Location: Greater Toronto Area (Hybrid / Client Sites)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Travel: Up to 75% within Ontario and North America, as required

About Adonis Partners

At Adonis Partners, we exist to help our clients become more profitable — and their people more capable. We’re not here to sell band-aids. We show up to do the real work, shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, committed to creating lasting, measurable impact.

We are a fast-growing business excellence consultancy of 60 professionals across North America, serving over 30 clients annually.

We combine data-driven insights, deep industry experience, and lived leadership to cut through complexity and deliver results. Our team is built on a foundation of openness, humility, and relentless value creation. That’s how we’ve earned trust — and why clients call us back.

We partner most often with companies in:

· Food & Beverage Manufacturing

· Healthcare and Life Sciences

· Packaging

· Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain

Our clients are typically upper mid-market ($200M to $2B in revenue), including PE-backed companies undergoing operational transformation. Engagements range from 3–12 months, often involving immersive, on-site collaboration.

Our Values (How We Work)

· Genuine, Transparent & Fair – We tell the truth, even when it’s hard.

· Relentless in Creating Value – We own the outcome, no matter the obstacles.

· Always Getting Better – We seek feedback and grow through experience.

· Move Fast – We take action with urgency and accountability.

· Go the Extra Mile – We roll up our sleeves and do what it takes.

We live a service philosophy based on vulnerability, humility, and radical honesty. It’s not always comfortable, but it builds the kind of trust that lasts.

Position Summary

As the TPM Practice Leader, you will lead and grow Adonis Partners’ Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) practice while also serving as a senior client-facing practitioner. You will lead a team of TPM practitioners, set the practice’s standards and delivery approach, coach and develop practitioners, and ensure high-quality outcomes across client engagements.

This is a consulting leadership role that combines practice leadership, people leadership, client engagement, and hands-on delivery. You will work directly with executive leadership, plant management, maintenance and operations teams, and frontline employees to assess current performance, develop TPM roadmaps, lead implementation, build client capability, and deliver measurable operational and financial results.

Key Responsibilities

TPM Practice Leadership

· Own the development and evolution of Adonis Partners’ TPM practice, including methodologies, tools, standards, and delivery playbooks.

· Establish consistent TPM approaches, assessment frameworks, implementation roadmaps, and deliverables across client engagements. aligned with JIPM (Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance) principles and practices.

· Set quality standards for TPM consulting delivery and ensure practitioners apply the practice methodology effectively.

· Build the TPM practice’s capabilities, intellectual property, training materials, case studies, and reusable client solutions.

· Partner with company leadership on practice strategy, resource planning, pipeline development, and growth opportunities.

Team & Practitioner Leadership

· Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of TPM practitioners and consultants.

· Provide practitioners with direction, coaching, tools, and subject-matter support throughout client engagements.

· Assess practitioner capabilities and create development plans to strengthen technical, consulting, facilitation, and leadership skills.

· Review engagement plans, deliverables, and client outputs to maintain a high standard of quality.

· Support staffing and resource allocation across TPM engagements based on client needs and practitioner capabilities.

· Create a culture of knowledge sharing, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within the TPM practice.

Client Engagement & Consulting Delivery





· Lead or oversee TPM workstreams within client transformation engagements, from assessment and roadmap development through implementation and sustainment.

· Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors, plant leaders, operations leaders, maintenance leaders, and frontline teams.

· Conduct TPM maturity assessments, equipment and reliability assessments, and current-state diagnostics.

· Develop practical TPM implementation roadmaps aligned to client business objectives and transformation priorities.

· Facilitate leadership workshops, operator and maintenance team sessions, Kaizen events, and capability-building activities.

· Coach client teams to build internal ownership and sustain TPM systems after the consulting engagement.

· Present findings, recommendations, progress, and results to senior client stakeholders.

TPM & Operational Excellence

· Lead implementation of TPM pillars, including Autonomous Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, Focused Improvement, and related reliability practices.

· Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), equipment reliability, uptime, maintenance performance, and production stability.

· Develop and strengthen Daily Management, performance management, visual management, and problem-solving systems that support TPM.

· Identify and quantify operational and financial improvement opportunities and track benefits realization.

· Use data and performance metrics to identify losses, prioritize improvement opportunities, and demonstrate results.

· Integrate TPM with broader Lean, Operational Excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Business Development & Practice Growth

· Support business development by identifying TPM and reliability opportunities within existing and prospective client organizations.

· Participate in client discovery meetings, proposals, scopes of work, and solution development.

· Build relationships with prospective clients and contribute TPM subject-matter expertise to sales conversations.

· Develop thought leadership, client-facing content, and internal capability-building materials that strengthen the TPM practice.

Required TPM / JIPM Experience

· Understanding and improvement of the end-to-end Work Order Process, from work identification and prioritization through planning, execution, closure, and analysis.

· Experience applying Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles to improve equipment reliability and maintenance strategies.

· Use of Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) to analyze equipment reliability and identify improvement opportunities.

· ABC Asset Classification to prioritize equipment and maintenance strategies based on business and operational criticality.

· Use of a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) to manage maintenance activities, equipment history, work orders, PMs, and performance data.

· Systematic identification and elimination of machine abnormalities, defects, deterioration, and sources of contamination.

· Deep cleaning as part of TPM restoration, inspection, and equipment condition improvement activities.

· Restoring machines to basic conditions and establishing standards to maintain equipment conditions.

· Planned Maintenance, including developing, executing, and improving preventive maintenance (PM) activities.

· Autonomous Maintenance (AM), including operator involvement in basic equipment care and condition management.

· Hands-on experience implementing and coaching JIPM-aligned TPM practices in manufacturing environments.

· Ability to train others in Autonomous Maintenance, Planned Maintenance and other pillars of TPM.

Qualifications

Required

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.

· 10+ years of experience leading TPM,



maintenance excellence, reliability, Lean Manufacturing, or Operational Excellence initiatives.

· 5+ years of consulting, client-facing, or transformation leadership experience, preferably in manufacturing environments.

· Proven experience leading TPM implementation and operational transformation programs, with hands-on experience applying JIPM (Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance) TPM methodology and principles in manufacturing environments.

· Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, or managing practitioners, consultants, engineers, or cross-functional improvement teams.

· Strong knowledge of TPM principles, pillars, reliability improvement, OEE, Autonomous Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, and loss elimination. Familiarity with JIPM TPM principles, methodology, and assessment frameworks is preferred.

· Strong consulting, facilitation, stakeholder management, presentation, and executive communication skills.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to connect operational improvements to financial results.

· Ability to travel to client locations across Ontario and throughout North America.

Preferred

· Experience building or leading a consulting practice, service line, or Center of Excellence.

· Experience developing consulting methodologies, training programs, playbooks, and practitioner capability frameworks. Experience with JIPM-based TPM deployment, certification, or award frameworks is an asset.

· Experience working with private-equity-backed or upper mid-market manufacturing organizations.

· Experience with Lean transformation, Lean Management Systems, Daily Management, and broader Business Excellence programs.

Preferred Certifications

· Certified TPM Practitioner / JIPM-aligned TPM experience

· Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP)

· Project Management Professional (PMP) (an asset)

Desired Personal Attributes

· Strong executive presence with the humility to work effectively at every organizational level.

· Exceptional coach, facilitator, and people leader.

· Client-focused consultant who builds trust quickly and follows through on commitments.

· Results-oriented with a strong continuous improvement mindset.

· Self-motivated, adaptable, and comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-trust environments.

· Able to balance strategic practice leadership with hands-on client delivery.

· Strong commercial awareness and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Our Commitment to You

· Join a collaborative, entrepreneurial consulting firm where your expertise makes a measurable difference.

· Market-competitive salary and performance-based bonus opportunities.

· An honest and transparent culture free from corporate politics.

· Lead high-impact transformation projects with leading organizations.

· Grow and shape a strategic consulting practice with meaningful leadership responsibility.

· Opportunities to develop practitioners and expand your consulting leadership career.

· A culture that cares deeply for the well-being of our people, clients, partners, and community.

Ideal Candidates Will…

· Embrace transparency and humility.

· Be willing to ask hard questions and face tough truths.

· Thrive in fast-paced, high-trust consulting environments.

· Enjoy developing people and building strong practitioner teams.

· Be energized by solving complex client problems and delivering measurable results.

· Desire to help build something meaningful and make a positive impact on clients, people, and society.

If that sounds like you — let’s talk.

Application Requirements

Interested candidates should submit

· Resume

· Cover Letter

· Summary of TPM projects led

Only candidates legally authorized to work in Canada and based in the Greater Toronto Area will be considered. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Pay: $200,000.00-$275,000.00 per year

Licence/Certification

- TPM / JIPM (preferred)

Location:
- Toronto, ON (preferred)

Willingness to travel:
- 75% (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON

📌 TPM Practice Leader (Toronto)
🏢 Adonis Partners
📍 Toronto