New Product Development Engineering Co-op
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About the Company
Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer, and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Their purpose is to elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. They believe their work and brands can positively impact their business, shareholders, people, and the planet. Fortune Brands fosters a high-performing team environment where employees are empowered to think big, learn fast, and make bold decisions. They support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged to be their authentic selves, and their differences are considered a key strength.
Job Description
As a New Product Development Engineering Co-op, you will work alongside Product Engineers to support the New Product Development process, taking products from ideation to commercialization. You will support the development of products for Moen, Master Lock, Therma-Tru, Larson, Yale, August, and others as part of the Fortune Brands Innovations portfolio. Your responsibilities will include material selection, analysis, and full design implementation. This role offers an excellent opportunity to learn and apply problem-solving skills, work on cross-functional teams, and understand the product engineering process.
Responsibilities
• Assist in the day-to-day support of engineering operations for assigned department.
• Learn and understand the engineering operations in assigned department.
• Assist in troubleshooting quality issues and implementing corrective actions.
• Develop and implement solutions for quality issues for consumers.
• Interface with plant Engineering, Production, Quality and Planning teams, as well as outside technical support vendors.
• Identify improvement opportunities, develop solutions and review with Senior Engineering Lead.
• Conduct Design of Experiments; create reports from learnings and present data to stakeholders.
• Run laboratory tests on product returns and design test fixtures as needed.
• Assist with product reworks and organize plant inspections.
• Compile, prepare and present data for project updates and technical presentations to plant leadership and/or management.
• Assist in 50 first programs for new product launches.
