Maintenance Excellence Manager- South West

IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Maintenance Excellence Manager! This role is based at our facility in Lawton, Oklahoma and reports to the Director of Maintenance Excellence.

Do not miss the opportunity to join a diverse group of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!

Job Summary

As Maintenance Excellence Manager, the successful candidate will partner with the Maintenance Excellence Team and Plant Management Teams to design, deliver and support the processes and methods associated with the Maintenance Excellence program.

The Maintenance Excellence Manager will engage the plant teams for the implementation of standard methodologies and systems such as CMMS, PdM, reliability excellence and people development while readying the local teams to ensure best practices are sustainable. This role is instrumental in providing IPEX plants the resources and knowledge needed to enhance safety and equipment reliability.

This role will require the ability to travel up to 40% of the time.

Principal Responsibilities

• Promoting a people first culture with an unwavering dedication to safety and driving standard processes amongst our Maintenance Teams.

• Championing maintenance best practices at multiple locations through assessments, gap analysis and organizational change.

• Completing improvement projects driven by both enterprise initiatives as well as specific plant needs.

• Support and follow all EHS policies and procedures, as well ensure the same standards are engrained as an integral part of the assessments, gap analysis’ and improvements of the Maintenance Excellence program.

• Researching next level methods and/or technologies to promote continuous improvement for our people, tactics, standards and controls.

• Providing support in sourcing eternal partners for technical support, consulting, technology and training.

• Directly interacting at the plant level with key collaborators from leadership, management and front-line.

• Creation and execution of action plans to support improvement initiatives.

• Tracking and reporting on project status’ and quantified improvement measurements

• Conduct regular site assessments to ensure improvement initiatives are being sustained by the plant maintenance teams.

• Creation of AFE’s to acquire support and funding for initiatives.

• Lead or support Job Hazard Assessments (JHA) and Technical Need Analysis’ (TNA) to identify gaps and opportunities.

• Train key partners in methods and tools associated to continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Technical certification such as trades license, PMP or MMP and/or Bachelors Degree in related field

• 5+ years of experience in a Maintenance Leadership role

• Manufacturing background is strongly preferred

• Demonstrated experience in Maintenance best practices (RCM, PdM, CMMS, etc)

• Proven experience in applying organizational change skills

• Training and instructional experience

• Strong relationship building with excellent written and oral communication skills

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IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at HR@ipexna.com