# Staff Engineer, NPI

Location: Onsite, four days per week - Kohler, WI Opportunity As a Staff Engineer, New Product Integration (NPI) provide technical and operational leadership for New Product Integration (NPI) initiatives, serving as a manufacturing subject matter expert and thought partner to Product Development, Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality teams. This role will drive outcomes through influence, deep expertise, and systems-level thinking rather than positional authority, while synchronizing with plant NPI and Operations teams to ensure new products are “Right the First Time,” achieving Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost. Specific Responsibilities Act as the primary manufacturing engineering authority on assigned NPD/NPI programs, shaping manufacturing strategy, process design, and execution models to ensure products are Right the First Time across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost. Lead advanced Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA), FMEA, process capability analysis, and design reviews, identifying systemic risks and recommending design or process changes with enterprise impact. Define and standardize manufacturing process requirements, tooling concepts, and engineering spe

- **Id**: 3701263
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kohler-staff-engineer-npi>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Kohler, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T12:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T12:27:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3827
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Hotels & Resorts, Kitchens, Bathrooms & Home Improvement

## Company

- **Id**: 1756392
- **Name**: Kohler
- **Domain**: kohler.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kohler>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Cornerstone

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 18
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T19:34:44Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 30 · green card filings: 12; Filings 12m: 30

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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