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Plant TPM Leader

Owens Corning
Kansas City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Aug 2025

About the role

 

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The TPM Leader will report directly to the Plant Leader and enable the deployment of the Plant TPM Methodology at the Site.  This role supports the organization’s TPM Strategy as the way we will run our operations in the pursuit of zero loss.

Working closely with the Regional TPM Leader, Regional Pillar Leaders, Plant NLT, and the Plant Team Members, the employee will be responsible for leading the development and execution of the Site TPM Masterplan, training/teaching the TPM methodology, coaching teams to drive loss elimination through the implementation of the TPM pillars and assessing the progress.

 

Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market-leading innovator that has placed on the Fortune 500®. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe.  A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within each and every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope - human in scale.

 

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Promote Safety & Wellness Excellence

  • Maintain focus on safety in all TPM initiatives
  • Use TPM methodologies to continue the journey to zero incidents
  • Adhere to and continuously improve all safety policies, procedures and standards
  • Support and participate in wellness and community initiatives

 

Inspires and enables the plant leadership team to successfully drive to zero losses through the deployment of a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) operating system

  • Demonstrate strategic leadership by working with the Plant NLT to develop a TPM masterplan for the site that is linked to overall plant objectives of loss elimination.
  • Engage and inspire teams at all levels and across functions to achieve results through TPM Pillars.
  • Build support and shared accountability for successful deployment of TPM
  • Partner with internal and external consultants to effectively support and implement TPM
  • Member of the Plant NLT and TPM coach / mentor to the Plant Manager and Operations Manager
  • Serve as mentor/coach to develop excellence in the use of TPM methodologies
  • Build TPM capability in the Site through the Learn Do Teach model
  • Develop and deliver training as needed to build TPM knowledge, awareness, and capability across the plant
  • Anticipate and eliminate barriers to success
  • Identify, track, and communicate the metrics that measure TPM progress
  • Provide recognition for successes around sustained TPM systems and TPM capabilities built
  • Leads the weekly TPM drumbeat in the Plant, Coaches the daily TPM drumbeat in the plant

 

 

 

JOB REQUIREMENTS

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business, Engineering or related field preferred and 2+ years of TPM/Lean experience

Or

  • Associates Degree and 4+years of TPM/Lean experience
  • Prior experience with TPM deployment and leadership of AM, PM, FI and T&D Pillars internal or external to Owens Corning
  • Demonstrated ability to improve business results by working through others
  • Demonstrated ability to lead change to deliver results

 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

  • TPM (JIPM) certification
  • Proven track record of successful TPM implementation in a plant environment
  • Functional leadership i

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