Job Information
WestRock Company Paper Machine OMC in Longview, Washington
The opportunity:
Provide the maintenance coordination activities required for maintaining and ensuring reliability, at the lowest cost, for the area of responsibility.
Provide support to the Area Manager and Process Manager (Foreman) to ensure operational and maintenance activities are scheduled, coordinated, and executed to drive process and equipment reliability.
Manage in a goal-oriented environment to deliver target results in the areas of safety, reliability, cost, quality, productivity, and employee engagement.
Drive improvement in the operational performance and quality systems
Support the area manager to accomplish the department goals
How you will impact WestRock:
Health and Safety
Actively demonstrate adherence to all mill and departmental policies, to recognize and correct behaviors inconsistent with these policies and to demonstrate a zero tolerance to behaviors inconsistent with these policies.
Achieve expertise with mill LOTO policy and be LOTO leader in your area.
Support the safety initiatives established by the Paper Machine Supt in pursuit of an accident-free workplace.
Engage hourly personnel involvement in the mill\u2019s safety program.
Set priorities for maintenance to ensure safety related request and issues are resolved in a timely manner.
Environmental
Foster an environment where employees work safely and follow the environmental guidelines.
Support the environmental initiatives established by the paper machine superintendent in the pursuit of 100% environmental compliance.
People/HR
Commit to an appropriate and effective set of core values and belief, during all times, that above all respects the efforts of the management team, supports the vision of management roles and thus enhances the collective goals of the entire paper department.
Assist as needed in the evaluations of process managers (foreman) on yearly basis to ensure performance individual performances are contributing positively to the department and mill goals related to reliability.
Assist in the development and executing of the engagement plan for the salary and hourly workforce.
EPAM
Involved in every aspect of the EPAM process and meeting metrics.
The principal manager of EPAM process in the operating department.
The primary contact with the maintenance department.
Assures all work is identified. Sets work identification expectations of operating crews and actively follows up to maintain engagement.
Principle person responsible for initial screening of work requests
The principal person responsible for verifying and prioritizing identified work. Assures accuracy of information on the request.
Shares in developing plans (mostly operational).
Shares in developing planned work backlog for operational duties.
Jointly responsible for keeping the backlog up to date and prioritized with the maintenance planner and supervisor. One of the key people for developing the weekly plan off of the planned work backlog.
Schedules and leads weekly planning meeting.
Shares in developing the schedules for outage, weekly, and daily work.
Shares in responsibility for recording what was done in the auditing process (operational work).
Helps determine whether break-in work is justified.
Primary person responsible for determining if contracted labor will be used for operational activities (hydro-blasting, cleaning, and vacuum work).
Shares the responsibility in determining whether work is outage or routine.
Serves as the overall outage coordinator. Assures all timelines are met.
Schedules, owns, and leads outage planning meetings and critiques.
Documents outage summary in the database for all machine outages.
Communicated scheduling changes to management, crews, and contractors.
Coordinates work scheduling meetings (daily and outage).
Helps resolve safety concerns with work.
Reviews operator round forms and ensures work order is written and completed with assistance of process managers (foreman). Follows up with operating crews after the completion of work.
Manages area reliability efforts through daily D.A. meetings (basic care, precision maintenance, preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, etc.). Understands and tracks all top downtime hitters and aligns maintenance focus.
Quality
Support the quality initiatives established by the Paper Machine Superintendent in the pursuit of customer satisfaction.
Support the use of analytical troubleshooting skills.
RCFA
Assist in the maintaining of a list of top chronic or repetitive issue for the department and assign support leader to research and resolve the list.
Budgeting
Support the production in efforts to work with the finance department to set budgets and track for the following:
Overall Machine Efficiency (OME)
Maintain Area 5yr Capital and Repair, including EM/MOC Plan
Work with maintenance dept Repair job scopes.
Ensure area needs are prioritized and funded for continuous improvement with no loss of production ever for facilities failures.
Review and update the list at least semiannually.
Key Metrics
Safety
Safety observation sharing
Safety recordable incidents
LWIR
RIR
Housekeeping
Safety Work order completion
Condensate Return Improvement
Fiber loss
Water Usage Reduction
Environmental Audit Compliance of 100%
Financial
Meet or exceed budget allocations
EPAM
Compliance to weekly schedule
Preventative maintenance route compliance
Percent emergency work
Operations
Machine performance = 100% of Budget
Machine acceptance = Budget
Machine availability = Budget
Machine OME = Budget
Quality
Credit paid as % of sales meet budget
Complaints per 1000 tons meet budget
Reliability
Help area manager drive RCFA process
Chronic Problem Elimination
Precision work completed and documented
What you need to succeed:
Good oral and written communications skills, highly skilled in group communication as well as one to one communication. Ability to determine effective and appropriate means of communication.
Fundamental understanding of mill processes affecting Paper Mill operations, preferred 5-years of operational and/or maintenance experience; Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
Familiar with statistical process control.
Knowledge of maintenance management principles including but not limited to precision maintenance, Preventative maintenance, root cause failure analysis, shutdown and contingency planning, and computer-based maintenance work systems; desire to work with maintenance as a team.
Compensation Offered
Pay (or pay range): $93,075 - $125,925 DOE (Junior, Intermediate, Senior levels)
Bonus/Commission Eligible: Yearly Short-Term Incentive Program (STIP) Bonus based off metrics
Benefits Offered
WestRock offers a variety of benefits and group health insurance options, the premium costs of which are currently shared by employees and WestRock (e.g., health, dental, vision, disability, flexible spending account, HSA, life insurance, paid time off, employee assistance program, matching 401K).
What we offer:
Corporate culture based on integrity, respect, accountability, and excellence.
Comprehensive training with numerous learning and development opportunities
An attractive salary reflecting skills, competencies, and potential.
A career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions. We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts with a shared purpose: Innovate Boldly. Package Sustainably. Guided by our values of integrity, respect, accountability and excellence, we use leading science and technology to move fiber-based packaging forward.
Smurfit Westrock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to create and maintain a diverse workforce where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. Smurfit Westrock does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.