Power & Utilities Shift Foreman

New-Indy Containerboard • Catawba, SC

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Manage employees in the Power & Recovery areas to ensure safe and efficient manufacturing processes. This role involves managing hourly employees and Team Leaders to ensure accurate time & attendance, effective crew scheduling, efficient employee development, and compliance to all HR policies in a union environment. The Shift Supervisor is responsible for ensuring safety & environmental compliance, product quality, and production targets are met. They will also improve equipment reliability and manage communication among employees, peers, and supervisors.

Requirements

• Four-year engineering degree or equivalent operational experience in a Power & Recovery environment.
• Solid understanding of the operation of an integrated pulp & paper mill.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in a power & recovery environment.
• Ability to build and sustain trust and work collaboratively across functions.
• Demonstrated leadership and supervisory experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work a 12-hour rotating shift schedule.
• Ability to balance priorities to meet short and long-term goals.
• Efficient in use of Office productivity products and enterprise planning systems.
• Possess an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit.

Responsibilities

• Manage hourly employees and Team Leaders to ensure accurate time & attendance, effective crew scheduling, efficient employee development, and compliance to all HR policies in a union environment.
• Ensure safety & environmental compliance for areas of responsibility through the use of: safety training, safety permitting, safety & environmental one-on-one meetings, and management of safety & environmental policies.
• Ensure product quality in areas of responsibility through use of ISO and quality targets.
• Ensure production targets are met by: leading process troubleshooting, ensuring adherence to SOPs & KPIs, and ensuring effective housekeeping.
• Improve equipment reliability by ensuring effective operator rounds, efficient management of maintenance resources, facilitating entry of work requests, and leading crews during equipment outages.
• Manage communication among employees, peers, and supervisors though the use of shift turnover meetings, expectation setting, regular feedback & coaching, incident investigations, and reporting of variances.
• Develop the hourly organization to ensure long and short term goals and objectives are met.

What This Job Offers

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