Operations Maintenance Coordinator – Primary Products

Position Title: 

Operations Maintenance Coordinator – Primary Products

Pay Rate: 

$102,000 - $112,000 

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

Category/Shift: 

Salaried (Exempt) Full-Time 

On-site Position

Physical Location: 

401 Avenue U 

Bogalusa, LA 70427

The Job You Will Perform: 

• Assume the role of team leader of the Manufacturing Work System (MWS) program, its overall functionality, and directly accountable for its success

• Assure safety awareness, safe work and compliance with safety rules and policies in the coordination of the operations and maintenance functions

• Conduct the daily MWS meetings and ensure the agenda is strictly followed

• Plan and schedule the proper work to ensure process reliability

• Oversee process preparation for maintenance:

  • System shutdown and isolation

  • System preparation and work area clean-up

  • System Zero Energy State (ZES) and Group Lockout/Tag outs (LOTO)

  • Work permitting (hot work, confined space entry, line breaking, etc.)

• Drive the effort for continuous improvement in reliability

• Provide assistance and technical advice necessary to assist in the operations process.

• Review new work notifications for the area daily ensuring that all notifications have been properly screened, identified and prioritized

• Manage notifications by deleting duplicates, ensuring proper user status and revision codes, processing notifications, understanding the job scopes and communicating with the notification originators

• Achieve MWS metrics such as % break in work, schedule adherence, precision maintenance completion, Reliability Recordables, etc.

• Assume ownership of the department notification and work order backlog

• Review area planned backlogs weekly with the Maintenance Supervisors to update priorities, purge the backlog of unneeded or completed work and develop a work schedule for the following week.

• Review Operator Round Sheets and Basic Care Route Reports for issues, communicating with Operators for details and ensuring that a notification has been written

• Coordinate Field Day activities, including MS Project timelines, work tracking, job progress and operational readiness

• Coordinate Annual Outage activities, including MS Project timelines, work tracking, job progress and operational readiness

• Achieve monthly budgeted spending, including annual outages and repair jobs

• Ensure a temporary OMC is always designated to perform all MWS duties when absent from the mill

• Fulfill weekend duty role as assigned

The Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge You Will Bring: 

• Demonstrated and successful leadership ability in a manufacturing environment, including knowledge of and leadership in manufacturing safety practices.
• 3+ years’ experience in pulp and paper.
• Must have a high level of integrity, energy, and leadership ability to develop and lead others.
• Demonstrated and successful ability to lead and continuously improve team performance in order to work injury-free, provide a quality product, and achieve world class productivity in support of a high-performance work system.
• Effective oral and written communications skills with proven ability to provide positive and improvement feedback, coaching opportunities, and take corrective measures as appropriate.
• Strong computer skills required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• College Degree Preferred
• Excellent skills in organizing, planning, priority setting, and time management, with proven ability to adapt to sudden changes in the work environment.
• Ability to effectively facilitate problem solving or conflict resolution processes.

• Previous supervisory experience preferred.