Distribution Maintenance Supervisor

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® - and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. 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.

The Distribution Maintenance Supervisor leads the day-to-day maintenance of a highly automated distribution center, with primary responsibility for the reliability and up time of the Dematic Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) and its integrated material-handling equipment. The supervisor directs a team of maintenance and fault technicians, drives a proactive preventive and predictive maintenance program, and partners with operations to ensure throughput, safety and service commitments are met.

This is a hands-on leadership role. The successful candidate combines strong technical depth in automated storage and retrieval technology with the people-leadership skills to develop a high-performing team and the discipline to sustain a safe, reliable and cost-effective operation.

• Own the reliability, availability and performance of the Dematic ASRS — including storage/retrieval cranes or shuttles, conveyor, sortation, palletizing/depalletizing and end-of-line equipment.
• Lead rapid troubleshooting and recovery of equipment faults and system stoppages to minimize downtime and protect order fulfillment.
• Monitor system performance through the warehouse control/execution software (e.g., Dematic iQ) and use data and alarms to identify and correct recurring failure modes.
• Build, schedule and enforce a preventive maintenance (PM) program for all automated and conventional material-handling assets, using the CMMS to plan work, track history and manage spare parts.
• Introduce and grow predictive maintenance practices (vibration, thermography, condition monitoring) to shift the team from reactive to proactive maintenance.
• Manage spare-parts inventory and critical-spares strategy to balance uptime risk against carrying cost.
• Supervise, coach and develop a team of maintenance and fault technicians; set priorities, assign work and review performance.
• Build technical capability across the team on Dematic ASRS and controls, closing skill gaps through training, cross-training and vendor support.
• Plan staffing and shift coverage to support continuous operation and manage overtime responsibly
• Champion a zero-injury safety culture and ensure all maintenance work follows Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), arc-flash, fall-protection and confined-space requirements.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, NFPA 70E and applicable local, state and federal regulations, and maintain accurate maintenance and safety records.
• Conduct risk assessments, incident investigations and root-cause analysis, and drive corrective actions to completion.
• Track and report key maintenance metrics — uptime, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), PM completion and maintenance cost.
• Lead reliability and continuous-improvement projects, applying root-cause and Lean/Six Sigma methods to eliminate chronic losses.
• Manage the maintenance budget for the area and control contractor, parts and service spend.
• Manage relationships with Dematic and other OEM/service partners, including service contracts, warranty work and on-site support.
• Support commissioning, upgrades and capital projects for automation and facility systems, coordinating with engineering and operations.

• 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience in a…