Power and Utilities Area Technical Assistant

What You Will Do

• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation
• Collaborate directly with operators, shift leaders and Superintendents to meet the business objectives of the department and influence continuous improvement
• Lead teams in the identification, development, evaluation and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that add the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement
• Lead outage planning and execution for cycle and routine outages; serve as an integral team member for annual outages
• Aid in the development and implementation of capital projects involving process improvements to document and optimize efforts
• Use process data, operating trends, and field observations to troubleshoot Power, Utilities, Recovery, and Causticizing systems and identify opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, environmental performance, and operating stability
• Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, reliability, and process control teams to resolve chronic equipment and process issues involving boilers, steam systems, turbines, liquor cycle equipment, rotating equipment, instrumentation, and process controls
• Support outage scope development by identifying technical priorities, validating repair recommendations, and ensuring equipment and process risks are addressed before restart
• Lead or participate in root cause analyses, management of change reviews, and technical problem-solving efforts related to safety, environmental compliance, reliability, quality, and cost performance

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Two (2) or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
• One (1) or more years of experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies
• Experience using Microsoft Office tools in the following manner: Excel (sorting data, creating tables and creating graphs), Microsoft Project, Outlook (scheduling tasks, calendar invitations and general professional correspondence), and Word (document creation/editing)