Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Job Description

We are looking for an Industrial Design Intern to join our Fortune Brands Innovations Industrial Design team for the 2025 summer term with a desire to revolutionize the way people experience our products in and around the home. You will have the privilege of collaborating with an award-winning global team to support our brands such as Moen, House of Rohl, Masterlock, Sentry Safe, Thermatru, Larson, Yale, August and many more. As a member of the Industrial Design team, you will help support in the development of meaningful innovations and distinctive collections that serve a wide range of user needs and aspirations. At Fortune Brands Innovations, our purpose is to fulfill the dreams of home. Together, we will work to deliver impactful products to make the home smarter, safer and more beautiful than ever before.

This is a hybrid role located at our Moen HQ office in North Olmsted, Ohio with 3 days in the office per week.

Responsibilities

Support multiple fast-paced projects at one time within all Fortune Brands Innovations product categories including, plumbing, outdoors, security, and connected products, with mentorship from the FBIN industrial designers.
Assist the lead industrial designers on cross-functional FBIN project teams with design integrity and a passion for meaningful collaboration to balance what is desirable to our end users, what is viable for the business goals, and what is feasible to manufacture.
Support each phase of the design process across discovery research, initial concept development and testing, CAD development, and final design story documentation.
Apply advanced elements of art and principles of design to form, color, finishes, and graphics with regard to user-centered functionality and ergonomics.
Create sketches and 3D prototypes to explore ergonomics, human factors, and form issues.
Help develop cohesive product collections that possess shared strong visual collection language elements.
Define refined concepts with detailed color, material, and finish documentation.
Communicate with cross functional teams including engineering, product owners, and project managers to ensure concepts are clearly understood.
Assist with creating presentations that clearly communicate the authentic design story for each project to help inform commercialization strategies and marketing content creation.
Propel and evolve each of the brands visual brand language to meaningfully embody their core values.
Develop impactful, award-winning designs to elevate FBIN brands.

Qualifications

Actively pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design is required.
Demonstrated ability to execute responsibilities listed above.
Skill and experience in the following is required:
2-D hand + digital sketching and rendering skills:
Programs: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), Sketchbook Pro, Etc.,
3-D digital modeling and rendering skills:
Programs: Solidworks, Keyshot
Solidworks experience is preferred as this will be the mandatory CAD package for all FBIN projects to ensure efficient collaboration with engineering teams.
Strong verbal and visual presentation skills:
Programs: InDesign, PPT, Miro
Ability to clearly communicate design inspiration and intent internally to project teams and leadership teams as well as externally to customers and merchants.
A strong work ethic and ability to support multiple complex and fast-paced projects at once.
A keen eye for global trend forecasting across macro cultural drivers, fashion, architecture, furniture, housewares, kitchen, bath, and CMF.
A strong passion for thoughtful form development across ALL décor styles, from traditional to contemporary.
Knowledge of manufacturing processes and demonstrated ability to produce great designs while working with tight manufacturing constraints.
Flexible, creative, resilient, and driven to maintain design excellence from project start to finish.
Team-focused attitude, with the desire to share knowledge, assist others, and work together to achieve great results.

Additional Information

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $33,300 USD - $45,760 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

FBIN is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please contact us at fbinleave.fbhs@fbin.com and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Resumes submitted to this email address will not be responded to.

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