Finished Products Shift Manager

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Position Title: 

Finished Products Shift Manager 

 

Pay Rate: 

$81,700- $108, 900 

 

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range. 

Variable pay may provide additional opportunities for financial awards. This job is eligible to participate in IP’s short –term incentive plan. 

 

Category/Shift:  
Salaried Full-Time 

 

Physical Location:  
238 Mays Bridge Road 

Rome, GA 30165 

 

The Job You Will Perform: 

At the Vicksburg Mill, the Finished Products Shift Manager, as first line leader, is responsible for supervising and leading all aspects of shift operations. The Shift Manager will be responsible for approximately 15-20 team members in the Stock Prep, Paper, and Shipping Departments. The Shift Manager supports the operating crews’ contribution to achieving department and mill objectives and facilitates sound business decisions. The Shift Manager is accountable for the daily coordination of available mill resources to ensure continuity of mill operations, working closely with his/her peer Shift Manager. Successful candidates should be self-motivated and display initiative by identifying and completing tasks.

 

Key Accountabilities: 

The primary focus for the Shift Manager at the Vicksburg Mill is to ensure the productivity and performance of the operating team in each of these key areas: 

• Safety— The Shift Manager demonstrates safety leadership, setting the highest standard for safety and holding all team members accountable to it. The Shift Manager is responsible for correcting unsafe behaviors and conditions, driving a culture of safety with team members, conducting incident investigations, and completing safety observations.  

• Operations— The Shift Manager manages daily shift operations of his/her designated process area with a focus on reliable operation. The Shift Manager is responsible for meeting and exceeding established production goals by supporting routine and annual outages, driving completion of equipment care rounds and identification of reliability issues, coordinating shift maintenance and other resources to address reliability issues.  

• Communication— The Shift Manager actively communicates within the department, across the mill, and with all levels of the organization. The Shift Manager must coordinate and communicate within the department, creating alignment with the operating strategies and goals of the Area Process Managers and the Business Unit Manager; hold monthly crew meetings, effectively communicate and plan production with all departments across the mill. When necessary the Shift Manager will alert appropriate people of downtime and other operating issues, support the crews’ communication with other departments, assist in calling in and coordinating resources to address upsets, or to fill vacancies.  

• Continuous Improvement— The Shift Manager creates a culture of continuous improvement on shift. The Shift Manager is responsible for harnessing the experience and creativity of all team members to improve the equipment, the workplace, and the process to achieve year-over-year improvement; capturing cost reduction and deliberate improvement ideas for further consideration and development; leading on-shift improvement initiatives. 

• Team Development and Engagement— The Shift Manager is a team builder and a performance coach. The Shift Manager will enhance employee engagement by providing leadership and direction to the shift, insure implementation of individual team member training programs in coordination with the Learning Leaders, assign responsibility for tasks and decisions amongst the crew, give specific recognition and feedback for each team member; complete area engagement plans, listen and respond to employee issues, insure personnel issues on crew are addressed. 

 

Physical Demands / Working Environment: 

• Must be able to wear all required safety equipment (PPE). 

• Must be able to perform required duties in a mill/manufacturing setting. 

• Must be able to work nights and weekends as required for project implementation. 

 

Knowledge and Experience: 

• Five or more years experience in manufa