Area Manufacturing Excellence Leader - Power

Position Title:
Area Manufacturing Excellence Leader - Power

Pay Rate :
$108,200-$144,300
Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Category/Shift :
Salaried Full-Time

Physical Location :
601 County Rd 78
Selma, Al

The Job You Will Perform:

- Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results

- Identify and deliver sustainable cost savings through multiple deliberate and continuous improvement initiatives in alignment with the mills goal of year over year (YOY) cost reduction

- Train salaried and hourly employees to develop ME skills in the department and/or mill

- Work within the group to develop college hires (REACH) into ME Engineers

- Achieve ME certifications (White, Yellow, Green, Black, Master Black)

- Maintain strong relationships with other ME leaders as well as operating and maintenance department leaders

- Influence Business Unit operations teams to incorporate ME systems and processes to support sustainability of improvements as they are accomplished

- Support operations through field day/annual outage support and weekend duty assignments when needed

- Identify and implement Manufacturing Excellence best practices from across the mill, business, and company

- Support 5S program for the area and drive improvement projects, audit systems, and excellent results

- Provide support for cost reduction capital project development and implementation

- Implement systems to improve/sustain results

- Fulfill weekend duty team leadership role for assigned department

- Provide support for budgeting cycle targeted at delivering year over year savings

The Skills You Will Bring:

- Instill safety as a core value within the team and effectively communicate a shared vision for safety

- Quickly develop thorough knowledge of mill equipment and systems

- Utilize excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate to groups and individuals at all levels

- Approach positional responsibilities in an inclusive manner by engaging all team members in area, department, and mill

- Utilize the International Paper Change Process to drive change

- Work effectively alone or within a team

- Possess Manufacturing Excellence (ME) certification of yellow or green belt.

- Utilize strong organizational skills to handle multiple tasks effectively

- Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in operations, maintenance, and/or engineering in a paper manufacturing environment is required.

- Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical or electrical engineering is required; equivalent practical experience may be considered.

- IP ME certification of green or black belt is required; additional lean/six sigma certifications a plus.