Maintenance Process Excellence Manager

GAF; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Maintenance Excellence Manager, where you will drive strategic improvements in maintenance processes across various sites. This dynamic role involves collaborating with site managers and corporate teams to enhance work management procedures and leverage technology for efficiency. You will be instrumental in developing a roadmap for maintenance excellence, supporting asset care programs, and ensuring alignment with corporate initiatives. With a focus on teamwork and continuous improvement, this position offers the chance to make a significant impact while working remotely and traveling as needed to support plant operations.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K Plan with Employer Match

Tuition Reimbursement

Wellness Program

Free Financial Coaching

Work-Life Balance Programs

Employee Resource Groups

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Industrial or Manufacturing Maintenance Management.
• Experience in enhancing CMMS for efficient technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement world-class maintenance procedures.
• Conduct plant-level assessments for maintenance work management.

Skills

Maintenance Management

Project Management

CMMS Functionality

Mechanical Assembly

Electrical Assembly

Communication Skills

Continuous Improvement Mindset

Education

Associate’s Degree in Technical, Engineering, or Maintenance Field

Tools

CMMS Systems

Job description

At GAF, we cover more than buildings. We cover each other. No matter what role, tenure, or track, under this roof you are empowered to be there for your teammates, your customers, and especially your community. Under this roof, we don’t back down from hard work– we support one another in pursuit of something bigger. We define the future while leading the present. And under this roof, we own our opportunities. Becoming the market leader only happens when everyone feels they have the opportunity, and the support, to thrive. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most.

Team Summary
The Maintenance Excellence Manager is a key member of the Corporate Reliability & Maintenance team and works closely with corporate peers focusing on Reliability Engineering, Materials Management, and Training pillars. This role will report to the Sr. Director of Operations Maintenance Transformation.

Job Summary
This collaborative role develops a strategic plan to implement world-class procedures, deploy the adoption of technology, and improve Maintenance Work Management Processes. This is a dynamic role, working with Residential and Commercial site Maintenance Managers and Supervisors, Planners/Schedulers, and Crafts personnel in assessing the current state of the work management execution, identifying specific improvement initiatives, and providing resources and leadership to solve at the site-level. This role works closely with Corporate and site-level MRO inventory leads to implement effective MRO consumption methods to increase efficiencies and improve MRO data transactions. This role works with GAF Business Systems to enhance the technical platforms (CMMS) to drive efficiency at the sites, as well as to provide robust integrations and configurations to further improve efficiency. This role works with site Reliability Engineers to support RCFA activities as needed, and to execute PM and PdM programs developed for asset care programs. This is a remote-based position with travel requirements to support plant needs and projects. This role also is key to implementing processes and standards for GAF outage/shutdown preparedness, coordination, execution, and close out.

Essential Duties

• Strategy Development and Tactical Deployment
• Perform plant-level assessments to identify current state measured against best practices in all areas of maintenance work management.
• Development of a prioritized roadmap for implementation of improvement plan, aligned with overall R&M vision and uniform processes across all sites.
• Determines change readiness and identifies needed resources both short-term and long-term to execute the improvement plan.
• Works directly with the site Planners/Schedulers/Supervisors and can tailor site-specific needs on a case-by-case basis.
• Works with supporting organizations on a unified business approach for the GAF network.
• Chairs and facilitates periodic performance dialogues with supporting KPIs both upward and downward in the organization.
• Participates and partners in all Maintenance performance discussions to ensure alignment and timing of projects with overall maintenance business initiatives.
• Performs cost analysis to optimize GAF craft labor efficiencies, as well as utilization of outside contractors.
• Supports development of Asset Bills of Materials and “Where Used” analysis.

Qualifications Required

• Associate’s Degree Technical, Engineering, or Maintenance Field Required
• Minimum of 5 years Industrial or Manufacturing Maintenance Management, Planning, or Project Management.
• Maint Work Identification: WO Creation, Review, Backlog control, and Prioritization, WO Planning, WO Scheduling, WO Execution and Documentation, WO Closure
• Demonstrated history of improving maintenance organizational processes.
• Must have extensive experience in modifying/enriching CMMS functionality to enable a user-friendly, and efficient technical solution.
• Must have technical aptitude with mechanical and electrical assemblies.

Qualifications Preferred

• Expert with CMMS systems, especially Job Planning, Kitting, and Scheduling applications.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage craftsmen’s feedback communication to institutionalize a robust job plan library through WO review and audit.
• Strong communication skills that are adaptable to all levels of an organization.
• Strong continuous improvement mindset.

Physical Demands

• Stationary Position - Frequently
• Move/Traverse - Frequently
• Stationary Position/Seated - Frequently
• Transport/Lifting - Occasionally
• Transport/Carrying - Occasionally
• Exerting Force/Pushing - Occasionally
• Exerting Force/Pulling - Occasionally
• Ascend/Descend - Occasionally
• Balancing - Occasionally
• Position Self/Stooping - Occasionally
• Position Self/Kneeling - Occasionally
• Position Self/Crouching - Occasionally
• Position Self/Crawling - Occasionally
• Reaching - Frequently
• Handling - Frequently
• Grasping - Frequently
• Feeling - Frequently
• Communicate/Talking - Frequently
• Communicate/Hearing - Frequently
• Repetitive Motions - Occasionally
• Coordination - Occasionally

Working Conditions

• Extreme cold - Occasionally
• Extreme heat - Occasionally
• Humid - Occasionally
• Wet - Occasionally
• Noise - Occasionally
• Hazards - Occasionally
• Temperature Change - Occasionally
• Vibration - Rarely

Dimensions
Number of Indirect Reports: 0
Number of Direct Reports: 0
Travel Requirements: 50%

Consideration will be given based on geography, candidate experience, and qualifications. Annual Salary Range: 126,000-161,000.

How We Protect What Matters Most:
1. We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
2. Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood.
3. Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions.
4. Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence.
5. Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program.
6. We put diversity and inclusion into action with our Employee Resource Groups, which unite employees based on common perspectives, identities, demographic factors, or out of a desire to be an ally.

GAF complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR Services at 833-HR-XPERT.

We believe our employees are our greatest resource. We offer competitive salary, benefits, 401k, and vacation packages for all full-time permanent positions. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and GAF, Standard Logistics, SGI, and Siplast are proud to be affirmative action employers. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If applying for positions in the U.S., must be eligible to work in the U.S. without need for employer sponsored visa (work permit).