Maintenance Excellence Manager* Responsable Excellence Maintenance

IPEX Group; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IPEX is seeking a Maintenance Excellence Manager to drive the implementation and continuous improvement of the Maintenance Excellence program across multiple manufacturing sites in Edmonton, Alberta. You will champion maintenance best practices, including CMMS, PdM, reliability excellence, and capability development.

You will coach teams, lead change, and partner with plant leaders to build sustainable maintenance systems that improve safety, equipment reliability, and operational performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a Maintenance role (Planning/Scheduling, Leadership, Engineering)
• Experience with maintenance best practices (RCM, PdM, CMMS)
• Training and instructional experience
• Proven ability to drive organizational change and influence across levels
• Willingness to travel up to 40% of the time

Responsibilities

• Promote safety-first culture and standard processes among Maintenance Teams.
• Champion maintenance best practices across locations via assessments and change initiatives.
• Lead improvement projects driven by enterprise or site needs.
• Identify and evaluate next-level methods/technologies for continuous improvement.
• Assist in sourcing external partners for technical support and training.
• Interact with plant leadership, management and front-line staff.
• Create and execute action plans for improvement initiatives.
• Track project status and quantified improvements; report results.
• Conduct site assessments to sustain improvement initiatives.
• Create AFEs to fund initiatives.
• Lead or support JHA and TNA to identify gaps and opportunities.
• Train partners in continuous improvement methods and tools.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Leadership

Engineering

RCM

PdM

CMMS

Training

Change management

Stakeholder influence

Travel readiness

Education

Trades licenses or PMP/MMP

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]