Product Development Engineer

Product Development Engineer

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is looking for a Product Development Engineer for our New Innovation Center in Nuevo Leon. You will work with cross functional teams to design, develop, and validate product changes from concept to launch. You will mentor new talent, especially entry level engineers with the possibility to mentor interns. Your design work will support our continuous improvement and cost reduction agendas to improve the health of our business.

As the Product Engineer you will work with cross functional teams to design, develop, and validate product changes from concept to launch. You will mentor new talent, especially entry level engineers with the possibility to mentor interns. Your design work will support our continuous improvement and cost reduction agendas to improve the health of our business.

• 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 DFMEA's, design reviews and utilize other robust engineering practices such as DOE's, tolerance stackups, limit testing, FEA, etc. to bring new products through production into the market place predictably.
• Liaison with supply chain personnel, vendors, and manufacturing staff for the specification and sourcing of raw materials, components and final products.
• Develop DVP's, coordinate testing, and provide hands-on 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 Quality department to address any outstanding internal and external quality and product issues.
• Support cross-functional team members by mentoring on 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 review.

Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in Engineering (Mechanical preferred).
• Valid visa
• Availability to travel
• Minimum of 5 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 3-D Parametric Solid Modeling (Solid Works is a plus), Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Cross functional experience in interfacing with sourcing, quality, and manufacturing within product development, cost-out, continuous improvement and other business-led initiatives.
• Experience in DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS (DOE).
• Superior written and oral communication skills.
• Strong strategic thinking skills.
• Desire to work hands-on, prototype and troubleshoot proactively.
• Experience interfacing with intellectual property counsel.
• Solidworks certification.
• Ability to perform tolerance stack-ups (GD&T), review process capability and manage changes accordingly.