Paper Area Manufacturing Area Leader

Paper Area Manufacturing Leader

The Paper Area Manufacturing Leader will be responsible for leading the day‑to‑day operations of our two paper machines at the Brewton mill. They will oversee six salaried direct reports and have indirect responsibility for the entire paper team of 160+ employees. They will partner closely with, act as a strategic thought partner, and report to the Paper Production Leader.

This position will provide strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost. The successful candidate will utilize problem‑solving skills while focusing on safely improving productivity and reducing cost through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement with a high sense of urgency.

• Providing leadership through application of Koch’s Principled Based Management (PBM) philosophy to achieve superior results.
• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction and risk mitigation.
• Work with Area Leader and other leaders to coach and develop employees.
• Lead teams in the identification, development, evaluation and implementation of safety, quality, and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that has the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate ownership for planning outages and routine maintenance.
• Understand, communicate, and align goals in the areas of safety, quality, production and reliability.
• Drive process and equipment modifications that result in improved product quality, reduced variation, and higher customer satisfaction.
• Ensure that major quality non‑conformance events are identified, owned, investigated, and effective corrective actions are implemented to mitigate or eliminate waste.
• Utilize constructive challenge process to drive to optimum solution.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering with eight (8) or more years of experience in pulp and paper manufacturing OR ten (10) years of experience in pulp and paper manufacturing operation.
• Experience in developing and implementing improvement processes and projects.
• Knowledge of industrial manufacturing processes (i.e., chemical, paper, power, etc.) along with fundamentals of equipment operation for effective interface with maintenance.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Five (5) or more years of supervisory experience in multiple areas in the paper industry.
• Experience managing in a labor union environment.
• Organization optimization experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E‑Verify.