Job Description

Your Job

The

Utilities Reliability Leader

role at the Leaf River Cellulose Mill in

New Augusta, MS

is responsible for supporting the area's reliability, efficiency, and production improvements through asset strategy development, root cause analysis, outage scope management, asset health and condition monitoring, and strategic investment. This role is also a key leader for the utilities department and accountable for the team's objectives associated with Environmental, Safety, Quality, culture, personnel while ensuring alignment with the company's management philosophy, Principle Based Management (MBM) . This role will supervise a team of reliability engineers in the area and working with them to establish and drive key reliability initiatives focused on driving improvement. The team is responsible for developing the tactical and strategic improvement plans targeting known gaps as identified by the team through asset strategy development, investment, and maintenance repair through area and annual outage planning cycles.

Our Team

The Leaf River Cellulose Mill is a large paper plant, north of New Augusta, Mississippi. They produce filter grade pulp and market pulp, which is used in the manufacturing of coffee filters, vacuum cleaner bags, automotive filters, printing paper, tissue paper, and coated paper.


What You Will Do

Lead and direct the work of the area reliability team. Develop and mentor reliability engineers within the area and central team Collaborate with the central mill reliability team to develop and execute strategic reliability initiatives. Work closely with the Area Leader to develop and execute reliability improvement plans focused on known and understood gaps within the area. Consistently apply the PBM, Guiding Principles and Decision-making Framework with the manufacturing and support teams. Effectively support the mill vision in the development and execution of reliability plans. Develop and critique outage planning processes, defines outage scope, and aids in the execution and tracking of outage workloads. Work with others to improve the outage processes. Helps develop strategic investment portfolio for the area based on performance gaps and ensure projects are initiative to help support the area plans. Monitor and engage team with support systems such as PHA, MOC, Trax, and Incident review Get involved tactically with upset conditions and failures to drive RCA work through the team Monitor and assess reliability performance, build reports, and scorecards that help communicate and connect the team to the issues and improvement work

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Experience in operations, maintenance, or Reliability in a manufacturing or industrial environment. Experience in a pulp or paper mill in an engineering, planning, or top operator position in a utilities operational department Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

What Will Put You Ahead

Engineering degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or related field of study Supervisory experience in an industrial Ops, Maint., Reliability, or Engineering role Experience in utilities, recaust, evaporators, or wastewater treatment area Project, process, or reliability engineering experience

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.


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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan 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. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.


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Equal Opportunities

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