Productive Maintenance Change Leader/TPM Manager
Listed on 2026-01-14
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Manufacturing / Production
Operations Engineer, Quality Engineering, Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma, Production Manager
Location: Garyville
Total Productive Maintenance Manager (TPM)
In this vital manufacturing role, you will lead Ecolab's Production System's highly visible Total Productive Maintenance transformation as we drive a cultural shift in how we continuously improve. As the TPM Manager for our Garyville, LA site expects to implement rapid change; be a hands‑on team builder able to recognize others' resistance to change and lead individuals and teams through the change process.
Gain recognition as you apply your competence in TPM, combined with on‑job process expertise and stakeholder input to identify, prioritize and manage multiple improvement projects.
This is the perfect job if you are self‑motivated, with a bias for action, a sense of urgency, and tendency to quickly take personal responsibility to drive improvements and culture shifts in manufacturing excellence.
Safety, Health and Environmental (SH&E)- Improve plantsafetythrough continuous improvement.
- Make improvements to the safety culture through TPM projects and interface with the Safety Pillar.
- Promote safety through all department functions.
- Participate in plant safety meetings, worksite inspections, SH&E audits & assessments, and other elements of the safety process.
- Conduct BBS observations to reinforce safe behaviors and correct at-risk behaviors within in the organization.
- Ensure incidents, accidents, and upset conditions are appropriately identified, communicated, managed, and investigated to ensure compliance with external and internal requirements.
- Implement Ecolab's Production System's highly visible TPM Strategy within the plant using methodology aligned with Global framework and other capabilities, assume responsibility for extensive continued deployment, with focus of systems sustainability.
- Oversee external consultant activity on‑site, as needed, but with objective of self‑leadership independence and site autonomy.
- Implement rapid change.
- Be a hands‑on team builder able to recognize change management challenges and lead individuals and teams through the change process.
- Identify, prioritize, and manage multiple improvement projects.
- Spend >50% of the day walking the plant working closely with employees and teams.
- Coordinate area projects with site 5s leader and Kaizen/lean events with facilitators.
- Track all TPM and savings projects in the Project Management Tool (Power Steering) when appropriate.
- Complete the Self‑Assessment exercise according to the required framework as they guide the on‑going TPM progress according to the Global & Regional Master plans.
- Complete regular Plant Health Checks to ensure the plant continues to operate to TPM governance model.
- Support the Plant Manager in preparation of Plant related TPM audits.
- Support and drive implementation of Loss Analysis and TPM.
- Use Loss Analysis to identify the biggest opportunities using TPM methodology to systemically identify and minimize our major losses.
- Drive savings through loss analysis and deliver realistic savings opportunities, becoming the key driver to supply chain excellence and meet our savings goals.
- Maintain a cost reduction program by continuously evaluating operating methods and procedures and looking for more cost effective routes to accomplish results.
- Drive and develop improvement teams to support the Plant Manager.
- Promote the developing culture through TPM.
- Deliver TPM training aligned with Global TPM Strategy and Road Map.
- Represent site in Reaction Plant network TPM leadership group.
- Support manufacturing skills models to develop a Loss Analysis culture.
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