Director, Advanced Engineering

Company Description

Company Description:

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

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Job Description

The Director of Advanced Engineering is a member of the Product Development Strategy leadership team and is responsible for leading the technology development process, managing the finishing and packaging COE’s, and providing advanced technical services for the FBIN organization. The role requires broad experience in product development and life cycle management as well as the capability to develop and execute strategic plans.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a multi-group organization consisting of advanced design, packaging, finishing, material, and analytical engineers. Responsibilities include performance and workload management, career development and engagement on employee feedback.
• Lead Technology Development process and projects, including managing technology roadmaps, resource identification, delivering projects and continuous process improvements.
• Deliver revenue, margin and share growth by partnering with FBIN business units to execute top projects. This includes project prioritization, deployment of resources and driving accountability to deliver projects on time / budget.
• Develop strategic vision and framework for various functions within the group that includes goals, future state, tools needed and resourcing.
• Build an FBIN-wide technical community around advanced problem solving, analytics, methods and tools. This includes driving organizational awareness and utilization of critical processes, tools and methods such as FEA, CFD, TRIZ and internally developed design tools.
• Interface with key stakeholders of various FBIN functions and BUs to clearly define expected interactions and outcomes between groups.
• Create plans for interaction between the team and newly acquired companies to ensure appropriate adoption of standards, methods best practices.
• Communicate technical information and project status to senior leadership.
• Connect subject matter experts across the organization to deliver robust solutions.
• Evolve and create processes that help utilize and streamline resources and capabilities.
• Conduct organization assessments of future needs and gaps in skillsets and tools.

Qualifications

• 10+ years managing engineering teams in design-for-manufacturing environments, global experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field, Master’s degree and/or MBA preferred.
• Experience in the full spectrum of product development (definition, development, launch and life cycle management).
• Experience in defining, implementing and managing technical development processes.
• Proven ability to manage an engineering team with the entire corporation in mind (incorporating finance, manufacturing, sourcing, product management, etc).
• Proven ability to make data driven decisions.
• Proven ability to develop high performing teams.
• Desire to think creativity and innovate; comfortable with ambiguity.
• Ability to work cross functionally at varying organizational levels.
• Proven ability to communicate (verbal and written) at a Senior Leadership level.
• Brings a positive, problem solving, collaborative approach to work everyday.

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: $140,000 USD - $220,000 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 role-based sales incentive plan.

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