Engineer – New Product Development
Sansera Engineering — Bengaluru
₹3–5 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time · onsite
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Quick answer: A fresher position at a Bengaluru automotive forging company, coordinating a new product from the customer's requirement through to PPAP approval. The accountability is for timelines, and you get things done by pushing design, quality, production, purchase, suppliers and PPC.
From Sansera Engineering's job posting
Posting Start Date
9/9/26
Job Description
Co-ordinate end-to-end New Product Development (NPD) planning and execution activities from customer/PM requirement to PPAP.
Plan and monitor project timelines, milestones, and Event schedules.
Demonstrate strong project management, leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills to effectively drive project execution.
Coordinate with Design, Quality, Production, Purchase, Supplier, PPC, and other cross-functional teams.
Drive prototype, tooling, fixture, trial, validation, and process development activities.
Possess good problem-solving, decision-making, analytical thinking, and risk management capabilities to address project challenges and meet objectives.
Coordinate PPAP preparation, submission, customer approval, and closure of observations.
Monitor forging, tooling, supplier, plant capacity, and production readiness for new products.
Exhibit strong customer handling, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills while coordinating with customers and suppliers.
Identify project risks, delays, and bottlenecks and implement appropriate recovery actions.
Ensure compliance with customer requirements, IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, and internal procedures.
Prepare NPD MIS, project status reports, dashboards, and management reviews.
Demonstrate effective presentation, reporting, time management, and organizational skills for management reviews and project tracking.
Drive a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, teamwork, and customer focus.
Ensure on-time launch, cost, quality, and customer satisfaction targets are achieved.
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HireSetu's note
The engineer title hides a coordination job
Read the verbs in this posting: co-ordinate, plan, monitor, drive, follow up. The design work belongs to the design team. You own the schedule from the customer's requirement to PPAP sign-off, and you get there by chasing half a dozen functions at once. Tooling, prototyping and forging appear in the skills list because you track those activities, not because you do them yourself.
Zero years, a lot of ownership
Handing a fresher cross-functional coordination across design, quality, production, purchase, suppliers and PPC is a stretch in a good way. Most of your first months go into learning who owns what and how long each step really takes, which is rarely what the plan says.
APQP and PPAP are named in the listing, so learn the APQP phases and what a PPAP submission pack holds before you apply. IATF 16949 basics matter too: the audit trail carries as much weight as the part itself.
Two years in, the options widen
NPD coordination in automotive is a well-worn path into program management, and a decent vantage point if you later want to specialise in quality or supplier development. APQP and PPAP vocabulary is the same at every Tier 1 and OEM supplier, so the experience travels across the industry, not just within forging. The customer-facing side of this job, handling escalations and resolving conflicts, is the part that reads well on a CV two years down the line.
Details to pin down
Confirm which location you'd be posted at, which customer program you'd start on, and whether you report to a program manager or an NPD lead. The job moves between plant, supplier and customer sites, so one address tells you only part of the week. Ask how many projects one engineer runs at a time and who signs off when a milestone slips. Trial and validation builds can run past normal hours even though NPD is a day-shift function.
Drafted with AI from Sansera Engineering's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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