Responsibilities
- Lead overall plant operations to achieve safety, quality, production, reliability, and financial performance objectives
- Champion a strong safety and accountability culture through visible leadership, employee engagement, and consistent operational discipline
- Improve equipment reliability and paper machine performance through preventive/predictive maintenance, effective planning and scheduling, root cause analysis, and uptime optimization
- Manage plant financial performance by controlling cost per ton, labor, maintenance, fiber, chemical, and energy costs while identifying opportunities to improve productivity
- Drive continuous improvement and operational recovery initiatives using data-driven problem solving, measurable action plans, and performance tracking to improve underperforming operations
- Develop and strengthen leadership, technical, and hourly teams, building organizational capability and accountability to sustain long-term operational improvements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, or a related field preferred, with 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience in tissue, paper, pulp, or similar process industries
- Proven experience leading paper machine and plant/mill operations, with strong knowledge of papermaking processes, maintenance, reliability systems, and plant financial management
- Strong leadership background with progression from Operations/Production Management into Plant or Mill Leadership, including experience leading large teams, developing talent, and driving organizational change
- Tissue manufacturing experience strongly preferred, along with the ability to improve underperforming operations and deliver measurable, sustainable performance results
Salary: $140k - $160k + profit sharing
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