Maintenance Planning Superintendent

Smurfit-Westrock; Longview (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive training

Competitive salary

Health, dental, vision insurance

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock in Washington is seeking a Planning Superintendent to lead maintenance planning for the mill. You will create safe, complete work packages and coordinate with maintenance crews to improve reliability and performance.

The role requires a engineering degree with 7+ years and supervisory experience. The salary ranges from $120,375 to $200,625, with comprehensive benefits and a focus on safety, cost control, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field with 7+ years of experience.
• Experience in the paperboard industry preferred.
• Supervisory or management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety systems and processes to meet annual goals.
• Develop and manage the mill’s maintenance budget and forecast spends.
• Coordinate routine work, outages, and multi-year outage planning.
• Improve PM processes and KPI reporting in the planning department.
• Ensure compliance with safety policies and company guidelines.

Skills

Engineering degree

7+ years experience

Supervisory experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

The Opportunity:

The Planning Superintendent manages and is responsible for the Mill’s planned maintenance activities. The objective is to continually improve the performance, availability, and reliability of mill production equipment. The Planning Superintendent will ensure and deliver complete, safe, and accurate planned work packages for the maintenance crews for effective precision maintenance repairs. The Planning Superintendent reports directly to the mill Maintenance Manager.

How you will impact Smurfit Westrock:

• Lead safety systems and processes that support achieving our continually improving annual goals.
• Develops and manages the mill’s maintenance budget, including supporting cost tracking and providing routine and long rate maintenance spend forecasting. This position also plays an instrumental role in identifying scheduling opportunities and cost reduction opportunities to improve the mill cost competitiveness. Collaboratively manages costs to meet mill maintenance budgeted spend.
• Develops action plans to address maintenance inefficiencies and repeat equipment failures.
• Coordinates routine work, minor outages, annual and multi-year cold mill outage planning efforts.
• Facilitates improvement projects within the operating area focusing on maintenance objectives.
• Interfaces with all operating departments.
• Supports RCA efforts and reliability projects to ensure efficient facility operation.
• Improve efficiency and effectiveness of the planning department by analyzing the processes and utilizing all available tools, technology, and outside resources. This includes developing and managing KPI’s to ensure that the planning department is effectively providing complete work packages and job plans.
• Works closely with supervisors and superintendents to improve PM’s in the mill.
• Ensures activities follow mill, company, state, and federal policies and guidelines as it relates to the safety of employees and the execution of work.
• Invests and develops department members to operate at their full potential. Leads behaviors within organizational boundaries to maintain a culture embedded in professionalism, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, respect, and trust.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred or related field with 7+ years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience within the paperboard industry preferred.
• Supervisory or management experience is preferred.

How you will impact Smurfit Westrock :

• Safety – Exhibits strong competencies in Safety Mindset and has a thorough understanding of safety policies and procedures.
• Ability to Execute – Targets and achieves results, sets and accomplishes challenging goals, prioritizes and manages tasks effectively, maintains an organized system to monitor progress, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability, sets standards and responsibilities.
• Champion of & Adaptor to Change – Drives for continuous improvement while managing expectations and results. Able to quickly adapt to changing circumstances and accelerates the change within themselves, their work group, or the organization; challenges the status quo and creatively identifies opportunities for improvement. Demonstrates a constant commitment to do things better.
• Customer Focused – Understands and works to meet customer requirements. Listens to and responds to customer’s needs; builds relationships with and gains trust of customer by always meeting commitments.
• Decision Making/Judgment – Recognizes problems and responds by systematically gathering information and weighing options. Able to sort through complex issues, seeks input from others and addresses root cause of issues. Makes timely and accurate decisions. Uses consensus when possible and clearly communicates decisions to others.
• Managing/Measuring Work – Clearly assigns responsibility for tasks and decisions; sets clear objectives and measures; monitors process, progress, and results; designs feedback loops into work.
• Initiative – Tackles problems and takes independent action. Seeks out new responsibilities, acts on opportunities, generates new ideas, practices self-development, and demonstrates a bias for action without being prompted.
• Problem Solving/Analysis – Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues. Can simplify and process complex issues and information, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts, can analyze data/information and draw accurate conclusions.
• Influence & Persuasion – Able to exhibit a ‘can-do’ approach and inspire associates to excel, uses competition to encourage others, develops performance standards and confronts negative attitudes. Develops a team spirit and uses tact when expressing ideas or opinions. Presents new ideas to authority figures and adapts presentations to suit a particular audience. Responds to objections successfully.
• Quality – Attentive to detail and accuracy; is committed to excellence. Continuously looks for improvements, seeks opportunities to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
• Integrity – Able to be tactful, maintain confidences, and foster an ethical work environment. Prevents inappropriate behavior by coworkers, give proper credit to others and handles all situations honestly.
• Communication – Able to clearly present information through spoken or written word; read and interpret complex information; talks with employees, customers, and supplies, and has strong listening skills.

Compensation Offered

• Bonus/Commission Eligible: Yearly Short-Term Incentive Program (STIP) Bonus based off metrics

Benefits Offered

Smurfit Westrock offers a variety of benefits and group health insurance options, the premium costs of which are currently shared by employees and Smurfit 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.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

The salary range for this position is $120,375.00 - $200,625.00, depending on your role, level, and location. The range listed is also the expected pay for roles in Illinois and Colorado. The benefits for this role include short-term bonus incentive, health, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts or health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid sick leave as required by applicable state/local law, 15 days of paid vacation, and 11 days of paid holidays, subject to annual change. Your pay will be based on factors such as your skills, experience, and education.