Area Maintenance Manager
Pay Rate: $121,300–$148,300. Multiple factors, including individual experience, skills, and abilities, will determine placement within the range.
Schedule: Salaried, Full-Time
About the Role
The Area Maintenance Manager is responsible for achieving business results in their area, provides leadership to all facets of the production process, and helps build and support a high-performance work system. Champions the one-to-one process. The individual must support and exemplify the vision and organizational values of Global Cellulose Fiber, Flint River Mill. Qualified applicants will have the ability to work on concrete and periodically move equipment/tools weighing up to 50 lbs.
- Primary responsibility for leading a designated unit(s), which includes Product, Utilities, or Fiberline (Woodyard and Pulping).
- Leads efforts in key focus areas including safety, production and cost efficiencies, reliability, team member engagement, and environmental, to achieve or exceed targeted performance.
- Lead the area to operational excellence through superior manufacturing techniques, application of ME tools and principles, total quality principles, and application of GCF’s Reliability Roadmap tools.
- Provides leadership and resources to support engagement and a high-performance work team.
- Ensure development and implementation of manufacturing systems, including use of sustainability tools such as Trouble/Cause/Correction (TCC) and Centerlining.
- Help develop, demonstrate, and support an organizational culture based upon values of empowerment, high involvement, and participative workforce in a customer and quality-focused organization.
- Lead a total quality management process, which will ensure the highest quality production and customer standards, meeting environmental requirements.
- Develops, maintains, and uses sustainable methods for all processes and improvements.
- Manage team members in the mill as necessary to minimize downtime and maintain quality, set clear expectations, and hold team members accountable for meeting them.
- Maintains and develops team relationships.
- Participate in the development of the budget and capital plan processes for the area.
- Lead area efforts in year-over-year cost improvement and support the development and implementation of associated projects.
- Ensure team member relations, efforts, and processes are in place that maximize motivation and the desire to work at Flint River.
- Communicate and lead the application of facility policies and standards.
- Leads team members in goal setting and performance management consistent with company and mill direction.
- Coordinate daily operations between shift teams with a focus on process optimization.
- Help prioritize daily and scheduled shutdown maintenance.
- Work with suppliers to form good partnership relations.
- Coach safety in others and leads by example. Champions safety efforts by modeling and maintaining an environment of safe work practices and a proactive approach to safety management.
- Champions and fulfills area-specific 5S Expectations (5-Minute 5S Checklists, Replenishment of tools and supplies, 5S Audits, etc.).
- Understand and meet internal and external customer requirements.
- Develop, maintain, and use reliable methods for all processes and their improvements.
- Manage communication efforts to support all of the above.
Quality Expectations
- Ensure an understanding of quality policy and support efforts for a positive customer experience.
- Aid in the execution of mill-wide quality efforts as needed to help maintain mill quality standards.
Requirements
- Minimum previous team leader/supervisory, project management, etc. experience in the paper industry (two to five years).
- Proven ability to develop others.
- Proven record of leading safe work practices.
- Experience in setting good manufacturing practices and developing administrative and operative systems, including area goals and budgets, using appropriate, reliable, and sustainable methods.
- Ability to fully utilize and build partnerships with external resources including GCF Technology and suppliers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering.
- Experience in working with Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering in Optimization projects and work orders.
- Experience working in a High-Performance Work System.
- Leadership experience working in a quality-focused environment.
- Knowledge of and leadership in paper mill safety practices.
- Greenbelt Certification.
- Microsoft Project knowledge.
Benefits
At Global Cellulose Fibers, our employees are our most important asset, and that’s reflected in our benefits package that includes health, welfare, and retirement plans. We are proud to offer a variety of benefits to support our employees and their families, including:
- Medical, Dental, Life insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- 401(k) and Company-funded retirement contributions
- Paid Time Off
About Global Cellulose Fibers (GCF)
Our GCF business helps customers transform renewable cellulose fibers into essential everyday products. Our safe, high-quality pulp forms the basis for a wide range of applications like towel and tissue products, diapers, feminine care, incontinence, and other personal care products that promote health and wellness. In addition, our specialty pulp serves as a sustainable raw material used in construction materials, paints, coatings, and more. GCF generated $2.8B in revenue in 2024 and has 3,300 employees globally, with nine manufacturing facilities and eight regional offices.