Manager, Product Integrity — Connected Products
About The Position
Fortune Brands Innovations is hiring a Manager, Product Integrity to lead the Product Integrity team within Connected Products. The team verifies that connected products—including Flo by Moen water devices, Yale and August smart locks, and Master Lock connected padlocks—meet their requirements before reaching customers. The manager translates requirements from Product, Systems Architecture, and Compliance into tests with defined methods, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria. The role leads hardware testing across production testing, hardware testing, reliability testing, and quality inspection. It owns 100% end-of-line factory testing, including test fixture design and test software; fixtures may be built in-house or developed with a supplier depending on complexity. The manager is expected to understand how electrical, mechanical, and firmware elements interact, and to lead the lab and team that verify product requirements. The position may be based in a hybrid environment in North Olmsted, Ohio, or San Francisco, California. The lab is in North Olmsted. Employees based in San Francisco should expect occasional travel to North Olmsted. Travel is approximately 15%, including travel to factories in Nogales and Tecate, Mexico, Hanoi, Vietnam, and between North Olmsted and San Francisco.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of experience with connected consumer hardware spanning electrical, mechanical, and firmware.
- Experience developing factory test fixtures at both board level and end of line.
- Experience writing requirements and verification and validation plans.
- Reliability engineering expertise, including accelerated life testing, Weibull and AFR calculations, sample sizing at a stated confidence level, HALT/HASS, thermal testing, drop testing, and cycle-life testing.
- Ability to design reliability test plans and interpret failures.
- Production test experience with fixtures, test software, design for test (DFT), cycle time, and yield at a contract manufacturer.
- Experience leading a small technical team and setting direction for hands-on test engineers.
Nice To Haves
- Battery power model development.
- Experience with sensor products that have calibration and drift requirements.
- Experience with sealed or outdoor enclosures.
- RF performance characterization.
- Certification knowledge across safety (UL), RF (FCC), and interoperability (Matter/CSA); NSF/IAPMO for water products or BHMA for locks.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Product Integrity team, including test engineers responsible for production and 100% testing, hardware testing, reliability testing, and quality inspection.
- Translate hardware requirements from Product, Systems Architecture, and Compliance into testable requirements with methods, sample sizes, acceptance criteria, and gates.
- Provide evidence packages for each stage gate (EVT, DVT, and PVT), documenting what was tested, the applicable requirements, and results.
- Define reliability test plans for each program and determine sample sizes, confidence levels, and acceleration factors for environmental testing.
- Develop production test fixtures and test software that meet approved cycle times, with test limits tied to expected field performance.
- Review product returns and field data, and use findings to update requirements and test plans.
- Set the direction and standards for the test engineering team.
Benefits
- Annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a role-based sales incentive plan.
- Comprehensive health plans.
- 401(k) program with a company contribution.
- Product discounts.
- Flexible time off benefits.
- Adoption benefits.
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
