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Operations Manager

W3Global
Baileyville, ME Full Time
POSTED ON 3/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/24/2025
About The Job

Position: Operations Manager

Position scope

Manages the overall operation to provide high-quality tissue products safely and efficiently.

Ensure that operating equipment is maintained in order to obtain maximum runnability and manages the tissue operations to minimize production and quality impacts to finished products department.

Roles & Responsibilities

Ensure employee safety by maintaining a safety-minded focus and modeling a safety-minded work attitude.

Enforce safety policies, safe working practices, quality, and production goals.

Responsible for reporting safety incidents, ensuring standard operating procedures are up-to-date, work requests are entered, lockout tagout procedures are correct, etc.

Supervise and provide leadership to twenty (20) people (daily and on shift) including hourly and salary.

Continually assess the performance, productivity, skills, and weaknesses of the department by performing informal and formal employee evaluations.

Directs and coordinates all daily operations of the tissue facility, including providing input for the run schedule, working with maintenance department for continuous improvement and machine runnability.

Supervises work of others including planning, assigning, and scheduling work during outages. Also includes reviewing work, ensuring quality standards are met, training staff, and overseeing productivity.

Provide training, support, motivation, and supervision to superintendents and employees.

Involve staff in planning, decision-making, facilitating and process improvements, as well as assisting with improving runnability and efficiency projects.

Strong knowledge of how the tissue manufacturing process operates.

Able to lead a team of superintendents and Team Leaders.

Provide the leadership and share knowledge and best practice of tissue manufacturing including startups and shutdowns.

Works collaboratively with other supervisors, engineering, quality control, and other disciplines to ensure customer needs are met in a timely and accurate manner.

Function as a liaison to other mill departments, outside suppliers, and service providers.

Provide leadership for Reliability Excellence initiatives.

For example, work with the Loss Elimination focus group to establish goals and areas to focus on.

Work with Operations/Maintenance Coordinator to drive the planning and scheduling effort for shutdowns and Annual Maintenance Outage's to improve the runnability and safety of the tissue machine operation. This goes along with the Reliability Excellence initiatives involved with Work Management.

Communicates problems and obstacles to the Mill Manager and the leadership team.

Assists in preparation of annual plant operating budget. Work to meet or exceed plant productivity, cost, or other performance metric expectations as outlined by plant manager.

Manages vacation time, as well as all time and attendance for superintendents.

Skills

Ability to work effectively with all groups of people, including unionized work force.

Candidate needs to have strong communication skills, (i.e., interpersonal, written and verbal)

Desired computer skills are Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel), and CMMS experience

Self-directed and motivated to complete special projects.

Able to multi-task efficiently under demanding circumstances

Organized, attention to detail, and able to manage numerous initiatives simultaneously.

Education

Bachelor's degree in chemical or other Engineering field desired, however 5-8 years equivalent work experience in the Pulp & Paper Industry can be suitable.

Working Conditions

Supervising operations within the plant will include being on the production floor in a hot, dusty environment. There is a lot of walking and stairs involved, with some office work required.

Includes following detailed mill safety and environmental procedures.

The company will provide training regarding union contracts, and various reporting software's used, including meeting environmental and safety objectives.

Will also provide training to make sure the candidate is trained in Reliability Excellence initiatives such as work requests regarding the CMMS system.

There is also room for advancement or changing of work area, if so desired. This position will report to the Mill Manager.

Benefits Of The Job

Competitive salary based on experience

Medical, Dental and Vision options

HSA option

Work/Life Employee Assistance Program

Vacation (based on tenure), 8 paid holidays and 5 personal days.

401K with competitive match

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