Senior Director Engineering

Company Overview

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company. We’re focused on exciting opportunities within the home, security and commercial building markets. Our driving purpose is to 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.

At Fortune Brands, we’re building something big. We’re advancing exciting innovations in all of our products and processes. We’re delivering trust, dependability, sustainability, and style. To make it all happen, we’ve transformed our workplace into an environment where smart, ambitious people have the support to reach their fullest potential. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high‑performing team empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions.

We support an inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

We are seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Director, Engineering to join our Engineering Center of Excellence at FBIN.

25300 Al Moen Dr, North Olmsted, Ohio

• Serve as a key member of FBIN’s Portfolio Management team to ensure the portfolio aligns with business strategies, providing the right balance between Growth & Value while optimizing efficiency in resource and dollar investments.
• Partner with Market SBUs, Innovation and Operations teams to supply technical inputs to Growth & Improve product plans, drive global product specifications and execution of product engineering for Growth & Value.
• Serve as a key member of FBIN’s Global Product Development Technical leadership team to improve consistency of global execution, increase resource flexibility, improve development velocity, drive efficiencies and maximize value creation.

• Lead Product Engineering, sustaining the Engineering Center of Excellence across FBIN for all brands and markets.
• Partner with Product Management, Innovation, and Platforms teams to develop, plan and execute product strategies that achieve Growth and OI objectives and align with FBIN’s overall strategic portfolio requirements.
• Partner with Operations internal and external suppliers to ensure critical manufacturing and assembly processes needed to successfully execute product strategies.
• Drive efficiency and speed to market by leveraging CAE and Simulation technologies for product optimization and validation. Lead the transition from physical testing to virtual validation via digital twins.
• Accountable for the design, development and continuous improvement of the product portfolio. Lead global coordination and assignment of technical project work, design reviews, DFMA, and attribute development for products.
• Accountable for the execution of the engineering teams and ensuring they meet aggressive timing, performance, cost and quality objectives. Establish and manage global engineering budgets.
• Responsible for monitoring and measuring the performance of development teams against defined objectives and providing regular cadence of updates to the FBIN leadership team.
• Responsible for attracting, developing and maintaining the engineering, technical and design talent needed to successfully execute the product development strategies.
• Responsible for leading major change management initiatives.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Innovation leaders to understand and drive the Consumer Experience into FBIN’s products. Understand consumer’s needs/wants/desires; apply these insights into impactful product attributes and features.
• Implement and drive execution of Technology Road Maps – driving cost and performance improvements across all products.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; MBA preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in progressively responsible positions in design, development and testing of consumer durable products.
• Minimum 5 years of experience successfully leading multiple cross‑functional teams.
• Broad knowledge of…