Senior Product Development Engineer

As the Senior Product Engineer you will work with crossfunctional teams to design develop and validate product changes from concept to launch. You will become a subject matter expert and serve as a mentor for new talent. Your design work will support our continuous improvement and cost reduction agendas to improve the health of our business. 

YOUR ROLE:

• Learn and apply lean product development tools systematic problem solving and critical thinking to new continuous improvement projects. 
• Successfully execute the development and implementation of product changes.
• Understand and actively manage system design requirements conduct system DFMEAs design reviews and utilize other robust engineering practices such as DOEs tolerance stackups limit testing FEA etc. to bring new products through production into the marketplace predictably.
• Liaison with supply chain personnel vendors and manufacturing staff for the specification and sourcing of raw materials components and final products.
• Develop DVPs coordinate testing and provide handson troubleshooting to ensure requirements are met.
• Assure product quality with thorough validation of production fabrication (via executing plant trials) assembly and installation processes.
• Provide manufacturing and operations support during critical product launch phases.
• Work closely with the Quality department to address any outstanding internal and external quality and product issues.
• Support crossfunctional team members by mentoring areas of expertise for technical questions and solutions in at least one engineering or product area.
• Set examples for excellence in engineering practice and rigor by successfully coaching junior engineers inside and outside of peer reviews as well as design reviews.

Qualifications :

• B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 8 years product design and development experience.
• New product development launch and Stage Gate experience.
• Proven track record of delivering products and/or processes to launch with differentiated innovative fit form and function and/or reduced cost.
• Experience with 3D Parametric Solid Modeling (Solid Edge or Solid Works is a plus) Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office products (Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook). 
• Significant cross functional experience in interfacing with sourcing quality and manufacturing within product development costout continuous improvement and other businessled initiatives.
• Superior written and oral communication skills.
• Strong strategic thinking skills.
• Desire to work handson prototype and troubleshoot proactively.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• M.S. degree in Engineering. (Mechanical)
• Solidworks certification.

Additional Information :

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $80000 USD $126500 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range or be above or below the range based on factors including but not limited to education training experience professional achievement business need and location. In addition to base salary employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a rolebased sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates unique needs. This includes robust health plans a marketleading 401(k) program with a company contribution product discounts flexible time off benefits (including halfday summer Fridays per policy) inclusive fertility / adoption benefits and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand innovation and channel leader focused on exciting supercharged categories in the home products security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen House of Rohl Aqualisa SpringWell ThermaTru Larson Fiberon Master Lock SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin ancestry age disability marital status protected veteran status sexual orientation genetic history or information or any other legally protected characteristic.

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