Area Process Manager Paper

• Primary responsibility for leading PM.
• Leads efforts in key focus area including safety, production and cost efficiencies, reliability, team member engagement, and environmental, to achieve or exceed targeted performance.
• Lead the area to operational excellence through superior manufacturing techniques, application of ME tools and principles, total quality principles, and application of IP's Reliability Roadmap tools.
• Provides leadership and resources to support engagement and a high performance work team.
• Ensure development and implementation of manufacturing systems; including use of sustainability tools such as Trouble/Cause/Correction (TCC) and Centerlining.
• Help develop, demonstrate and support an organizational culture based upon values of empowerment, high involvement, and participative work force in a customer and quality focused organization.
• Lead a total quality management process, which will assure the highest quality production and customer standards, which meet environmental requirements.
• Develops, maintains, and uses sustainable methods for all processes and improvements.
• Manages team members in the mill as necessary to minimize downtime and maintain quality, and sets clear expectations holding team members accountable for meeting them.
• Maintains and develops team relationships.
• Participate in the development of the budget and capital plan processes for area.
• Lead area efforts in year-over-year cost improvement and supports the development and implementation of associated projects.
• Ensure team member relations, efforts and processes are in place that maximize motivation and the desire to work at Newport.
• Communicate and lead the application of facility policies and standards.
• Leads team members in goal setting and performance management consistent with company and mill direction.
• Coordinate daily operations between shift teams with a focus on process optimization.
• Help prioritize daily and scheduled shutdown maintenance.
• Work with suppliers to form good partnership relations and maximize TCO value.
• Coach safety in others and leads by example.
• Champions safety efforts by modeling and maintaining an environment of safe work practices and proactive approach to safety management.
• Champions and fullfils area specific 5S Expectations (5 Minute 5S Checklists Replenishment of tools and supplies, 5S Audits, etc).
• Understand and meets internal and external customer requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and use reliable methods for all processes and their improvements.
• Maintain and develop team relationships.
• Manage the communication efforts to support all of the above.

• Must be able to wear all required safety equipment.
• Noise levels in excess of 90 dB.
• Heat in excess of 100°F occasionally.
• Working environment is 24/7-ability to be on-call as need and/or required.
• Ability to work on concrete, and periodically move equipment/tools weighing up to 50lbs

• Previous team leader/supervisory, project management, etc. experience in the paper industry (two to five years).

• Experience in working with Maintenance and Engineering in Optimization projects and work orders.
• Proven ability to develop others.
• Proven record of leading safe work practices.
• Experience in setting good manufacturing practices and developing administrative and operative systems, including area goals and budgets, using the appropriate, reliable and sustainable methods.
• Ability to fully utilize and build partnerships with external resources like IP Technology and suppliers.

• BS in Science or Engineering.
• Experience working in High Performance Work System.
• Leadership experience working in a quality focused environment
• Knowledge of and leadership in paper mill safety practices.
• GreenBelt Certification
• Microsoft Project knowledge

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