Maintenance Lead, Industrial Maintenance, Operations Manager

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Reports to:

Tallmadge Plant Leader and will be a member of the Plant Leadership Team.

Span of Control:
The Tallmadge Plant has approximately 80 employees with two manufacturing lines. The Maintenance Leader will lead a team of approximately 12 hourly employees.

• Ensuring a safe, clean environmentally compliant work environment and building a culture where safety is always a priority.
• Developing risk assessments and safe plans of action for critical tasks
• Lead and support safety initiatives and processes to drive to zero incidents
• Training and developing employees to safely perform their jobs
• Participates in work area self‑inspections and accident investigations as well as recommends corrective actions to make the workplace safer
• Leads and supports safety initiatives and processes to drive towards zero recordable injuries

• Safety for an Injury Free Work Environment
• Determining Performance Objectives for the Plant & Maintenance Department
• Ensures maintenance strategy aligns with business strategy and operations plans
• Improvement plans to drive plant operating performance and equipment reliability
• People Strategy including talent development and training
• Maintains maintenance budget including labor, repairs, replacements
• Partners with relevant stakeholders to identify and address process improvement opportunities to eliminate waste, enhance safety, reduce cost, increase capacity and productivity and improve the end product

• Continuously improve safety and housekeeping
• Lead the Tallmadge Maintenance Department to best‑class safety and machine performance
• Ensure effective deployment of employee/labor relations practices
• Control/Reduce Operating Cost. Identify opportunities to enhance efficiencies, streamline processes and leverage resources to reduce cost.
• Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis on chronic maintenance issues or repairs
• Execute effective PM and work order programs using predictive and preventive technologies
  
  Develop and execute TPM & RWP plans as PM pillar leader
• Have a pulse in day‑to‑day operations to understand priorities
• Effectively collaborates and builds strong relationships with production and technical teams

• Builds and leads effective teams aligned on goals, increasing plant performance and working together to win.
• Builds an open, trusting environment that promotes listening, respect, winning, and fun.
• Communicates effectively throughout the plant and ensures people have the right information to win.
• Ensures people have the skills and capabilities to be successful.
• Holds people accountable and coaches to high standards and expected performance by providing candid feedback and driving appropriate actions for improvement.
• Attracts, develops and retains the very best talent.
• Partners with shift resources and other relevant stakeholders to ensure maintenance personnel are well trained and maintain required certifications.
• Successfully engages employees across the organization to participate and contribute to TPM through strategies such as communication and training.
• Regularly evaluates the strengths and development opportunities of the team and invests in growth and development to achieve sustained success.
• Effectively staffs the team by leveraging the appropriate mix of internal and external talent to satisfy both near‑term performance and long‑term succession needs.
• Monitors and enforces all plant and corporate policies and procedures.

• A minimum of 5 years of industrial manufacturing/maintenance assignments and experience.
• A Bachelor’s degree preferably in Engineering or Science.

• Able to engage and care for people starting with Safety.
• Experience leading Reliability Work Process and Total Productive Maintenance preferred.
• Excellent at listening to teams, following up on commitments, and building strong teams.
• Strong process, engineering and technical abilities.
• Business and financial acumen.
• Never satisfied with current state, always seeking to improve.

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.