Manufacturing Maintenance Supervisor - Reliability & Safety

Newell Brands; Wichita (KS); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Newell Brands leads maintenance operations across shifts to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient equipment and facility support systems. The role drives workforce management, payroll, maintenance execution, and continuous improvement while aligning with plant leadership and safety standards.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in maintenance leadership within manufacturing, working with CMMS/Micromain, payroll processes, and cross‑functional collaboration to improve PM completion and reliability.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years industrial maintenance experience preferred.
• 3+ years maintenance leadership, supervisory, lead technician, shift coordinator or equivalent.
• Manufacturing maintenance experience required; 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; Maintenance Coordinators serve as hourly working leads while personnel management remains with this role.
• Enforce safety policies, PPE, housekeeping, SEAL safety practices, PEAK continuous improvement expectations, Newell Brands values, and the Code of Conduct.
• Audit work orders, labor reporting, troubleshooting notes, parts usage, corrective actions, repair documentation, inspection records, and follow-up recommendations for accuracy and completion quality.
• Partner with maintenance planning, PM supervision, production, engineering, quality, EHS, and plant leadership to improve PM completion, schedule compliance, backlog management, planned work execution, and reliability.
• Review downtime events, maintenance history, calibration/test records, technician feedback, and recurring failures to identify trends, lead root cause efforts, and reduce reactive maintenance.
• 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

Maintenance leadership

Shift coordination

Problem solving

Cross-functional collab

Education

Associate/technical degree

Bachelor in Engineering/Industrial Tech/Maintenance Mgmt/Business

Tools

CMMS/Micromain

Excel

SAP

AutoCAD

Job description

Newell Brands leads maintenance operations across shifts to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient equipment and facility support systems. The role drives workforce management, payroll, maintenance execution, and continuous improvement while aligning with plant leadership and safety standards.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in maintenance leadership within manufacturing, working with CMMS/Micromain, payroll processes, and cross‑functional collaboration to improve PM completion and reliability.