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Our culture is built on values in action: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact-supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day.\nThe opportunity\nGraco Children’s Products is seeking a Principal Design Engineer to lead engineering work on new and existing durable consumer products. You will scout and develop technologies for use within the Newell Brands Product Development Process, champion new product development from conception through production launch, and ensure products meet cost, timing, quality, and technical specifications.\nThis is a senior individual-contributor role with broad influence and no formal people-management responsibility. You will recommend platform architecture, guide large and complex programs, and work across Marketing, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and global supplier teams. 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Some travel may be required.\nWhat you will do\nBusiness and program leadership\nChampion engineering execution for NPD projects from conception through production launch while following the Newell Brands Product Development Process.\nUnderstand category profit-and-loss drivers and influence decisions affecting program margins, cost, revenue, schedule, quality, and overall financial health.\nValidate program success requirements, define the most timely and cost-effective path forward, and influence department budget priorities to support business objectives.\nReview project proposals cross-functionally, establish technical specifications, and develop timing and action plans for large-scope programs in partnership with senior Program Managers.\nTechnical leadership and innovation\nRecommend the architecture and product-design approach for an entire platform to ensure performance, scalability, and design consistency.\nDevelop fully engineered products and solutions autonomously or as the lead engineer on a project team, applying expert judgment with minimal guidance.\nScout, assess, and implement existing, emerging, and disruptive technologies at the project and category level, with an emphasis on electromechanical power transmission and motion control.\nApply advanced knowledge of product specifications, material selection, manufacturing processes, cost constraints, sustainability, and the regulatory and legal landscape to deliver efficient, high-quality products.\nCreate and review 3D CAD models, assemblies, engineering drawings, interface definitions, tolerance analyses, bills of materials, and design-change documentation.\nLead prototyping, design validation, technical reviews, risk assessment, test planning, and systematic root-cause analysis to resolve complex product and manufacturing problems.\nDemonstrate expert knowledge of manufacturing technologies and use DFM/DFA principles to influence product architecture, supplier capability, tooling, process selection, quality, and production readiness.\nIdentify and recommend invention and ideation submissions to Intellectual Property counsel to build a defensible competitive advantage.\nCross-functional influence\nServe as a company subject-matter expert, providing creative solutions to business-critical challenges and roadblocks across organizational, cultural, and geographic boundaries.\nTranslate unmet consumer and market insights into product and system specifications that drive innovation and project execution.\nInformally direct technical-team execution, monitor product deliverables, and oversee technical status reporting and mitigation plans for management review.\nPartner with Marketing, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and domestic and global suppliers to balance NPD, productivity, derivative-product, and commercialization needs.\nChallenge prevailing viewpoints when appropriate, communicate complex technical concepts in clear language, negotiate cross-functional tradeoffs, and present opportunities in forums that promote ideation and technical sharing.\nSet engineering standards and reusable design practices while coaching engineers through technical feedback, design critique, and hands-on problem solving.\nWhat you bring\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.\n10+ years of product-development experience, including a proven record of driving successful durable-consumer-goods launches on time, on cost, on budget, and to specification.\nExpert-level proficiency in 3D CAD modeling of parts and assemblies; Creo experience is preferred.\nDeep knowledge of GD&T, tolerance stack-up, fits, materials, manufacturing processes, and the design of complex mechanical assemblies.\nDemonstrated experience developing products that integrate electronics, motors, sensors, wiring, controls, power transmission, motion control, or other electromechanical systems.\nExpert problem-solving skills and a systematic approach to problem definition, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and verification of the solution.\nStrong prototyping, design-validation, test-development, and model-building skills.\nExperience with intellectual property, invention disclosures, patents, and collaboration with IP counsel.\nExperience leading complex projects with domestic and global suppliers from development through production qualification.\nStrong working knowledge of PLM/PDM systems, specifications, BOMs, ECO/ECN workflows, and production documentation.\nEffective planning and organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, risks, schedules, and technical deliverables.\nExcellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with a record of leading through influence and aligning diverse stakeholders on difficult technical decisions.\nProficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Project, and PowerPoint.\nPreferred qualifications\nAdvanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline.\nExperience in the relevant product category or a highly regulated product-development environment.\nExpertise in one or more relevant specialties, such as mechanisms, structural analysis, thermal management, fluids, acoustics, shock and vibration, or precision systems.\nExperience with reliability engineering, FMEA, statistical methods, Design for Six Sigma, cost optimization, or high-volume manufacturing.\nHow success will be measured\nNPD programs launch on time, on cost, on budget, and to agreed quality and technical specifications.\nProduct and platform decisions improve consumer value, reliability, manufacturability, sustainability, margin, and long-term design consistency.\nCritical technical and program risks are identified early, supported by clear mitigation plans, and retired with objective evidence.\nNew technologies, intellectual property, and reusable engineering practices create measurable category and enterprise value.\nCross-functional teams and global suppliers remain aligned on priorities, tradeoffs, responsibilities, and execution.\nWorking conditions\nThis role requires hands-on work in laboratories, prototype shops, supplier facilities, and manufacturing environments. Some domestic and international travel may be required.\nNewell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. 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