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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.\nWe are looking for an experienced Facilities and Site Resilience Engineer to join the Engineering, Reliability & Automation (ERA) team within Global Procurement & Supply Network.\nThe Lead, Facilities & Site Resilience Engineering serves as the licensed technical authority for facilities, building protection, and site resilience across Newell Brands' manufacturing and distribution network. Working from the center, this role sets facilities standards, provides technical review and support to site and project teams, and builds the resilience programs and business continuity plans that protect physical sites and critical infrastructure. The role also helps ensure projects are scoped, designed, and executed to Newell standards.\nThe ideal candidate is a licensed Professional Engineer with 7+ years of experience delivering or overseeing facilities projects in manufacturing or industrial environments and is ready to influence at network scale. This individual builds structure where none exists, adopts new technology quickly, and uses AI-enabled workflows to improve the quality and speed of their work.\nThe PE license anchors the role's authority in design review, peer review, and engagement with authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) and property insurers. This is a technical leadership role, not a project delivery or design-of-record position.\nTop Priorities\nSite resilience and vulnerability assessments\nFire/life safety and facilities standards\nTechnical support and review of capital projects\nWhat You Will Own\nSite Resilience & Business Continuity\nOwn site resilience programs across the network, from vulnerability assessment through corrective action and verification\nAssess sites against ASCE 7-22 wind, snow, and seismic thresholds and FEMA flood zone criteria, translating findings into prioritized mitigation roadmaps\nBuild redundancy strategies for critical utilities, including power, compressed air, chilled water, HVAC, and domestic water\nDevelop facility-focused business continuity plans, escalation frameworks, and recovery time objectives for buildings and critical utilities that sites can execute independently, in partnership with Operations and EHS\nBuilding Protection & Fire/Life Safety\nSet and maintain global 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SOW templates and contractor qualification criteria that project teams can reuse across the network\nSupport site teams with contractor selection and performance and help resolve technical issues in the field\nPower, Energy & Water Systems\nSupport standby generation, transfer switch, UPS, and backup power deployment, from site preparation through commissioning\nLead and support energy programs, including lighting, VFD optimization, power factor correction, and utility incentive capture\nSupport solar, microgrid, and self-generation feasibility work in partnership with the ERA Sustainability pillar\nPartner with process water engineering on cooling towers, closed-loop treatment, and Legionella prevention\nAssessments, Standards & Verification\nConduct structured site assessments and engineering peer reviews\nMaintain site condition scorecards and standards compliance matrices that inform capital planning\nDefine measurement and verification protocols and review results on completed projects to confirm alignment with scope, performance targets, and savings identified in appropriation packages\nDevelop facilities engineering standards and lead updates through the standards publishing workflow\nSupport international projects, working with regional teams to apply Newell standards alongside local codes and AHJ requirements\nFinancial Ownership & Reporting\nReview capital justification packages, ROI models, and bid comparison matrices developed by site and project teams\nBuild tools and templates to improve consistency and quality across the network\nSupport three-year capital planning and maintain portfolio-level status reporting that provides senior leaders with clear, decision-ready information\nRequired Qualifications\nActive Professional Engineer (PE) license in a U.S. state\nBachelor's degree in an engineering discipline such as Mechanical, Civil, Architectural, or Fire Protection Engineering\n7+ years of experience in facilities, plant, or infrastructure engineering, including delivering, managing, or overseeing capital projects in an industrial, manufacturing, or distribution environment\nWorking technical command of HVAC, roofing, building envelope, civil, and fire protection systems, with the ability to critically review designs and proposals\nExperience conducting site assessments, audits, or resilience and vulnerability studies and translating findings into funded action plans\nDemonstrated experience developing or reviewing contractor scopes, RFPs, and project budgets and holding contractors accountable to scope, schedule, and cost\nAbility to influence site and project teams through technical credibility and sound engineering judgment without direct authority\nWorking knowledge of NFPA 13 and 25, ASCE 7-22, OSHA 29 CFR, and local AHJ requirements\nProficiency in the Microsoft Office suite for project tracking and executive communication\nStrong written and verbal communication skills\nAbility to travel up to 50%, including international travel as projects require\nHighly Valued Differentiators\nPE license in Mechanical Engineering, particularly HVAC and refrigeration, Civil, Structural, or Fire Protection Engineering\nExperience with greenfield construction or major facility expansion projects, including design review, construction management, commissioning, and startup\nExperience with property insurer loss prevention standards, such as FM Global\nFamiliarity with NFPA 72, NFPA 101, NFPA 110, NFPA 70 (NEC), IBC, and CMMS platforms\nHands-on experience with measurement and verification, including baseline establishment and post-implementation reporting\nExperience with on-site power generation, compressed air optimization, or process cooling water systems\nExperience supporting projects at international sites, including working with non-U.S. codes and standards\nRegular use of AI tools, Power BI, Power Automate, and SharePoint within engineering workflows\nCFM, CPE, CEM, or CFPS credential, or NIMS/ICS training\nWhat Sets the Best Candidate Apart\nThe ERA team is a lean, focused engineering group that values ownership, sound judgment, and a high standard of work product. The right person for this role:\nWalks a facility, identifies what does not meet standard, and returns with a prioritized, actionable plan\nTakes ownership of programs and standards and drives them through completion\nBrings a clear point of view backed by sound engineering judgment and works constructively with site teams, project teams, contractors, and insurers\nUses AI and digital tools to improve the speed and quality of their work\nReviews vendor proposals with a critical eye and identifies what is missing, overpriced, or out of specification\nPrepares clear, decision-ready materials that senior leaders can use without reformatting\nAsks the right questions upfront and brings solutions along with identified problems\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. 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