Maintenance Excellence Manager*** Responsable Excellence Maintenance

Axis Communications; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IPEX in Edmonton, Alberta seeks a Maintenance Excellence Manager to lead implementation and continuous improvement of the Maintenance Excellence program across multiple manufacturing sites. You will drive safety, reliability and operational performance by championing CMMS, PdM, and reliability initiatives, coaching leaders, and building sustainable maintenance systems.

You will partner with plant leaders, manage change, track improvements, and develop capability across teams, ensuring

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a Maintenance role (Planning/Scheduling, Leadership, Engineering) within manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience in Maintenance best practices (RCM, PdM, CMMS).
• Training and instructional experience.
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Promoting a people-first culture with a focus on safety and standard processes across Maintenance Teams.
• Championing maintenance best practices at multiple locations through assessments and change initiatives.
• Leading improvement projects from enterprise initiatives and plant needs.
• Researching next-level methods to enhance continuous improvement and asset reliability.
• Providing support in sourcing external partners for technical support and training.
• Interacting with plant leadership and front-line staff to implement plans and track progress.
• Creating action plans and ensuring sustained improvements across sites.

Skills

Maintenance knowledge

Leadership

Communication

Change management

Travel readiness

Education

Technical certification / PMP / MMP

Tools

CMMS

PdM (Predictive Maintenance)

RCM

Job description

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 [e-mail].

About Aliaxis

At Aliaxis, we design sustainable, easy to install, and innovative solutions to address the world’s water challenges and accelerate the transition to clean energy. Thanks to our 15,000+ employees in over 40 countries, our pipes and fitting systems meet our customers’ most demanding needs for the building, infrastructure, industrial and agriculture sectors. Read more about us www.aliaxis.com.

Aliaxis’ Purpose

Aliaxis has embarked on a positive journey with its “Growth with Purpose” strategy, implementing ambitious, urgent actions for sustainability and innovation that will pay off in the short term. By 2025, we will be focusing on the areas where we can create the biggest impact: on carbon reduction in our plants and on increasing the share of recycled content in our products. In conjunction, we will continue to develop more and better water solutions for society as a whole.

We are looking for passionate people that want to be part of our journey and embrace the behaviors that we at Aliaxis stand for:

• We Dare to challenge the status quo, to innovate and to learn fast.
• We Care for the environment, our customers and each other.
• We Deliver by taking accountability for our decisions and actions.