Operations Leader - Pulper

About the role

This unique role combines technical engineering ownership with people leadership and capability development responsibilities within the pulp operation. The successful candidate will drive operational excellence by improving asset reliability, enhancing process performance, developing team capabilities, and creating long-term value through continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead with Principle-Based Management® and influence a culture of safety, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Coach, mentor, and develop employees while identifying and closing performance and knowledge gaps across the pulp operation.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, and reliability teams to improve asset performance, operating capability, and operational effectiveness.
• Provide technical leadership and troubleshooting support for pulp processes and equipment to improve reliability, quality, and production performance.
• Analyze operational and process data to identify opportunities to improve yield, quality, efficiency, energy consumption, and overall pulp operation performance.
• Manage and improve asset strategies by partnering with reliability, planning, and maintenance resources to maximize equipment availability and long-term asset health.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, capital improvements, equipment modifications, and outage planning activities that create value for the business.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements while communicating operational performance and improvement opportunities to leadership.

Requirements

A successful candidate must have leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, experience leading continuous improvement, reliability, or process improvement initiatives, experience coaching, mentoring, training, or developing others to improve capability and performance, and a Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Paper Science, Bioresource Engineering, or a related technical field. Experience in the pulp and paper industry and experience providing leadership to teams in a manufacturing environment, formally or informally, is preferred. Experience using process analytics and maintenance systems such as PI Vision, PARCview, SAP, or similar platforms is also preferred.

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Paper Science, Bioresource Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience in the pulp and paper industry.
• Experience providing leadership to teams in a manufacturing environment, formally or informally.
• Experience using process analytics and maintenance systems such as PI Vision, PARCview, SAP, or similar platforms.

Skills

The ideal candidate should possess strong technical skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications is required.

Benefits

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Full-time position.