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Business Unit Leader - Paper

First Quality
Anderson, SC Full Time
POSTED ON 3/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/6/2025

We are seeking a Business Unit Leader for our First Quality Tissue SE, LLC located in Anderson, SC. This position will be responsible for providing leadership to the business unit to include overall performance with the goal of improving departmental efficiencies and lowering operating costs while ensuring compliance with government mandates and FQT systems. Provide leadership and guidance to the business unit leaders responsible for crew performance, maintenance coordination, and continuous improvement to meet or exceed Safety, Quality, Speed, Efficiency, Waste, and Cost objectives. Own the team's overall performance results.

Primary responsibilities include :

  • Promote an action-oriented safety culture embracing safety as a core value, instilling and exemplifying a safety mindset for all team members resulting in an incident free workplace
  • Comply with, and be a role model for, all First Quality Safety, policies, guidelines, and procedures
  • Demonstrate business and leadership acumen
  • Drive business strategy and vision and promote positive change with the entire workforce
  • Organize, prioritize and lead business unit to solve tactical and strategic opportunities
  • Maintain a constructive working relationship with other departments in order to efficiently resolve cross department issues
  • Apply comprehensive knowledge and full understanding of the paper making and / or converting process
  • Instill mindset of "sense of urgency" and a "results driven" culture
  • Provide leadership to support a continuous improvement culture focused on manufacturing fundamentals and manufacturing excellence
  • Primary person responsible for coordinating with HR to ensure investigation processes are followed in team member incidents
  • Primary person responsible for all safety & environmental incidents and ensure appropriate countermeasures are identified and completed on time
  • Ensure teams are compliant in key areas of Safety, Quality, Production and Skill Development
  • Ensure best practices are communicated and implemented across business units utilizing Management of Change and Improvement Idea processes
  • Owner of production targets and forecasts
  • Owner of business unit's quality results
  • Ensure the reliability work system is executed with collaboration between operating and maintenance teams
  • Manage spending to budget
  • Manage overtime and labor effectiveness
  • Owner of Capital plan and execution of approved projects on time
  • Owner of extraordinary maintenance plan
  • Ensure waste is at or below standard
  • Ensure inventory accuracy at or above target

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills :

  • Bachelor's degree in technical or business management field preferred.
  • Minimum 7 years of experience with Paper Manufacturing or Converting required, TAD experience preferred.
  • Experience in a lean manufacturing environment preferred.
  • Demonstrates good leadership qualities - accountability, credibility, trust.
  • Standard knowledge of OSHA laws and regulations within the manufacturing field.
  • SAP knowledge preferred.
  • Employs excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Possesses excellent time management and organizational skills.
  • Analytical thought process by identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
  • First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

    First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.

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