Asset Leader-Paper Machine

Where you will work:

The Shelby location is Clearwater Paper's newest consumer products facility, boasting two paper mills located on 400 acres with over 600 talented employees. We are proud to produce a variety of high-quality premium and ultra-premium bathroom tissue, household paper towels, and napkins for major retail outlets throughout the United States. Our state-of-the-art technology includes 10 converting lines, 54 laser-guided vehicles, and 2 paper machines producing large quantities at high speed. Employees in Shelby are hard-working and proud to provide a quality product in an essential industry.

Shelby, North Carolina is a quaint community located between bustling downtown Charlotte and scenic Asheville. The town is a stone's throw from Gastonia, Belmont, and Kings Mountain. Shelby's art, music, and government community take place in the Uptown Shelby historic district. Uptown Shelby is home to a large square, local businesses, and a variety of restaurants surrounding The Courthouse Square. The local pavilion hosts weekly Farmer's markets and weekend concerts. There is plenty of opportunity for activity in Shelby with groups that engage in hiking, cycling, running, CrossFit, and yoga. The Cleveland County Fair is the largest county agricultural fair in North Carolina held in the fall each year. Shelby offers a variety of opportunities for social service including the Boys & Girls Club, United Way, Communities and Schools, and Children's Home of Cleveland County. Shelby is proud of its local schools including several K-12 and high schools, trade schools, and community colleges.

What you will do:

Safety

• Responsible for area safety and assist with all area safety efforts. Participate or review all safety incidents and investigate root cause. Ensure follow-up items are completed in a timely manner.

• Help support the behavioural safety program and ensure that safe work practices are followed.

• Lead safety initiatives and provide safety training to ensure safe work practices are followed and enforced.

• Work to eliminate employee interactions with equipment.

• Address safety concerns with urgency.

• Ensure environmental compliance.

• Responsible for ensuring proper Lockout/tagout program and upkeep

Quality

• Maintain and improve quality standards for all products produced.

• Ensure quality checks/floor audits happen

• Support product development activities, including trials

• Lead and support all GMP Audits

• Lead quality initiatives and support change to ensure satisfied downstream customers.

• Follow up with rejected product to ensure timely disposition.

Production

• Sets goals and objectives for production area

• Coaches the department in the right behaviors

• Ensures the department works to standards (Safety, Quality, …)

• Develops the required standards

• Coaches and facilitate losses elimination by using problem solving tools

• Assures the problems are solved (root cause) and tasks are implemented in a sustainable way

• Defines and executes improvement projects and Approval For Capital Expenditure (AFCE) needs to support 1-5 year plans

• Owns the Daily Operating Review (DOR)/Weekly Operating Review (WOR)

• Ensures effective communication and results review through the meeting sequence (Shift Hand Off [SHO], DOR, WOR)

• Ensures the business unit works to standards such as safety and quality

• Accountable for the business unit operational budget

• Defines and executes improvement projects for production area

• Ensures effective communication and results review through site operational meetings

Leadership

• Mentor shift supervisors to ensure quality leadership of hourly personnel.

• Provide leadership coverage during the Superintendent's absence.

• Conduct investigations of safety incidents with shift supervisors and hourly personnel.

• Develop team in areas of safety, quality, production and overall plant efficiency

• Ensure employee compliance with schedules, policies and procedures.

• Assist in developing and implementing job-specific training program, Qual-card and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's).

• Support capital budget process.

• Creates an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team work

• Assists in performance management process of hourly employees and direct reports in the immediate production area

• Coaches and develop team members and individuals to assure a sustained leadership pipeline (including 1:1 meetings)

• Assists in the motivation and morale of the production area to achieve the expected goals

• Collaborates with other areas internal and external to the site

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results.

• Identifies more critical and less critical activities and assignments; adjusts priorities when appropriate.

• Allocates appropriate amounts of time for completing own and others' work; avoids scheduling conflicts; develops timelines and milestones.

• Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision-making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others' knowledge and skills.

What you will need:

• High school diploma or GED required. B.S. Chemical Engineer or Pulp and Paper science preferred.

• Minimum of three (3) years in an operations leadership role in a Paper or Consumer Packaged Goods processing facility.

• Strong coaching and mentoring skills with experience in leading change

• Excellent communication skills, comfortable presenting up to senior level audiences

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.

• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks.

• Self-directed and energetic, able to lead and motivate others.

• Knowledge of industry, machinery, equipment and processes.

• Advanced systems aptitude and excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, ParcView or similar, experience with CMMS such as JD Edwards or similar

• Area is loud, hot with multiple slipping, tripping and falling hazards, as well as in running nips and suspended loads.

• Potential Exposure to Compressed air, steam, hazardous chemicals, lubrication oil, and hydraulic exposure.

• High speed manufacturing environment, sustained exposure to high frequency noises, multiple hours standing, and walking on concrete surfaces

• Personal Protective Equipment required in mill environment.

• Dirt, noise, odor, & temperature extremes.

• Climbing stairs, ladders and scaffolding

Total Reward Details:

We're committed to providing an exceptional workplace experience, including a comprehensive total reward package. This position is eligible for our Incentive Plan. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience among other factors. Benefits are generally available after 30 days and include medical, dental, vision, life, disability coverage, employee assistance program, and a 401k plan. Paid time off will include vacation days, personal days, and company holidays.

Clearwater Paper does not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and will not require Clearwater Paper's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.