Maintenance Leader: TPM & Reliability Champion

Owens Corning; Fort Smith (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Quarterly bonus

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Vacation and 11 holidays

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Owens Corning Fort Smith Plant is seeking a Maintenance Leader to develop and execute the site maintenance and reliability strategy, leading both salaried and hourly teams while partnering with Operations, Engineering, Sourcing, EHS, Quality, and Finance to meet plant objectives.

The successful candidate will advance TPM, DMS, and RWP disciplines, improve asset health, reduce downtime, and develop talent through coaching and structured training across shifts and outages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Technology, Business, or related field preferred; equivalent manufacturing leadership experience may be considered.
• 3–5 years minimum leadership experience in a manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, or operations environment.
• Eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Experience leading maintenance or reliability systems including planning, scheduling, work execution, preventive maintenance, and root‑cause problem solving.
• Experience with TPM, DMS, RWP, Lean manufacturing or other formal CI systems preferred.
• Working knowledge of SAP PM, CMMS processes, maintenance planning, spare parts management, and equipment history systems preferred.
• Ability to work across shifts, weekends, outages, and emergencies as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance team with a strong focus on safety, environmental compliance, quality, reliability, cost, and customer service.
• Build a culture where safety is a condition of employment and risks are identified, corrected, and communicated with urgency.
• Develop and execute the maintenance and reliability strategy to improve asset health and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Serve as the Planned Maintenance pillar leader and actively participate in TPM governance and pillar master planning.
• Strengthen maintenance DMS routines, including daily huddles, KPI/KAI review, breakdown follow‑up, red‑tag closure, PM completion, and action tracking.
• Own RWP discipline by ensuring work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, documentation, and closeout processes.
• Partner with Operations to align priorities, approve maintenance work, coordinate equipment availability, and ensure right work is completed at the right time.
• Ensure maintenance resources are scheduled effectively, available hours are utilized productively, and schedule breakers minimized.
• Lead breakdown analysis and root‑cause problem solving to eliminate recurring losses and sustain corrective actions.
• Improve maintenance systems, preventive and predictive maintenance plans, equipment history, spare parts strategy, and SAP data integrity.
• Lead maintenance budget management, overtime control, repair cost management, contractor utilization, and capital planning support.
• Support project planning, equipment commissioning, early equipment management, asset retirement, and Management of Change requirements.
• Develop maintenance talent through coaching, performance management, skills assessment, succession planning, and structured training plans.
• Create an environment of mutual trust, respect, teamwork, engagement, accountability, and open communication across all shifts.
• Establish challenging, time‑bound targets and remove barriers through prioritization, collaboration, and alternative solutions.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Safety leadership

TPM

DMS

RWP

Root cause analysis

SAP PM

CMMS

Scheduling

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

CMMS

Job description

Owens Corning Fort Smith Plant is seeking a Maintenance Leader to develop and execute the site maintenance and reliability strategy, leading both salaried and hourly teams while partnering with Operations, Engineering, Sourcing, EHS, Quality, and Finance to meet plant objectives.

The successful candidate will advance TPM, DMS, and RWP disciplines, improve asset health, reduce downtime, and develop talent through coaching and structured training across shifts and outages.