Superintendent Power and Recovery

Domtar Products•Town of Rome, WI

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Domtar is seeking a Superintendent Power and Recovery for its Nekoosa, Wisconsin location. This full-time, permanent position is accountable for safety, environmental, quality, productivity, talent, and cost management in the power and recovery department. Reporting to the Pulp and Power Manager, the Superintendent collaborates with the team to identify actions that continually improve results and positively impact the culture.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, such as paper science engineering, chemical engineering, or mechanical engineering.
10 years of Kraft Mill experience.
At least 5 years of leadership experience.
Proven experience with reliability and continuous improvement principles and techniques.
Experience with unions.
Effective communication and people skills.
Strong leadership and decision-making skills.
Strong ability to build positive relationships.
Strong coaching and mentoring ability, leading by example.
Strong ability to drive change and improve performance over time.

Nice To Haves

Pulp, power, or recovery area experience.

Responsibilities

Manage and actively develop the team, support department and mill goals, and conduct succession and development planning for each team member.
Set departmental performance expectations, help the team meet established goals, drive performance, and hold the team accountable for results.
Coordinate activities within the department and across departments, maximizing opportunities related to scheduled and unscheduled downtime and production-rate changes.
Develop, implement, and follow safety, environmental, quality, productivity, talent, and cost goals and action plans with other mill leaders.
Promote awareness of Nekoosa Mission, Vision, and Playbook elements through company correspondence, meetings, and training programs.
Ensure product quality meets or exceeds customer expectations through consistent use of quality systems, operator training, and auditing.
Maintain departmental reliability through effective planning and scheduling, essential care, and condition monitoring.
Support the team in evaluating and troubleshooting departmental problems, determining root causes, and implementing actions to eliminate issues.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement to improve departmental safety, quality, productivity, and cost.
Provide rotating weekend and weeknight on-call coverage for the Pulp unit.