Area Maintenance Manager

International Paper•Bogalusa, LA
•$125,000 - $135,000•Onsite

About The Position

This is an on-site, full-time, salaried (exempt) position responsible for supervising and developing multidisciplinary managers and their teams. The role involves coordinating maintenance work to ensure maximum equipment reliability, meet financial constraints, utilize trade skills, meet lead times, and employ necessary special equipment and repair procedures safely. The position also focuses on maintaining and improving the preventive/predictive maintenance system, providing excellent equipment care, and ensuring the safe, timely, and satisfactory completion of corrective maintenance work. The Area Maintenance Manager will critically address priorities, schedule jobs, participate in maintenance budgeting and strategic business planning, inspect repairs and modifications, observe test runs, and maintain relationships with direct reports while engaging in strategy planning and employee development through conflict resolution and change management.

Requirements

  • Bachelors (Engineering Preferred) or 5+ years of industrial, maintenance, or industrial maintenance experience.
  • Paper Mill experience and process knowledge.
  • Mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation system experience.
  • Demonstrated commitment and priority of safety
  • Ability to be flexible by being open to other ideas, valuing the strengths of others, shows compassion, and is a positive advocate of others.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities to meet both internal and external customer needs.
  • Exhibit effective problem-solving skills. 5 Whys or RCFA training or experience.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Pro-active in follow-up and resolution of issues with accountability of self and reports.
  • Makes good decisions in a timely manner based upon a mixture of analysis, experience, and judgment.
  • Proficient in Microsoft 365 Products, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, SharePoint, Teams, SAP, TRAKS, etc.

Nice To Haves

  • 5+ years of progressive experience in Engineering, Operations, Technical or Maintenance.
  • Previous leadership experience in Maintenance or Process Manager.
  • Maintenance job planning experience.
  • Understands complex safety systems (ZES, Confined Space, Hotwork, etc.)

Responsibilities

  • Supervise and develop multidisciplinary managers with team members
  • Coordinate maintenance work to safely ensure maximum reliability of all equipment, meet financial constraints, utilize trade skills, meet lead times, using the necessary special equipment and repair procedures.
  • Maintain and improve the preventive/predictive maintenance system, provide excellent equipment care, and follow-up to ensure safe, timely and satisfactory completion of corrective maintenance work.
  • Critically and objectively address priorities while scheduling jobs.
  • Participate in maintenance budgeting and department strategic business plan.
  • Inspect repairs/modifications and observe test runs to ensure safe, reliable operations.
  • Maintain relationships between reports while strategy planning.
  • Develops relationships of employees using tools such as conflict resolution and change management.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Life insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Short-term and Long-term Disability
  • 401(k)
  • Company-funded retirement contributions
  • Paid Time Off
  • Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement)
  • Student Loan Repayment Assistance
  • Voluntary Benefits including insurance for home, auto, vision and pets
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