Design Engineer Supervisor at Fortune Brands

You are an experienced design engineer with at least seven years of experience and a background in leading teams. You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering an

Work type: onsite

Location: Monterrey, N.L.

Type: Full-time

Summary

You are an experienced design engineer with at least seven years of experience and a background in leading teams. You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and possess the technical expertise to provide hands-on guidance in CAD, GD&T, and complex assembly design. **What makes it worth a look...** Fortune Brands is hiring for an on-site supervisor position at their new Innovation Center in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. This role offers the chance to lead product engineering projects and mentor a specialized design team within a global organization. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have seven or more years of design experience with active proficiency in SolidWorks. * Possess at least two years of experience in a formal leadership or supervisory role. * Maintain full bilingual fluency in English and Spanish. * Understand GD&T application and tolerance stack-up analysis for manufactured components.

Job Description

## Job Description
In Fortune Brands Innovation, Inc. we're looking a Design Engineer Supervisor for our New Innovation Center in Nuevo Leon, you will lead a group of design engineers and work with cross functional teams to support product engineering projects within a structured design/development process. Your design work will support our continuous improvement and cost reduction plans to improve the health of our business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervise and support a team of Design Engineers, providing technical guidance, daily direction, and performance feedback.


• Hands-on drafting work to support product engineering projects.


• Collaborate with Product Engineering to translate customer and regulatory requirements into clear design concepts, specifications, and detailed drawings.


• Lead design engineering execution for assigned projects, ensuring quality, timing, and technical rigor.


• Coach and mentor team members on design best practices, GD&T application, problem solving, and engineering standards. Assign and balance design workload, set priorities, and ensure commitments are met.


• Lead structured problem-solving activities, including root cause analysis and failure investigations.


• Ensure robust, manufacturable designs through active participation in Design Reviews and DFM/DFA.


• Continuously improving processes, skills, team environment and tools necessary to achieve FBIN product leadership strategy

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required


• Masters degree is preferred


• Fully Bilingual 


• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Design Engineering, including hands-on CAD work.


• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a technical lead or supervisory role.


• Strong experience with 3D parametric solid modeling (SolidWorks preferred).


• Working knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis for components and assemblies.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills for dealing with multiple levels of staff, customers and suppliers


• Ability to perform detail-oriented work accurately


• Strong organizational, prioritization, and time-management skills.


• Adaptable, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.


• Self-motivated team player with a hands-on leadership mindset.

Fortune Brands Innovation (FBIN) is built on industry-leading brands and innovation within our operating segments: Plumbing, Doors and Security. We have an impressive track record of strong financial results, market outperformance and growth, which translates into career and professional growth opportunities for associates. Please visit our website at [fbin.com](https://www.fbin.com/) to learn more.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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