Operations Maintenance Coordinator

Smurfit Westrock; Evadale (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock Evadale mill seeks an Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC) in Power and Recovery to lead maintenance planning and asset reliability. You will coordinate between production and maintenance, prioritize work, and drive zero-incident safety culture while controlling maintenance costs.

Requires engineering degree or equivalent with 8+ years in mill operations, strong knowledge of maintenance systems (SAP), and proven problem solving.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent operations or maintenance experience (8+ years).
• Understanding of mill processes affecting paper mill operations.
• Familiar with maintenance management systems (PM/CMMS) and reliability concepts.
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and decision-making skills.
• Proficient in SAP, MS Office, and project planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance coordination to ensure operating reliability.
• Prioritize work, manage backlogs, and plan outages.
• Coordinate shutdowns and lockout/tagout activities.
• Improve equipment reliability and reduce costs.
• Ensure safety policies and environmental compliance.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Team leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

SAP

MS Office

Job description

Description & Requirements

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.

Description & Requirements

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.

Position:

OMC in Power and Recovery

Job Code:

MOPOP3 + Sr. Specialist, Mfg Ops

Location:

Evadale, TX

The Opportunity

The Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC) in the Power & Recovery area of the paper mill provides leadership and support to the department managers and supervisors and ensures continuity of the operating assets, achieving department objectives, and facilitating sound business decisions. This role is responsible for the maintenance coordination required to maintain and ensure operating reliability as well as assisting in the cost control of the department’s maintenance and operations budget. The OMC, P&R Mill is the link between the production and maintenance departments. This role is responsible for prioritizing work, managing backlogs, and planning/scheduling maintenance outages. The customers for this role include production and maintenance. Other special assignments on major shutdowns, problem solving projects, and capital projects are also a responsibility of the role.

How You Will Impact Smurfit Westrock

• Accountable for an accident-free work environment by managing the department safety work order backlog and maintaining a zero quarterly backlog (within control). Coordinate scheduled shutdown and unscheduled outage lockout and tag out.
• Deliver operational excellence by coordinating activities between production and maintenance by prioritizing daily work, planning, scheduled shutdowns, managing maintenance backlogs, and manage/reduce breaks in work to ensure downtime in area is fully utilized to optimize the maintenance work while the area/assets are down.
• Responsible for improving area equipment reliability, craftsman efficiency, and minimizing costs.
• Understands and enforces mill safety policies and procedures and ensures that all employees are aware of and adhere to safety policies and procedures and takes the lead in LOTO, safety, and audit items which need both production and maintenance follow-up.
• Understands and enforces mill environmental policies, the state of Texas and Federal environmental laws and reports any environmental excursions as required.
• Serving as project originator for maintenance capital in asset area, including documentation.
• Being a technical resource for solving chronic and repeat failures with reliability engineer.
• Planning the installation and startup of new equipment to minimize the upset of normal operations.
• Provide leadership, development, and training and work with training resources to maintain detailed, structured on-the-job training manuals for department tasks and jobs.
• Promotes the Daily Management System (DMS) with team members and highlights areas of concerns while adhering to the DMS duties and performance within the department
• Seek personal development and growth and have ability to progress in role and responsibility.
• Working at the WestRock Evadale mill requires safety and health excellence. This means that the basic promise we make to one another as employees of the mill is to work safely, to do everything necessary so that everybody goes home safely every day. Every job includes consistently recognizing and controlling hazards and hazardous activities involving ourselves, and acting to stop unsafe actions of coworkers. Every job includes continually striving to improve our safety and health processes, including providing the tools and training necessary to safely perform our jobs.
• Responsible for conducting business with integrity and respect, being accountable, and actively pursuing excellence to help achieve Smurfit WestRock’s Path to One goal.

What You Need To Succeed

• Engineering degree or equivalent operations or maintenance experience of a minimum of 8 years.
• Fundamental understanding of mill processes affecting Paper Mill operations including base understanding of mechanical integrity of equipment and machinery.
• Knowledge of maintenance management principles including but not limited to precision maintenance, preventative maintenance, root cause failure analysis, shutdown and contingency planning, and computer-based maintenance work systems; desire to work with maintenance as a team.
• Must have strong analytical and diagnostic problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Familiar with statistical process control.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, and SAP
• Good oral and written communications skills, highly skilled in group communication as well as one to one communication. Ability to determine effective and appropriate means of communication.
• Aligned with our company values of Integrity, Respect, Accountability, and Excellence

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.
• Benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with match, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, employee referral bonus, and much more!
• A career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

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.