Technical Assistant - Power

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Position Title: 

Technical Assistant - Power

 

Pay Rate:

$101,000-$148,100

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

 

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time

 

Physical Location:

7600 AL-10

Pine Hill, AL 36769

  

The Technical Assistant (TA) role is an assistant to area operations management and acts as a resource for all facets of day-to-day operations, while designing systems to build long-term stability and reliability.  This role is heavily involved in a broad spectrum of areas such as Operations, Maintenance, Technical, and People, and supports safety, environmental, people, operations, and reliability results for the area.  

 

The Job You Will Perform:

• Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results
• Develop tools and systems to maintain compliance with all applicable environmental permitting and ensure all environmental compliance systems are reliable and accurate (NCG, air, water, etc.)
• Support training processes in alignment with GMTI to ensure a pool of highly skilled team members
• Build effective systems and materials such as operating procedures (SOP), troubleshooting documents (TCC), and other training materials
• Support engagement processes to ensure the crews have ownership and feel valued within the organization
• Coordinate within each business unit and across other business units to optimize area production to meet the needs of the department and the mill, including process balances as needed (e.g. upset conditions and outages)
• Complete technical process evaluations and improvements
• Seek out and implement best practices using teams, databases, vendors, and other technical resources
• Support the manufacturing work systems (MWS) process to prioritize and plan daily work, routine outages, and annual outages including operational, maintenance, and contractor tasks
• Coordinate outage and other routine work as needed, which may include review of bid proposals and planned spending to ensure maximum value is achieved
• Serve as a contractor coordinator (owner’s rep) as required
• Support improvements in a healthy and highly functioning basic care process
• Lead ongoing improvement efforts in reliability pacesetter elements
• Participate in the 5S program for the area, including leading 5S improvement projects as needed
• Participate in cost reduction program idea generation and implementation process
• Provide support for capital project development and implementation