Manager – New Product Development (NPD)

Job ID: PHIR/2026-27/11

Key Performance Area:

• Own and govern the NPD roadmap for rubber, thermoformed plastic components, and metal tubing, where applicable, aligned with Polyhose business priorities and customer programs.
• Review and approve NPD project plans, timelines, resource allocation, and budgets across multiple projects.
• Track portfolio-level plan vs. actual performance, identify systemic risks, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for customers on NPD programs related to hose assemblies, thermoformed tube components, and metal tubing, where applicable.
• Lead high-level feasibility reviews covering material strategy, tooling concepts, cycle time, yield, and cost viability.
• Approve technical concepts, design approaches, and validation strategies for customer applications.
• Review and approve critical design deliverables, including 2D drawings, 3D models, and BOM structures.
• Provide strategic direction to internal tool rooms and external tooling vendors for tool and fixture design, trials, and modifications.
• Ensure tooling readiness, capacity planning, and successful trials to support production ramp-up.
• Oversee pilot production, industrial trials, and handover from NPD to serial production.
• Review and approve PFMEA, Control Plans, Process Flow Diagrams, and capability studies in coordination with Quality and Production teams.
• Own cost targets for new formed tubes, metal tubes, tooling, and fixture investments.
• Drive VA/VE initiatives focused on material optimization, cycle-time reduction, yield improvement, and cost competitiveness.
• Promote standardization and reuse of proven designs, tooling concepts, and process best practices across Polyhose plants.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the NPD team across multiple levels.
• Define skill requirements, support succession planning, and build technical depth in part design, tooling, fixture concepts, and problem-solving.