Manufacturing / NPI Engineer

About The Role Jiga is on a mission to help engineers build physical products faster. Our customers are increasingly bringing us production work - not just one-off prototypes. They want us to take a part from first article through low-volume to mass production without losing geometry, blowing tolerances, or surprising them on price.

We're hiring a Manufacturing / NPI Engineer to be the technical and process spine that makes production-class work repeatable. You'll own the engineering side of new-program introduction: design-for-manufacture review, first-article inspection planning, configuration and revision control, qualification protocols, and the technical project management that gets a customer from 'prototype that worked' to 'production run we trust.'

What You'll Do Own the NPI funnel from RFQ to production

• Be the technical owner on every program that has a path to production
• Run structured DFM reviews on incoming production candidates
• Define the process to move a part from prototype tooling to production tooling
• Partner with the customer's engineering team on design questions, alternative materials, and process trade-offs

Own FAI, qualification, and quality protocols

• Build and own Jiga's First Article Inspection process
• Define qualification protocols for parts moving from prototype to production
• Author control plans and inspection plans where the customer or the part complexity demands it
• Own the engineering side of customer-driven supplier audits

Enforce configuration and revision control

• Apply rigorous configuration control: which revision of which drawing is in production, who approved it, what changed
• Enforce the ECN / ECO flow with both customers and suppliers
• Verify that what the customer drew, what the supplier received, and what the supplier shipped are all the same part

Be the engineering link to our suppliers

• Build deep, peer-level engineering relationships with our manufacturing partners
• Drive alignment up-front on every production program: process selection, tolerance interpretation, inspection plan
• Be on the ground when it matters: supplier qualification visits, audits, root-cause investigations

You're a fit if you

• Have 6+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering, NPI, or production engineering experience
• Have run a real NPI program from DFM through PPAP / FAI / qualification through ramp to volume
• Have hands-on experience with configuration control and revision management
• Are deeply fluent in FAI, control plans, inspection plans, and quality protocols (AS9102 / PPAP / ISIR)
• Have meaningful exposure to multiple manufacturing processes - CNC machining, sheet metal, injection molding, castings, additive
• Can run a technical project: timelines, gate reviews, RAID logs, stakeholder management