Front Line Leader- Power

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Position Title: 

Front Line Leader- Power

 

Pay Rate:

$79,100-$105,500

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:

3737 Highway 3

Redwood, MS 39156

 

The Job You Will Perform:

At the Vicksburg Mill, the Utilities Shift Manager, as first line leader, is responsible for supervising and leading all aspects of shift operations for approximately 20 team members in the Utilities areas. The Utilities Shift Manager supports the operating crews’ contribution to achieving department and mill objectives and facilitates sound business decisions. The Utilities Shift Manager is accountable for the daily coordination of available mill resources to ensure continuity of mill operations, working closely with the Finished Products Shift Manager. Successful candidates should be self-motivated and display initiative by identifying and completing tasks. Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results.

 

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

 

• Safety— The Utilities 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 Utilities Shift Manager manages daily shift operations of the Woodyard, pulp mill, and Power house 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 Utilities 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 with the Woodyard, Pulp, and Power Operators, creating alignment with the operating strategies and goals of the Woodyard, Pulp, and Power Area Process Managers and the Pulp/Power Business Unit Manager; hold monthly crew meetings, effectively communicate and plan production with all departments (Paper Machine and Shipping).  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 Utilities 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 improvement ideas in the DRIVE system for further consideration and development; leading on-shift improvement initiatives.

• Team Development and Engagement— The Utilities 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.

 

The Skills You Will Bring:

• Five or more years’ experience in manufacturing is required, with experience in Power operations.
• Willing to work on rotating shifts
• The qualified candidate will be a self-starter and have the ability to set expectations and motivate Top Operators