Maintenance Excellence Manager

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 out of our facility in Edmonton, Alberta and reports to the Senior Manager, 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 the Maintenance Excellence Manager, you will drive the implementation and continuous improvement of IPEX's Maintenance Excellence program across multiple manufacturing sites. Working closely with plant leaders and maintenance teams, you will champion maintenance best practices, including CMMS, Predictive Maintenance (PdM), Reliability Excellence, and technical capability development.

Through coaching, collaboration, and change leadership, you will help build sustainable maintenance systems that improve safety, increase equipment reliability, and support operational excellence across the organization.

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.
• Researching next level methods and/or technologies to promote continuous improvement for our people, tactics, standards and controls.
• Providing support in sourcing external 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 licenses, PMP or MMP
• 3+ years of experience in a Maintenance role (Planning/Scheduling, Leadership, Engineering), ideally within a manufacturing environment
• Demonstrated experience in Maintenance best practices (RCM, PdM, CMMS, etc)
• Training and instructional experience
• Proven experience in applying organizational change skills, with ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
• Self-starter with strong relationship building and influencing skills
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the time

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 [email protected]