company policies, management systems and standard operational procedures, including legal responsibilities in relation to Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality.
• Provide Environmental commitment for site in order to maintain sustainability and progression to net zero.
• Working positively to develop and foster good working relationships with colleagues and contracted personnel in order to maintain a culture of mutual respect and dignity.
• Promote and display the G&H values: Customer focus, Integrity, Action, Unity, Precision.

• Inspection and test of Products.
• Review Technical Packages provided by potential new customers.
• Carry out a Gap analysis on technical packages, providing written observations to the customer and New Business.
• Preparation of procurement package for quotation purposes.
• Supplier communication to gather raw material costs for quotation purposes.
• Providing labour estimates based on the package provided.
• Reverse engineer demo units provided for labour quotation purposes.
• Reverse engineer demo units to provide process improvement reports.
• Generate and maintain project plans using Microsoft Project.
• Use a 5-phase approach to manage a project from start to finish.
• Gate review at specified times throughout the 5-phase approach.
• Lead customer communications meetings and generate minutes.
• Process Validation and execution assistance.
• Willingness to travel to customer/supplier sites within the UK and internationally.

• Completion of output against target.
• Appraisals.
• Regular 1-1 meetings.

• Degree level in either mechanical or electronics engineering.

• Positive attitude to continuous improvement with proven experience.
• Flexible approach.
• Safety, quality and compliance competent.
• Accountable and responsible.

• Ability to client face with excellent communication skills.
• Good organisation skills.
• Diligent with an eye for detail.
• Excellent time management skills to effectively handle conflicting priorities and ensure tight deadlines are met.
• Experience of ERP system.
• Competency with Microsoft Office products, particularly desirable in Microsoft Project and PowerPoint.
• Process validation experience.
• 13485/MDR trained an advantage.

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive in every respect, but rather to clearly define the fundamental purpose, responsibilities and dimensions for the role. Therefore, this job description does not describe any individual role holder. In addition to the contents of this job description, employees are expected to undertake all other reasonable and related tasks allocated by their line manager.

The Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunity or practices on the grounds of gender, race, religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national laws under which the Company operates.

Potential candidates should be aware that many of the employment roles at G&H are subject to government security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities that you may have previously held and your place of birth, could restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All UK applicants must, as a minimum, be able to successfully complete security vetting to the UK government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard, which includes a criminal record check being performed. Many roles may also require higher levels of security vetting to be completed, where applicants must typically have been continuously resident within the UK for the past five to ten years.