Maintenance Front Line Leader - Power & Recovery

Global Cellulose FibersFranklin, VA
Onsite

About The Position

This role involves managing mechanical maintenance technicians to provide quality maintenance repair services for mill area departments. The leader will direct the power and recovery mechanical maintenance team to achieve results in safety, engagement, and reliability. Key responsibilities include ensuring adherence to MWS principles, leading and developing direct reports, ensuring accurate use of CMMS databases, establishing scheduling and shutdown processes, coordinating work with planners and operations, managing costs, establishing clear expectations for work quality, and being responsible for availability related to shutdown management and failures. The role also requires coordinating and prioritizing maintenance activities with operations leaders, responding to after-hours downtime emergencies, establishing and executing precision work practices, supporting reliability systems, serving as a contract coordinator, participating in a weekend duty team rotation, ensuring quality and safety in maintenance work, managing on-site General Presence Contractors, and ensuring compliance with regulations and company policies.

Requirements

  • 2-5+ years of pulp and paper industrial maintenance experience required
  • Maintenance experience in a Pulp mill or Power plant environment.
  • Proficient with MS , MS Project, and SAP PM Applications

Nice To Haves

  • BS Degree in Engineering - Preferred
  • 5+ years of progressive experience managing maintenance systems - Preferred
  • At least 2 years’ experience managing/supervising people - Preferred
  • Completion of Onboarding or Franklin Setup Curriculum - Preferred
  • knowledge of CMMS is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Manages mechanical maintenance technicians to provide quality maintenance repair services for mill area departments
  • Lead and direct the power and recovery mechanical maintenance team to deliver results in the areas of safety, engagement, and reliability.
  • Ensures mill adherence to the principles of MWS
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop hourly direct reports
  • Ensures accurate and complete use of CMMS Databases
  • Ensures that a consistent scheduling and shutdown process is in place
  • Assists and coordinates area routine and outage work with planners and operations personnel
  • Manage costs to budget/input in the budgeting process
  • Establishes clear expectations for quality of work
  • Responsible for the portion of availability as it applies to shutdown management and failures
  • Coordinate and prioritize maintenance activities with operation leaders.
  • Responds and assists to after hours area downtime emergencies as required.
  • Establishes clear expectations and execution of precision work practices within shop
  • Commitment and ownership to precision maintenance and reliability for area.
  • Supports and drives area reliability systems (RCFA, PM/PdM, Precision Maintenance, etc.)
  • Lead and serve as a contract coordinator for repairs as required by the area.
  • Serve on a weekend duty team rotation for the maintenance.
  • Ensures a high degree of quality, safety, and discipline utilized in preparation and execution of maintenance work
  • Manages on-site General Presence Contractors as required
  • Ensures compliance with all applicable regulations, company policies and GCF’s Standard of Ethics and Code of Corporate Conduct.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Short-term and Long-term Disability
  • 401(k) and Company-funded retirement contributions
  • Paid Time Off
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