Manager, Product Integrity — Connected Products
About The Position
Fortune Brands Innovations is hiring a Manager, Product Integrity for its Connected Products team. Product Integrity confirms 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 leads the team and translates requirements from Product, Systems Architecture, and Compliance into tests with defined methods, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria. The role also owns 100% end-of-line factory testing, including test fixture design and test software. Fixtures may be developed in-house or with a supplier, depending on complexity. The role calls for a systems architect who can lead a test team and understand how electrical, mechanical, and firmware elements interact. The manager leads test engineers responsible for production and 100% testing, hardware testing, reliability testing, quality inspection, and confirmation of product requirements. The position is eligible for a hybrid work environment in North Olmsted, Ohio, or San Francisco, California. The lab is in North Olmsted; employees based in San Francisco should expect occasional travel there. Travel is approximately 15%, including to factories in Nogales and Tecate, Mexico, Hanoi, Vietnam, and between North Olmsted and San Francisco.
Requirements
- 10+ 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 (V&V) plans.
- Reliability engineering fluency, including accelerated life testing, Weibull and AFR calculations, sample sizing at a stated confidence level, HALT/HASS, thermal, drop, 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 involving 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 of test engineers and set the team's direction and standards.
- Translate hardware requirements in product requirements documents from Product, Systems Architecture, and Compliance into testable requirements with test methods, sample sizes, acceptance criteria, and gates.
- Provide evidence packages for each stage gate (EVT, DVT, and PVT), documenting what was tested, against which requirement, and with what result.
- Define reliability test plans for each program and own the associated statistics, including 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 returns and field data and feed findings back into requirements and test plans.
- Own 100% end-of-line testing at the factory, including test fixture design and test software.
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
