Supply Chain Performance Expert

As a Supply Chain Performance Expert specializing in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), your mission is to challenge, improve, and elevate operational performance across a multi-country or regional scope.

You will drive the deployment, standardization, and sustainability of TPM practices as a core element of the Schneider Performance System (SPS), boosting equipment reliability, building workforce capability, improving industrial cost performance, and strengthening end-to-end supply chain efficiency.

This role is both strategic and hands-on, requiring strong technical expertise, the ability to coach and influence across multiple levels, and a passion for continuous improvement.

Key mission elements include:


* Leading the TPM program rollout across regional sites.


* Building organizational capability through training, coaching, and on-the-gemba support.


* Designing and deploying standards and best practices that enable consistency and scalability.


* Challenging performance baselines and improvement plans to secure measurable business results.


* Leveraging Smart & Digital tools to accelerate TPM execution and supply chain performance.

Areas of expertise include: TPM, SPS, process design, equipment performance, ergonomics, continuous improvement, simulation tools, cost analysis, capacity analysis, and industrial performance.
Key Responsibilities


* Lead the deployment of the TPM Program across multiple manufacturing sites, ensuring alignment with SPS and regional strategic priorities.


* Standardize TPM methodologies, tools, and practices to ensure repeatable, consistent, and sustainable results.


* Develop model TPM plants and enable progressive scaling across the region.


* Build organizational capability by training, coaching, and certifying practitioners, associates, and subject-matter experts in TPM.


* Act as a regional challenger for performance, governance, priorities, and execution discipline of TPM pillars (People, Machine, Cost).


* Promote adoption of digital solutions, maintenance systems, and performance analytics to accelerate TPM maturity.


* Formalize and deploy benchmarks, standards, and best practices across sites.


* Ensure TPM contributes directly to improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People development.

Main ActivitiesPerformance & Opportunity Assessment


* Identify and quantify improvement opportunities in maintenance performance (OEE), workforce (Headcount), and cost (Spend).


* Lead TPM or Continuous Improvement (CI) events when skills are missing or when additional expertise is required.


* Conduct deep dives on equipment losses, maintenance systems, skill gaps, and operational bottlenecks across the end-to-end value stream.

TPM Implementation & Coaching


* Facilitate and support TPM pillar activities (Autonomous Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Kobetsu Kaizen).


* Lead coaching sessions, audits, and maturity assessme...