Pm35 Area Manager

Company Description

Pixelle Specialty Solutions is the largest specialty paper company in North America, with fully integrated pulp and paper operations in Chillicothe, Ohio, Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, Stevens Point, Wisconsin and a coating operation in Fremont, Ohio. Supported by an experienced product development team, Pixelle excels in designing customized solutions that help customers bring new products to market. With a long history of leadership in the paper industry, Pixelle delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of specialty papers to help you meet today's challenging demands.

Job Description

Provide overall Line leadership of paper machine, on-line coaters, hot-soft calender, and winder operations including proper support from stock prep and coating. Establish personnel, technical, and process management direction to optimize performance in a team-based environment. Ensure implementation of action items to improve safety, product quality, productivity, product development, costs, training, housekeeping, maintenance, asset improvement, and employee engagement. Provide direction to area coordinators/OMC, engineers, supervisors, and crews.

• Promote Pixelle's Core Value of working safely

• Ensure that employees are trained to perform their jobs safely and that incidents are properly addressed

• Hold Team Members accountable for their safety performance with an emphasis on eliminating unsafe acts

• Ensure that high standards of housekeeping are maintained

• Develop people to drive business results

• Build accountability and engagement while owning the Line's integrated action plan (IAPs)

• Leading/developing the PM35 management group to ensure that they deliver results utilizing tools such as the TDAP

• Support the department safety team to build crew engagement and help facilitate crew-led safety plans

• Build the Line's technical troubleshooting expertise (TCCs, training depth, checklists, etc.)

• Support the training and development efforts on the Line (OJT process)

• Maintain harmonious relations with Team Members by administering contract provisions and company policies

• Improve products to serve customers

• Support the Mill's Quality System and monitor paper quality to ensure the products meet our customers' needs

• Develop, lead, and coordinate the complaint feedback system and corrective & preventative actions

• Support new product development trials and coordinate trial efforts with the Product Development group

• Provide technical feasibility and guidance to the product development group on new projects

• Optimize processes to leverage the assets

• Reduce process variability through supporting the "KVA" system utilization and optimization

• Investigate new equipment or process changes that will improve operations in the long-term

• Coordinate capital planning for the Line looking out five years

• Support the core components of the Mill's Reliability initiative, including tracking and preventing reliability events

• Help drive cost control and implement improvements to efficiently and economically use all resources

• Effectively work with suppliers and outside service groups to ensure highest levels of service and workmanship of the products and raw materials that we use

• Assist in standard and budget setting for annual and long-term plans

• Complete other projects and tasks as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in paper science, chemistry, or engineering

• Five plus years of supervisory experience in paper manufacturing operations such as an assistant production superintendent, OR

• Any equivalent combination of education, training and experience

• Solid management, leadership, decision making, and communication skills

• Drive to produce results

• Possess ambulatory capabilities to move freely about the mill, ascend and descend ladders, and tolerate temperature extremes

• Ability and willingness to work beyond normal Mon-Fri schedule as necessary to fulfill position responsibilities, being on-call as needed and providing weekend, holiday, and evening coverage on a rotating basis (currently 1 in 10).

• Ability to work in a team environment

• Strong communication skills both written and oral clearly communicating procedures, trials, and process changes

Additional Information

• Solid supervisory, leadership, decision-making and communication skills.

• Strong project management and organizational skills.

• Drive to produce results and willingness to take initiative.

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Fluent in MS Office programs (Word, Excel, etc.). Skills in SAP or previous experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is preferred.

WORK SCHEDULE: Normally Monday through Friday with weekend rotation. Work beyond normal schedule as necessary to fulfill position responsibilities.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.