Manufacturing Maintenance Lead – Reliability & Safety

Newell Brands; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Newell Brands is seeking a Maintenance Leader to oversee maintenance operations across shifts, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient systems for manufacturing equipment and facility support. You will manage a multidisciplinary team, payroll processes, and skill development while driving continuous improvement across the plant.

The role requires strong leadership, hands-on maintenance expertise, and the ability to coordinate with planning, engineering, quality, EHS, and operations to optimize PM

Qualifications

• 7+ years industrial maintenance experience preferred.
• 3+ years maintenance leadership, supervisory, lead technician, or equivalent experience preferred.
• CMMS/Micromain, payroll approval, timekeeping, scheduling, PMs, troubleshooting, work order management, and project support preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily maintenance activities and assign resources to production needs, emergency breakdowns, preventive/planned maintenance, project work, and improvement activities.
• Direct Maintenance Coordinators, Maintenance I/II Technicians, Industrial Electrician/PLC Technicians, and other assigned maintenance personnel; Management of personnel remains with supervisor.
• Enforce safety policies, PPE, housekeeping, SEAL safety practices, PEAK CI expectations, Newell Brands values, and Code of Conduct.
• Audit work orders, labor reporting, troubleshooting notes, parts usage, corrective actions, repair documentation, inspection records, and follow-up recommendations for accuracy.
• Partner with maintenance planning, PM supervision, production, engineering, quality, EHS, and plant leadership to improve PM completion, schedule compliance, backlog management, and reliability.
• Review downtime events, maintenance history, calibration/test records, technician feedback, and recurring failures to identify trends and lead root cause efforts.
• Manage payroll review/approval, attendance, overtime, leave requests, shift coverage, training records, certifications, qualification matrices, and labor efficiency.
• Coach, develop, recognize, and hold employees accountable; support performance evaluations, corrective action, hiring, onboarding, succession planning, skill gap closure, and cross-training.
• Oversee maintenance support for projects, equipment installations, repairs, upgrades, startups, contractor/vendor work, safety expectations, documentation, and project closeout.
• Maintain strong shift handoff and communicate equipment status, downtime concerns, staffing needs, safety risks, project updates, and resource constraints.

Skills

Leadership

Supervisory

Payroll

Safety

Maintenance planning

Root cause analysis

Team coaching

Education

Associate/technical degree

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Excel

Micromain

SAP

AutoCAD

Job description

Newell Brands is seeking a Maintenance Leader to oversee maintenance operations across shifts, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient systems for manufacturing equipment and facility support. You will manage a multidisciplinary team, payroll processes, and skill development while driving continuous improvement across the plant.

The role requires strong leadership, hands-on maintenance expertise, and the ability to coordinate with planning, engineering, quality, EHS, and operations to optimize PM