Annual Outage Coordinator

International Paper•Selma, AL

2d•$108,200 - $158,700•Onsite

About The Position

The Annual Outage Coordinator will provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results. This role serves as the lead for all efforts around the planning of the Annual Outage, including conducting meetings and building the outage plan. Responsibilities include developing detailed, resource-loaded task level schedules, ensuring task readiness by verifying part availability, permits, and approved documentation before the outage begins, and guaranteeing that the schedule includes all safety protocols like Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Pre-Job Briefings, and Post-Maintenance Testing (PMT). The coordinator will lead monthly, weekly, and daily progress and alignment meetings across different departments to manage constraints and resolve scheduling conflicts. Additionally, the role involves analyzing data on uncompleted actions, tracking downtime costs, and developing critique reports to improve future cycle reliability. The position also supports training processes in alignment with GMTI, builds effective systems and materials such as maintenance procedures (SOP) and troubleshooting documents (TCC), coordinates within departments to optimize mill and area reliability/maintenance needs, and seeks out and implements best practices. The Annual Outage Coordinator supports the manufacturing work systems (MWS) process, executes daily maintenance work at a high productivity level, serves as a contractor coordinator (owner’s rep) as required, provides support for capital project development and implementation, and fulfills the weekend duty team leadership role for the Maintenance department.

Requirements

B.S. degree in engineering or related field, or comparable work experience
5-10 years’ experience in manufacturing, preferably in mechanical or electrical maintenance and/or paper industry operations.

Nice To Haves

Previous supervisory experience a plus.
Previous experience as an outage coordinator or maintenance planner a plus.

Responsibilities

Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results
Coordinate and serve as lead for all efforts around the planning of the Annual Outage and conduct meetings and build the outage plan.
Create detailed, resource-loaded task level schedules.
Ensure scopes are "ready to work" by verifying part availability, permits, and approved documentation before the outage begins.
Guarantee that the schedule includes all safety protocols like Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Pre-Job Briefings, and Post-Maintenance Testing (PMT).
Lead monthly, weekly and daily progress and alignment meetings across different departments to manage constraints and resolve scheduling conflicts.
Analyze data on uncompleted actions, track downtime costs, and develop critique reports to improve future cycle reliability.
Support training processes in alignment with GMTI to ensure a pool of highly skilled team members
Build effective systems and materials such as maintenance procedures (SOP), troubleshooting documents (TCC), and other training materials
Coordinate within departments and other business units to optimize mill and area reliability/maintenance needs
Seek out and implement best practices using teams, databases, vendors, and other technical resources
Support the manufacturing work systems (MWS) process to prioritize and plan daily work, routine outages, and annual outages including operational, maintenance, and contractor tasks
Successfully execute daily maintenance work at a high productivity level, including precision maintenance execution (ensure FLLs fulfill MWS role/responsibilities/audit, ensure consistent documentation of work, ensure consistent use of precision procedures, ensure use of Best Practices, control work execution)
Serve as a contractor coordinator (owner’s rep) as required
Provide support for capital project development and implementation
Fulfill weekend duty team leadership role for the Maintenance department