Paper Machine Process Manager; Assistant Superintendent

Job Details:

Job Location:

WA - Longview, WA, Position Type:
Full Time, Salary Range: $120000.00 - $145000.00

Salary/year, Job Category:
Management, About International Paper - NORPAC Mill

From its world-class manufacturing facility in Longview, WA., the NORPAC mill produces high-quality, packaging, copy paper, and printing paper for customers across the United States and around the world. Now part of International Paper, the NORPAC mill benefits from expanded resources and a strengthened commitment to safety, customer focus, a great workplace, and profitable growth.

IP NORPAC Mill is a team-based work environment where individuals integrate safety, teamwork, innovation, and citizenship as core values in pursuit of world-class performance while leading a principle-based, process-disciplined organization.

This is a safety-sensitive position.

Qualifications:

Position Summary The Paper Machine Process Manager is a key member of the Paper Mill leadership team and supports the Paper Machine Superintendent in delivering safe, reliable, high-quality, and cost-effective operations. The role provides visible field leadership, technical and operating direction, people development, and disciplined execution across assigned paper machine operations. The Process Manager leads through International Paper values and operating expectations, strengthens Safe Align and SIF-prevention behaviors, builds operator and Team Leader capability, and coordinates cross-functional resources to achieve mill objectives.

• Safety, Health & Environmental Leadership:
  Demonstrate visible safety leadership where the work occurs; reinforce speak-up and stop-work expectations; verify critical controls for SIF exposures; ensure environmental requirements, permits, and operating boundaries are understood and followed; and support learning and corrective-action closure following incidents, near misses, and operating events.
• Operational Execution:
  Support safe startups, shutdowns, grade changes, troubleshooting, and recovery from abnormal conditions. Establish priorities, clarify ownership, maintain effective shift handoffs, and ensure operating decisions balance safety, quality, production, reliability, and cost.
• Process Performance & Quality:
  Own assigned process performance and operating discipline. Monitor key process and quality indicators, identify emerging risks, coordinate timely response, and lead structured problem solving to reduce variability, waste, breaks, defects, and repeat losses.
• Reliability & Asset Stewardship:
  Partner with Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Process Control, and Operations to improve equipment performance. Reinforce Basic Care, reliable work processes, defect elimination, work identification, root-cause learning, and sustained corrective actions.
• People Leadership & Capability:
  Coach Team Leaders, Crew Coordinators, operators, and emerging leaders. Support qualification progress, succession readiness, cross-training, feedback, accountability, and fair, consistent application of company expectations and policies.
• Shutdown & Outage Leadership:
  Coordinate scope development, operational readiness, risk reviews, staffing, lockout and critical-control planning, startup readiness, and execution of paper machine shutdown plans. Support post-outage review and capture lessons learned.
• Business Results & Continuous Improvement:
  Translate mill priorities into practical action plans. Use data, standard work, Reliable Methods, daily management, and structured problem solving to improve safety, quality, reliability, productivity, and cost performance.
• Cross-Functional Coordination & Communication:
  Maintain strong working relationships across Paper Machines, Fiberline, Maintenance, P&C, Reliability, Engineering, Environmental, Safety, Quality, Logistics, and Human Resources. Escalate risk promptly and communicate decisions, priorities, and results clearly across shifts and departments.
• Administrative & Policy Support:
  Assist the Superintendent and Team Leaders with staffing, scheduling, timecard review, vacation and floater coordination, training coverage, workforce planning, and consistent administration of company policies and people processes.

• Lead with humility, credibility, consistency, and respect; listen with intent and follow through on commitments.
• Be present in the field, understand conditions at the point of work, and engage teammates in identifying and controlling risk.
• Make timely, fact-based…