Multiple Maven in one project question

I have a project with two Maven projects where one depends on the other and that is defined in the pom.xml.  No matter what I seem to do I can't seem to get the application to use the jar that I've built and installed in my local maven repository instead of using the module as defined in Intellij.  Is there a way I can manage the dependancies for both modules with Maven but treat them as completely separate modules within the same project?