Job Description
Fortune Brands Innovations, is hiring for a Lead Product Development Engineer to join our Emtek in City of Industry, CA.
This Lead Product Development Engineer will be an individual contributor that owns the design and development for our Emtek handle and entryways. You'll lead product development engineering teams on assigned projects from concept to production and be the spokesperson for your product.
This role's responsibilities include:
- Provide engineering support and technical assistance to all engineering customers, both internal and external
- Leads teams of engineers to develop products
- Plans and steers the technical development of products
- Product Development risks and mitigation plans
- Drive team to develop capable, cost-effective manufacturing and assembly processes concurrent to product design activities to ensure robust designs are delivered
- Interact with Marketing, Sales, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Designers, Purchasing, and suppliers to meet the specifications and needs of the customer in the development of new, reliable products for the market
- Can make the connections between all user requirements, through product requirements, and into subsystem specifications
- Maintains product platform mindset
- Develop, lead, and actively participate in Design Reviews / DFM / DFA for new products
- Mentor/Coach other team members in problem solving and engineering
- Continuously improve processes, skills, team environment and tools necessary to achieve Fortune Brand's product leadership strategy
- High proficiency in Dealing with Ambiguity, especially early in projects, to convey critical information to team members and stakeholders.
- Drives resolution of critical early decisions in product design
- Develop and identify intellectual property claims while working with project teams
- Communicate technical information (data, designs and updates) to a non-technical audience
- Collects, maintains, and disseminates the technical knowledge that the project learns
Position Location: This position is eligible to work in a hybrid environment our of our City of Industry, CA facility. Remote days are Monday and Friday.