Main Search Grid Hide/Show Based on Group Identities

We are being tasked with limiting the Properties that certain group Identities can see on the main and relationship search grids.  For example, our Part item type has a number of different Views.  Each view is tailored to a certain department in our company.  However, the main and relationship search grids show all of the properties our Engineering department can see.  The head of Engineering is not happy with this.  Currently I am logging in as each individual user that is to be limited on the grid views, using the Refine button to remove the properties they shouldn’t be seeing and then stripping the user of the ability to change the Refined settings.  This process is borderline torture.  Is there a better way to handle this?