Associate Manager - CPD Mexico Technical Center

Location: Onsite, Nuevo Sur Opportunity The Manager – Engineering, Current Product Development (Faucets) serves as the engineering group leader for current product development activities for faucet products at the Mexico Technical Center. This role leads and develops a team of engineers focused on sustaining engineering, product optimization, cost reduction, quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and strategic engineering initiatives across the faucets portfolio.

The manager acts as a key integrator across Centers of Excellence, regional Faucets Operations teams, and global cross-functional partners. In addition, this role serves as the Regional Dimensional Engineering Lead for Mexico, providing leadership and coordination across dimensional engineering and robust engineering workstreams.

The role drives the regional deployment and adoption of dimensional engineering practices, methods, processes, tools, and capability-building programs, while connecting regional priorities and execution with the global Dimensional Engineering program. The position requires demonstrated experience leading people, New Product Development (NPD) projects, strategic cross-functional initiatives, and the deployment of engineering transformation programs such as Lean Product Development, Robust Engineering, or Dimensional Engineering.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a team of engineers and technical associates focused on faucet current product development and sustaining engineering.
• Provide clear direction, coaching, performance feedback, succession development, prioritization, and accountability for delivery through others.
• Lead strategic engineering initiatives that require alignment and execution across multiple functions, regions, and Centers of Excellence.
• Lead CPD projects and engineering workstreams from concept through validation, launch, and post-launch stabilization, ensuring alignment with business, quality, cost, and timing objectives.
• Apply and promote Lean Product Development principles to improve learning cycles, decision quality, collaboration, flow, and execution effectiveness.
• Champion Dimensional Engineering initiatives, including dimensional strategy, variation management, GD T application, tolerance analysis, measurement planning, and cross-functional design-to-manufacturing alignment.
• Serve as the Regional Dimensional Engineering Lead for Mexico, translating global program priorities into regional deployment plans aligned with business, product, and capability needs.
• Lead and coordinate regional Dimensional Engineering and Robust Engineering workstreams, ensuring alignment across development centers, product categories, operations teams, and technical subject-matter experts.
• Establish and sustain coaching, mentoring, training, and competency-development programs that strengthen dimensional and robust engineering capabilities across engineering teams.
• Drive the deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement of dimensional engineering methods, standards, processes, tools, and governance practices across the region.
• Build practitioner and subject-matter-expert networks, facilitate knowledge sharing, and support teams in applying dimensional strategy, GD T, tolerance analysis, variation management, measurement planning, and robust engineering methods to active programs.
• Track deployment progress, capability advancement, practice adoption, and program effectiveness; identify gaps, remove barriers, and communicate priorities, risks, and results to regional and global leadership.
• Oversee product changes including design updates, material and component changes, obsolescence management, supplier changes, and documentation updates.
• Guide multiple concurrent engineering workstreams and ensure robust decision-making, risk identification, and timely escalation.
• Ensure engineering solutions are developed and validated using DFMEA, risk assessments, design verification, testing, structured problem-solving, and robust engineering practices.
• Own engineering deliverables related to product specifications, regulatory compliance, reliability, quality, and performance.
• Guide staff in the use of standard engineering tools and methods such as CAD (Creo), GD T, DFMEA, FEA, validation planning, and engineering data management.
• Act as the primary engineering interface between MTC, regional Faucets Operations teams, and global Centers of Excellence.
• Partner with Marketing, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, VA/VE, Codes Standards, Program Management, Manufacturing, and other supporting functions.
• Analyze warranty, quality, cost, and performance data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement in products, processes, engineering tools, talent capabilities, and execution systems.
• Manage engineering capacity, project portfolio priorities, and resource allocation in alignment with business needs.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations on engineering progress, strategic initiatives, risks, decisions, and improvement proposals.
• Build strong internal networks and foster collaboration across regions and functions.
• Occasional domestic and international travel as required.