VAPI · FULLTIME
Head NPD
Quality HR Services
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About this role
Position: Head NPD
Location: 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.
- 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
- Diploma/BE/B.Tech - Mechanical/Chemical
- NPD
- Head
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Skills
AutomationCostingIatfNPDPPAPExportAutomotiveCorrosionCompetency developmentauditsChange ManagementCost ReductionAnalyticsCustomer ComplaintsPlatingFMEAData AnalyticsIATF 16949AutomobilecomplianceCoating
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