Mill Integration Leader

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The Mill Integration Leader is responsible for ensuring the successful integration of a major capital project into existing mill operations. This role serves as the primary connection between the project organization and mill operations, ensuring the new assets, systems, processes, and organizational capabilities are safely and effectively incorporated into the operating facility. The Mill Integration Leader will provide leadership across operational readiness, mill interfaces, commissioning, startup, training, procedures, maintenance readiness, and transition to operations.

The role will work closely with Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, Maintenance, Process Control, Reliability, EHS, and mill leadership to ensure the facility is prepared to safely operate and sustain the new assets at startup.

The Alabama River Cellulose Mill is a large paper plant in Perdue Hill, Alabama. They produce fluff pulp and market pulp, which is used in the manufacturing many different paper and absorbent products. You will be part of a dedicated workforce focused on operational, safety, and environmental excellence. Our team exemplifies a commitment to producing top-quality products while maintaining industry-leading safety standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

• Serve as the primary integration point between the capital project team and mill organization.
• Ensure project decisions appropriately consider existing mill operations, infrastructure, personnel, processes, and business requirements.
• Coordinate project activities that impact existing operating areas, utilities, production systems, and mill infrastructure.
• Identify and manage operational interfaces, dependencies, constraints, and risks between the project and existing facility.
• Ensure appropriate mill stakeholders are engaged in design reviews, planning, commissioning, and startup decisions.
• Facilitate timely resolution of cross-functional issues that could impact project execution or mill operations.

• Lead development and execution of the project's Operational Readiness Plan.
• Establish readiness requirements, milestones, ownership, and performance indicators.
• Ensure operating organizations are prepared with the appropriate staffing, competencies, procedures, systems, tools, and resources prior to startup.
• Coordinate readiness assessments and identify gaps requiring closure before commissioning and startup.
• Establish clear criteria for turnover and acceptance of systems from the project organization to mill operations.
• Ensure long-term ownership and sustainability requirements are incorporated into project execution.

• Partner with the Commissioning and Startup teams to develop an integrated pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup, and ramp-up strategy.
• Ensure Operations and Maintenance are appropriately involved throughout commissioning.
• Coordinate mill resources required to support system turnover, commissioning, startup, and performance testing.
• Support development of systemization, turnover packages, startup sequencing, and operating acceptance criteria.
• Ensure appropriate operational risk assessments and startup readiness reviews are completed.
• Facilitate transition from construction and commissioning ownership to permanent mill ownership.
• Support stabilization and ramp-up following initial startup.

• Ensure operating procedures, startup/shutdown procedures, abnormal operating procedures, and emergency response requirements are developed and approved.
• Coordinate development and execution of operator and maintenance training.
• Ensure maintenance strategies,…