Mill Maintenance Operations Coordinator

New-indy Catawba Llc; Catawba (SC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

New-indy Catawba Llc is seeking an Operations Maintenance Coordinator to lead and support the Operations Managers and shift supervisors in ensuring reliable maintenance of the mill’s Finished Products Area.

The role requires collaboration across operations and maintenance, prioritizing and coordinating work, and ensuring proper permits and lockouts are in place for safe maintenance activities.

Qualifications

• Four-year engineering degree or equivalent operational experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Solid understanding of the operation of an integrated pulp & paper mill.
• Strong kraft pulping process knowledge.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multiple functions.
• Demonstrated leadership and supervisory experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build and sustain trust.
• Ability to balance priorities to meet short and long-term goals.

Responsibilities

• Reviews work order priorities, including emergency and break-in work orders, based on knowledge of product demand, management direction and operational expectations.
• Approves or rejects all maintenance work requests.
• Determine jobs that can and should be handled by operations.
• Coordinates maintenance work execution between operations and maintenance.
• Determine whether jobs require an equipment shutdown.
• Adjusts priorities of scheduled work-in-progress to execute emergency or break-in work.
• Coordinates required housekeeping for maintenance work.
• Coordinates lockouts and tag-outs of equipment for maintenance work.
• Coordinates required permits for confined space entry and hot work.
• Communicates directly with maintenance in the planning of work in the backlog that is not ready to be scheduled.
• Communicates directly with maintenance supervision, team leaders and crafts in the scheduling of work that has been planned is ready to be scheduled.

Skills

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership & supervisory experience

Written and verbal communication

Trust-building

Priority balancing

Education

Four-year engineering degree

Job description

New-indy Catawba Llc is seeking an Operations Maintenance Coordinator to lead and support the Operations Managers and shift supervisors in ensuring reliable maintenance of the mill’s Finished Products Area.

The role requires collaboration across operations and maintenance, prioritizing and coordinating work, and ensuring proper permits and lockouts are in place for safe maintenance activities.