The NPI Specialist is responsible for all aspects of demand management and material planning and buying in support of new product introduction. The NPI Specialist also owns the item master, the integrity of the Bill of Material, the pre-production material pipeline, and certain aspects of the project schedule. In addition, role will contribute to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of new product introduction procedures and processes.

What You Will Do

• Responsible for NPI forecasts (both box and board); managing and owning all aspects of the integrity of the NPI demand line, from engineering build and prototype, through pilot, pre-production ramp, and production release
• Owns the item master, insuring all fields of the item master are complete and correctly configured
• Owns the integrity of the BOM in conjunction with Product Engineering, insuring that all required components of the BOM are in place and properly structured prior to production release
• Performs BOM health scrubs on NPI PCBAs, highlighting and escalating component obsolescence issues
• Responsible for the maintenance of NPI work orders, including opening, closing, and resolving variances
• Responsible for the transition to production release, including the creation and submission of the production release ECO, insuring that all data elements are correctly adjusted in the item master, BOMs are accurate, documentation is available and complete
• Responsible for the disposition of ECOs, including the assignment of quantity and costs, physical disposition of scrap material and initiation of replacement/additional material
• Responsible for all coordinating prototype and pilot PCBA assembly and test, working with identified CEM partners, communicating schedules, resolving shortages, etc
• Responsible for the correct transactional/physical movement of engineering purchased material
• Responsible for the planning of all the material associated with proto/pilot builds as well as ensuring that material is in the pipeline for the production ramp plan
•  Responsible for communicating any/all exceptions -material not on order, late deliveries, all process problems which delay cycle time, or BOM issues that may negatively impact product release schedules
• Participates in quarterly cost roll activity
• Participates in NPI/Focus team meetings and is responsible for objectives as assigned by those teams

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Knowledge and proficiency of procurement processes
• Knowledge of planning
• Ability to work within a team setting
• Ability to work with remote teammates
• Ability to drive teammates to closure

About Trimble

Trimble is an industrial technology company, concentrated on helping the world work better. Our technology enables jobs to get done more precisely and accurately so you can build, construct, grow and move the things we need to live our lives and build future communities.

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Pay Equity

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Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Hiring Range:

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Bonus Eligible?

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Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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