Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC) - Power

International Paper•Valliant, OK

9h•$93,400 - $124,500•Onsite

About The Position

The ECR area includes three primary boilers for steam generation (Recovery, Power, Bark), Turbine Generator, Evaporators, Recaust Plant, and wastewater treatment system supporting the production of 5,000+ tons per day of containerboard with 3 paper machines, 3 continuous digesters, and 3 secondary fiber plants. The Valliant Mill currently operates with 300 mill employees and 150 contract maintenance employees in a results-oriented environment. The objective of this position is to reduce costs and increase productivity by continuously improving efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance work execution through work prioritization, planning, scheduling, and improvement of the MWS process in a sustainable manner.

Requirements

Prefer an engineer with 3+ years’ experience in the paper industry. Non-degreed candidates may be acceptable with experience and demonstrated abilities that fit the role.
The ideal candidate would have at least 3 years of maintenance/engineering or production experience in a manufacturing environment.
Must have excellent computer skills and be able to master Microsoft Project, SAP-PM and Excel.
Demonstrated leadership skills combined with technical knowledge and operations experience in pulp and paper manufacturing processes.
Strong interpersonal and communications skills (written and oral) with proven ability to coach, educate and motivate.
Understanding and commitment to the concepts of high-performance work systems and change management.
Strong work ethic
Active participation in safety, problem solving and other team activities.

Responsibilities

Assure a safe and highly motivated workforce by demonstrating leadership in safety and engagement; exhibiting safety leadership and encouraging safety engagement.
Champion Area Manufacturing Work System (MWS) execution, deliberate improvement efforts, and standardization.
Coordinate tasks between maintenance and operations to ensure proper planning, scheduling, and execution.
Facilitate MWS meetings and ensure the daily MWS agenda is strictly followed.
Leads weekly MWS scheduling meeting to review and prioritize work requests for routine and shutdown work.
Improve maintenance efficiency by communicating and posting next week’s schedule before end of current week, buffering break-in work, and prioritizing planning and scheduling priorities.
Coordinate process preparation for maintenance to ensure efficient use of resources. This includes system shutdown, isolation, preparation (area clean-up), system LOTOs, and work permitting.
Ensure all lockouts (before use) are verified within the last year by knowledgeable operators. Become the area CONFORMiT champion and work with operators to ensure lockout accuracy.
Improve mill reliability through the disciplined application of the MWS principles with a major focus not only on overall planning and scheduling quality but also the recording of work history. This includes participation in failure analysis events, datamining for chronic failures, and a drive for results on preventable chronic failures.
Assist in managing the business unit area maintenance budget by managing overtime and maintenance spending.
Ensure maintenance resources are efficiently utilized
Properly maintain and prioritize business unit area backlogs.
Assist the Annual Outage Coordinator with planning efforts for major annual outages.
Assist Annual Outage Coordinator with outage MS Project schedule(s) for the business unit area and ensure outage execution meets the planned schedule.
Help Annual Outage Coordinator ensure all outage planning tasks follow the T-minus corporate outage planning standard including completion of post outage activities such as critiques.
Assist in area physical assessment improvements.
Ensure maintenance and operating areas are maintained to 5S standards.
Updates the mill on all required monthly GMS report outs such as RCFA Status, PM Compliance