Director - Maintenance Excellence

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The Director, Maintenance Excellence is responsible for establishing and deploying Pregis' enterprise maintenance, reliability, and asset management strategy across a multi-site manufacturing network. As a leader within the Operations Center of Excellence, this role will define the vision, standards, and roadmap that improve equipment reliability, increase uptime, reduce maintenance costs, and support long-term business growth.

This role leads through influence, partnering closely with Operations Directors, Plant Managers, Maintenance Managers, and Engineering, teams to drive consistent maintenance practices and operational excellence across the network.

A critical responsibility of this role is to own and lead Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) excellence across Pregis, ensuring TPM becomes a foundational capability of the Pregis Production System and is consistently deployed across all manufacturing operations.

• Develop and execute the enterprise Maintenance and Reliability strategy aligned with Pregis growth and operational objectives.
• Establish network-wide maintenance standards, reliability practices, asset management processes, and KPIs.
• Create multi-year roadmaps focused on reliability, predictive maintenance, maintenance productivity, and asset lifecycle management.
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for maintenance and reliability excellence.

• Own and drive the TPM strategy across the manufacturing network.
• Establish TPM standards, governance, assessments, training, and maturity models.
• Partner with Operations leaders to embed TPM principles into daily management systems and the Pregis Production System (PPS).
• Lead efforts to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), reduce downtime, and increase asset utilization.
• Identify, standardize, and deploy best practices across manufacturing locations.

• Improve equipment uptime, reliability, and maintenance effectiveness across the network.
• Drive predictive, preventive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.
• Lead root cause analysis and reliability improvement initiatives for critical assets.
• Develop strategies to optimize spare parts inventory, maintenance planning, and asset lifecycle management.

• Develop the maintenance technology roadmap, including CMMS optimization, predictive analytics, and digital maintenance solutions.
• Support major capital investments, equipment upgrades, and manufacturing modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies that improve reliability, maintenance efficiency, and operational performance.

• Partner with Operations Directors, Plant Managers, Maintenance Managers, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and EHS teams.
• Lead through influence to drive adoption of standards and best practices.
• Build organizational capability through maintenance training, coaching, and development programs.
• Ensure maintenance initiatives deliver measurable operational and financial impact.

• Improved equipment uptime and OEE
• Reduced unplanned downtime and equipment failures
• Increased TPM maturity across the network
• Improved preventive and predictive maintenance compliance
• Reduced maintenance costs and spare parts spend
• Increased maintenance productivity and technical capability
• Standardized maintenance practices across all facilities
• Improved asset reliability and lifecycle performance
• Sustainable EBITDA improvement through operational excellence

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, or related technical discipline, required.
• 15+ years of progressive…