About the Role Kidde Global Solutions is seeking a Productivity Engineer to drive cost reduction, value engineering, and manufacturing productivity improvements across Residential Fire products. The role focuses on identifying and implementing sustainable savings opportunities while maintaining product safety, quality, reliability, compliance, and supply continuity. Key Responsibilities • Identify and lead cost reduction, value engineering, and productivity improvement opportunities across existing product portfolios. • Drive design optimization, component standardization, material selection, and manufacturing efficiency improvements while maintaining product performance and quality. • Evaluate technical, reliability, compliance, and supply chain impacts of proposed changes and develop appropriate validation plans. • Lead engineering change implementation from concept through qualification, factory deployment, and savings realization. • Partner with Product Development, Component Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and Compliance teams to execute productivity initiatives. • Develop business cases, cost models, and savings forecasts; track and validate realized savings with Finance. • Ensure all productivity changes meet applicable safety, regulatory, and customer requirements.

Required • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline. • 5+ years of engineering experience in product development, sustaining engineering, value engineering, manufacturing engineering, or product-cost improvement. • Experience leading engineering changes from concept through validation and production implementation. • Demonstrated ability to analyze product cost and translate opportunities into executable technical projects. • Working knowledge of engineering drawings, bills of material, specifications, tolerance analysis, and change-control processes. • Experience working with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and manufacturing operations. • Strong analytical, project-management, and structured problem-solving skills. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with consumer electronics, embedded systems, electromechanical products, or life-safety products. • Knowledge of value analysis/value engineering, design-to-cost, teardown analysis, target costing, or should-cost methods. • Experience with design for manufacturing, design for assembly, Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous-improvement methods. • Familiarity with UL, FCC, EMC, RoHS, REACH, and related regulatory requirements. • Understanding of DFMEA, PFMEA, reliability testing, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action methods. • Experience with component qualification, alternate-source validation, and supplier change management. • Working knowledge of PLM, ERP, engineering change, and cost-management systems. • Experience supporting global engineering, supplier, and manufacturing teams.