Operations Maintenance Coord

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ECR Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC)

Valliant, OK-PL13

Salary Range ($91,500-$122,000) - 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.

The Job You Will Perform:

The Valliant is a 5,000+ ton per day containerboard mill with 3 paper machines, 3 continuous digesters, 3 secondary Fiber plants and an Energy/Chemical Recovery complex composed of three primary boilers for steam generation (Recovery, Power, Bark), Turbine Generator, Evaporators, Recaust Plant, and wastewater treatment system. It currently operates with over 300 mill employees, 150 contract maintenance employees, and 150 other contractors in a results-oriented environment.

The ECR area includes three primary boilers for steam generation (Recovery, Power, Bark), Turbine Generator, Evaporators, Recaust Plant, and waste water treatment system supporting the production of 5,000+ ton per day of containerboard with 3 paper machines, 3 continuous digesters, and 3 secondary fiber plants.  The Valliant Mill currently operates with 300 mill employees and 150 contract maintenance employees in a results oriented environment.  The objective of this position is to reduce costs and increase productivity by continuously improving efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance work execution through work prioritization, planning, scheduling, and improvement of the MWS process in a sustainable manner.

Key Functions and Accountabilities

• Assure a safe and highly motivated workforce by demonstrating leadership in safety and engagement; exhibiting safety leadership and encouraging safety engagement.
• Champion Area Manufacturing Work System (MWS) execution, deliberate improvement efforts, and standardization.  
• Coordinate tasks between maintenance and operations to ensure proper planning, scheduling, and execution. 
• Facilitate MWS meetings and ensure the daily MWS agenda is strictly followed.
• Leads weekly MWS scheduling meeting to review and prioritize work requests for routine and shutdown work.
• Improve maintenance efficiency by communicating and posting next week’s schedule before end of current week, buffering break-in work, and prioritizing planning and scheduling priorities.
• Coordinate process preparation for maintenance to ensure efficient use of resources.  This includes system shutdown, isolation, preparation (area clean-up), system LOTOs, and work permitting.
• Insure all lockouts (before use) are verified within the last year by knowledgeable operators. Become the area CONFORMiT champion and work with operators to ensure lockout accuracy.
• Improve mill reliability through the disciplined application of the MWS principles with a major focus not only on overall planning and scheduling quality but also the recording of work history.