Total Productive Maintenance Manager (TPM)
In this vital manufacturing role, you will lead Ecolab's Production System's highly visible Total Productive Maintenance transformation as we drive a cultural shift in how we continuously improve. As the TPM Manager for our Garyville, LA site expects to implement rapid change; be a hands-on team builder able to recognize others' resistance to change and lead individuals and teams through the change process. Gain recognition as you apply your competence in TPM, combined with on-the-job process expertise and stakeholder input to identify, prioritize and manage multiple improvement projects.
This is the perfect job if you are self-motivated, with a bias for action, a sense of urgency, and tendency to quickly take personal responsibility to drive improvements and culture shifts in manufacturing excellence.
Safety, Health and Environmental (SH&E)
- Improve plant safety through continuous improvement.
- Make improvements to the safety culture through TPM projects and interface with the Safety Pillar.
- Promote safety through all department functions.
- Participate in plant safety meetings, worksite inspections, SH&E audits & assessments, and other elements of the safety process.
- Conduct BBS observations to reinforce safe behaviors and correct at-risk behaviors within in the organization.
- Ensure incidents, accidents, and upset conditions are appropriately identified, communicated, managed, and investigated to ensure compliance with external and internal requirements.
Service
- Implement Ecolab’s Production System’s highly visible TPM Strategy within the plant using methodology aligned with Global framework and other capabilities, assume responsibility for extensive continued deployment, with focus of systems sustainability.
- Oversee external consultant activity on-site, as needed, but with objective of self-leadership independence and site autonomy.
- Implement rapid change.
- Be a hands-on team builder able to recognize change management challenges and lead individuals and teams through the change process.
- Identify, prioritize, and manage multiple improvement projects.
- Spend >50% of the day walking the plant working closely with employees and teams.
- Coordinate area projects with site 5s leader and Kaizen/lean events with facilitators.
- Track all TPM and savings projects in the Project Management Tool (PowerSteering) when appropriate.
- Complete the Self-Assessment exercise according to the required framework as they guide the on-going TPM progress according to the Global & Regional Master plans.
- Complete regular Plant Health Checks to ensure the plant continues to operate to TPM governance model.
- Support the Plant Manager in preparation of Plant related TPM audits.
Savings
- Support and drive implementation of Loss Analysis and TPM.
- Use Loss Analysis to identify the biggest opportunities using TPM methodology to systemically identify and minimize our major losses.
- Drive savings through loss analysis and deliver realistic savings opportunities, becoming the key driver to supply chain excellence and meet our savings goals.
- Maintain a cost reduction program by continuously evaluating operating methods and procedures and looking for more cost effective routes to accomplish results.
People Leadership
- Drive and develop improvement teams to support the Plant Manager.
- Promote the developing culture through TPM.
- Deliver TPM training aligned with Global TPM Strategy and Road Map.
- Represent site in Reaction Plant network TPM leadership group.
- Support manufacturing skills models to develop a Loss Analysis culture.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Logistics, Science, Business or a related area
- 6 years of Total Productive Maintenance leadership experience in a manufacturing/supply chain environment
- 3 years of experience in coaching. mentoring and leading cross-functional teams (including team building, understanding motivation and negotiation techniques, and providing work direction to others)
- 5 years of experience working with and understanding TPM principals and methods (including 5S, Autonomous Management, Planned Maintenance, Visual Management and Kaizen)
- No immigration sponsorship offered for this position
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced technical degree
- 5 years of experience in cross-functional project or program management, leading process improvement projects for special chemical processes, applying TPM in a JIPM TPM award winning plant, or working with the implementation and oversight of Operational Excellence initiatives in a manufacturing environment
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, leadership ability, outstanding decision-making skills, and excellent verbal and written skills
- 5 years of experience in a lean six sigma leadership role
- Proven experience driving large scale culture shifts
Our strategy is to embed the TPM pillars into everything we do in the plants and where applicable, expand this as part of the ‘TPM Everywhere’ into the end-to-end supply chain. We will focus TPM activities and training around the divisions’ CBN (compelling business needs) to ensure the program will be fully aligned with the business objective. We will manage the TPM program around a set of standard procedures and processes that will be agreed centrally and deployed locally, via the TPM managers. Our aim is for all plants to have a roadmap towards world class manufacturing standards (based on the TPM audit process) both in process as well as actual deliverables across safety, quality, cost, and service.
Immigration Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Annual or Hourly Compensation Range
The base salary range for this position is $104,700.00 - $157,100.00. This position is eligible for annual bonus pay based on performance, per plan terms. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.
Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits.
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Potential Customer Requirements Notice
To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:
- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.
- Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, including a booster if eligible, unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.
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At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are inclusive. We are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.
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