Manager- New Product Integration, SFO

Work Mode: Onsite, Juarez, Reciente León
This is more than a job posting for Kohler Company, one of the oldest and largest privately held companies headquartered in North America. This is an invitation to collaborate and apply your craft in a creative, conscious, and characterful culture.

As a Manager, New Product Integration (NPI) you will lead a team of NPI Engineers and Technicians to engage as a core project team member to drive early manufacturing involvement and execute the manufacturing New Product Development (NPD) deliverables, while synchronizing with project NPI and plant Operations teams to ensure New Products are “Right the First Time,” achieving Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.

Responsabilities
Responsible for fulfilling all Operations Plant Level deliverables for the Kitchen and Bath Development Process, including fulfillment strategies, Plan for Every Part (PFEP), operations certification, cost reduction implementations, capacity evaluations, supply chain integrity, costing, REA initiation, and process development.




Responsible for developing and achieving scheduled launch date by use of clear project plans, risk management, and task lists with clear deadlines, including, but not limited to the following actions:

• Gain and maintain alignment from upstream and downstream support areas on dependent milestones.
• Holding teams to their expected & timely contribution to the project.
• Proactively develop contingency plans for risk management.
• Collaborate in expediting actions and adjusted resource plans to offset upstream slips in schedule.
• Maintain effective resource loading to support all active projects.
• Accurate communication of project facts to NPD, NPI and Operations Leadership.

Work with design engineering to identify, escalate and resolve manufacturing challenges by enforcing DFX principles, including, but not limited to Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Delive

📌 Manager- New Product Integration, SFO (México)
🏢 Kohler
📍 México