Pulp Business Unit Manager

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Position Title: 

Pulp Business Unit Manager

 

Pay Rate:

$137,400-$183,200

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:

601 County Rd 78

Selma, Al

 

The Job You Will Perform:

The Fibers BUM will work closely with a variety of different leaders within the department and mill to deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Display safety leadership above all things and at all times and ensure the highest expectations are in place with respect to environmental compliance
• Coordinate and communicate with mill operations, maintenance, engineering, and management personnel on a day-to-day basis while performing duties
• Demonstrate a proactive approach to operations by working with the other business units to balance operations for the good of the mill
• Manage and deliver on detailed list of objectives that support mill goals for safety, environment, financial, capital and reliability, with a strong focus on results
• Participate and lead as a member of the mill lead team and people development council
• Conduct one to one developmental discussions and coach employees to accomplish team goals, ensuring proper and consistent accountability processes are in place within the department
• Actively build and maintain strong relationships with union representatives for the department and mill
• Engage team in achieving individual, team, department, mill, and company goals; manage plans to ensure the leaders and crews have ownership and feel valued within the organization
• Ensure active and effective training processes in place
• Understand, promote, and deliver results on reliability systems to deliver on year-over-year (YOY) improvement goals for reliability
• Ensure outage processes in place to deliver on department and mill routine and annual outage objectives
• Understand, promote and deliver results for Manufacturing Excellence (ME) tools and processes; participate and lead ME improvement initiatives in the department
• Support 5S program for the area and drive improvement projects, audit systems, and excellent results
• Provide direct (personal) and department support for and participation in the mill’s structured cost reduction efforts/teams