Lead Facilities Engineer
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Lead facilities resilience, fire/life safety, and capital-project technical review for Newell Brands’ global consumer products manufacturing network. Establish engineering standards and business continuity programs across sites.
Responsibilities:
- Own site resilience programs across the manufacturing and distribution network
- Assess sites against ASCE 7-22 wind, snow, and seismic thresholds and FEMA flood zone criteria
- Develop prioritized mitigation roadmaps, redundancy strategies, business continuity plans, escalation frameworks, and recovery time objectives
- Set and maintain global standards for fire suppression, sprinkler, fire alarm, clean agent, and smoke control systems
- Review design packages, contractor proposals, and AHJ submittals against NFPA standards and local codes
- Define inspection, testing, and maintenance programs and track deficiency closure and compliance
- Partner with property insurers and AHJs on loss prevention recommendations and compliance gap closure
- Provide technical review and support for facilities capital projects from scope definition through closeout without owning project delivery
- Review scopes, RFPs, SOWs, design packages, contractor proposals, and bid leveling for facilities systems and site work
- Develop reusable scope, RFP, SOW, and contractor qualification templates
- Support contractor selection, performance management, and resolution of field technical issues
- Support standby generation, transfer switch, UPS, backup power, energy, solar, microgrid, self-generation, process water, cooling tower, and Legionella prevention initiatives
- Conduct structured site assessments and engineering peer reviews
- Maintain site condition scorecards and standards compliance matrices
- Define measurement and verification protocols and review completed-project results
- Develop facilities engineering standards and lead updates through the standards publishing workflow
- Support international projects with regional teams, local codes, and AHJ requirements
- Review capital justification packages, ROI models, and bid comparison matrices
- Support three-year capital planning and maintain portfolio-level status reporting for senior leaders
Requirements:
- Active Professional Engineer (PE) license in a U.S. state
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline such as Mechanical, Civil, Architectural, or Fire Protection Engineering
- 7+ years of experience in facilities, plant, or infrastructure engineering, including delivering, managing, or overseeing capital projects in an industrial, manufacturing, or distribution environment
- Working technical command of HVAC, roofing, building envelope, civil, and fire protection systems
- Experience conducting site assessments, audits, or resilience and vulnerability studies and translating findings into funded action plans
- Demonstrated experience developing or reviewing contractor scopes, RFPs, and project budgets and holding contractors accountable to scope, schedule, and cost
- Ability to influence site and project teams through technical credibility and sound engineering judgment without direct authority
- Working knowledge of NFPA 13 and 25, ASCE 7-22, OSHA 29 CFR, and local AHJ requirements
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite for project tracking and executive communication
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to travel up to 50%, including international travel as projects require
- Highly valued: PE license in Mechanical, Civil, Structural, or Fire Protection Engineering; greenfield construction or major facility expansion experience; FM Global standards; NFPA 72, 101, 110, 70 (NEC), IBC, and CMMS platforms; measurement and verification; on-site power generation, compressed air optimization, process cooling water systems; international codes and standards; AI tools, Power BI, Power Automate, and SharePoint; CFM, CPE, CEM, CFPS, or NIMS/ICS training
Benefits:
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- International travel opportunities as projects require
- Access to a collaborative, inclusive, high-performing work environment
- Opportunity to use AI-enabled workflows and digital tools
- Opportunity to influence engineering standards and programs at network scale
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