Mill Reliability Leader

International Paper•Redwood, MS

3d•$118,400 - $173,600•Onsite

About The Position

The Mill Reliability Leader is the lead reliability position in the facility and will manage the Reliability organization and efforts across the entire Mill. The Mill Reliability Leader is responsible for developing a team of highly skilled reliability engineers, predictive maintenance technicians, HVAC technicians and lubrication technicians. The Reliability team is responsible for successfully executing all reliability elements, including RCFA process, predicting and preventing failures, PM/PdM techniques and equipment care, precision maintenance, lubrication excellence, and world class MWS processes. The Mill Reliability Leader tracks key reliability metrics and communicates to the entire mill organization the fundamental systems and behaviors that must be in place to drive continuous improvement in mill results. This position is a key role in the Maintenance & Engineering leadership team, and reports to the Maintenance & Engineering Manager.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering is preferred
10+ years of operations, maintenance, and/or engineering experience in a paper-manufacturing environment.
Qualified candidates have a high level of understanding of reliability principles, are knowledgeable in CMMS systems, competent in using Lean tools such as RCFA.
Good communication skills (written and verbal) are required.

Responsibilities

All aspects of equipment care, predictive maintenance
Reduce unscheduled downtime to world class levels, increase equipment life
Develop and maintain equipment criticalities used in the operating areas
Maintain strong relationships with the Maintenance and Operations Business Unit managers, Area managers, and First Line Leaders, and challenge the organization to continuously improve reliability systems and behaviors
RCFA system owner for equipment failures and implementing corrective actions
Mill-wide PCF Champion, identify and eliminate chronic problems
Equipment care development leader, with heavy influence on inspectors’ activities, routes, and ability to identify early failure indicators using proven techniques
Development of Reliability professionals
Influence operations to assure proper operation of equipment, basic care, and early identification of problems
Introduce new reliability technologies and predictive techniques
Seek out best practices across the corporation and implement locally
Maintain Reliability Action Plan
Weekend Duty assignment
All other duties as assigned