First Line Leader- Finished Products

International Paper • Mansfield, LA

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Finished Products First Line Leader is responsible for the management, coordination, and direction of a crew in the Finished Products department. This role involves leading and managing safety, people, operations, and communication within the department, with a focus on continuous improvement and meeting production and quality goals.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of the Finished Products Area and a thorough knowledge of all Finished Products Department processes.
• Key understandings of the critical parameters that impact safety, environmental, costs, quality, and customers.
• Clear ability to manage and coordinate multiple tasks.
• Understanding of team concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.
• Established skill to execute work based on standards and procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to enforce accountability.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience on the paper machine at the Group II – Operator level or higher OR an engineering degree and 2 years of relevant experience.
• Member in good standing to be considered for this position.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage safety, ensuring that all safety and housekeeping goals are accomplished.
• Support the EHS coordinators and Safety Captains, drive safety with the crew, and assist in conducting incident investigations, safety observations, and inspections.
• Responsible for making sure that all members understand what is expected of them, conducting one-to-ones, and holding members accountable for those expectations.
• Manage daily shift operations with a focus on continuous improvement, support routine and annual outages and responsible for meeting and exceeding established production and quality goals.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively interact with all operating departments and all levels of mill management and ensure the timely and accurate communication of information to and from all levels.
• Demonstrate good listening and communication skills.
• Attend and participate in all FLL meetings
• Vacation coverage for FLL
• Provide continuous Improvement efforts
• Engagement Reliability Efforts
• Outage Execution
• Weekend Duty
• Training/Onboarding new FLL’s
• Capital Projects/IPCC Audit and Adherence for all departmental processes
• Complete the FLL Proficient curriculum within two years of assignment.
• Work Overtime where necessary to accommodate departmental needs including, but not limited to, support of 8 Week Scheduled Outages and Annual Outage Execution

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level