Director of Global Npd

**Director of Global NPD & Customization**
Company: Rieke LLC
Primary Location: Avenida Juvenal Arantes, nº 2500, Galpão 19, Condo, Jundiai, Sao Paulo BRA
Employment Type: Salaried | Full-Time
Function: Research & Development
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled
**Main Duties & Responsibilities**
**Position Summary**:
The Global Customization Director is a key leadership position within TriMas Packaging. Positioned within our Dispensing global organization and working for NPD Global Team, hand-to-hand with operational and commercial teams. This leader will be responsible for the launch of customized products for our customers.
**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:
- Manage the Global Customization team in all different location around the world.
- Interact with customers and commercial team to collect all the technical information to implement the customization.
- Manage the local resource with the General Managers to deliver all tasks and information needed by the customers.
- Interact with the other 3 departments in the NPD structure (New Platform, Implementation and Metrology) to give and get information to execute the projects.
- Bring projects to market on time and on cost.
- Regularly communicate the status of all new Dispensing product launches across the business.
- For projects that are behind schedule, work with PMO’s to implement recovery plans
- Ensure practices are in place for Customized introduction to deliver flawless launches into the business.
- Coordinate the team to create Customer presentations with true to life renderings using the latest 3D CAD software.
- Manage the team to build complex CAD assemblies, run detailed simulations for Stress Analysis, Mold flow simulations for material flow, and drop test simulation.
- Support, mentor and train the local teams on the customized products with testing, calibration and measurement.
- Technical documentation for Operations that is accurate and available in advance of the launch.
- Ensure the team has effective procedures in place to own the technical aspects of new product launch, including drawings and specifications, design FMEAs.
- Ensure we have effective practices in place for supplier selection, supplier management and project management for single cavity tool builds, including: on time, on quality and on cost tooling support for procurement team during negotiations with tooling and equipment suppliers.
- Push the team to follow the FMEA process to reduce RPN risk and ensure that key characteristics critical to manufacturing are appropriately designated.
- Ensure designs improve product manufacturability.
- Participate in development of cost sheets and CapEx requests for customized products.
- When there are issues with product cost in excess of business case targets, prioritize implementation of solutions, working with the operations teams as appropriate.
- Responsible for all aspects of development, documentation, and support of the manufacturing process from conceptualization through production sustaining all activities.
**Qualifications**
**Qualifications and Skills**:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science discipline. Masters degree preferred.
- Member of professional engineering society.
- Lean or Six Sigma certification.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in design development and project management positions.
- Product/process costing.
- Work class quality systems (ISO)
- Demonstrated success with new product development and launch processes.
- Proven people management skills and ability to develop a team.
- Managing relationships and product programs with customers.
- Planning and organizational skills and ability to prioritize.
- Commercial experience with developing and implementing successful solutions for complex design and manufacturing problems.
- T Technical background in injection molding and high speed assembly preferred.
- Ability to communicate at all levels of the business.
- Ability to effectively influence and lead others to meet requirements, including on-time project completion.
- Ability to inspire confidence in customers.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines.

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