Maintenance Leader - Mechanical
International Paper
- Columbus, MS
- $83,900-111,800 per year
- Contract
- Full-time
- Be a role model and champion for an injury-free work place and promote safety and excellence in all areas of influence.
- Responsible for leading process safety improvements through personal commitment and other safety programs.
- Manage daily area maintenance decisions, to include staffing, work prioritization and spending within our Pulp and Fiberline operations.
- Responsible for planning, scheduling, and execution of mechanical maintenance in the area, including quarterly outages, and annual outage.
- Lead a ten-person team of mechanical technicians to execute routine and break-in maintenance work.
- Point of contact for coordinating and executing unscheduled maintenance work.
- Supervise contractors in area when work load exceeds team's capabilities.
- Responsible for gaining commitment and motivating employees toward a common goal in a non-union team environment.
- Enables the mechanical crew to work safely and efficiently through training, monitoring, and continuous coaching and mentoring.
- Ensure effective communication between the maintenance team and other mill teams.
- Responsible for work execution within department and the overall effectiveness of the notification and work order system.
- Responsible for effective participation with the MWS team, and creates daily/weekly schedule and executes priority of work.
- Manage all work for area of responsibility including contract work, ensure proper staffing, communicate job progress, and ensure proper follow up until successful completion.
- Lead problem solving, troubleshoot issues, and initiate the acquisition of additional resources as appropriate.
- Responsible for conducting performance reviews and effective one to ones with team members.
- Lead the mill's Growth and Development System for the area to ensure proper skill development for individual and team.
- Effectively and efficiently manages crew work hours through Work Brain.
- Promotes reliability efforts, precision maintenance practices and standards, and root cause analysis.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent work experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Prefer a minimum of five (5) years leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience in the pulp and paper industry is preferred.
- Experience leading troubleshooting and maintenance activities in a manufacturing environment.
- Detailed knowledge of industrial safety procedures and regulations.
- Ability to lead in a high-performance team environment and get work done through others.
- Ability to collaborate with peers and work well work others.
- Strong computer skills including proficiency with SAP and all Microsoft Office applications.
- Good decision-making, judgement and outstanding interpersonal skills are required.
- High degree of organizational skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skill.
- Ability to interpret maintenance manuals, functional specifications and engineering drawings.
- Working knowledge of equipment, trades skills, work execution, and reporting.
- This position requires working extended hours often and with short notice, a strong sense of ownership and urgency, motivation and innovation, clearly visible leadership skills.
- Proficient in Work Brain and time entry.
- Leadership Opportunities
- Promotional Opportunities