Operations Maintenance Coordinator - Finished Products

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

Job DetailsJob Location: Catawba Mill - Catawba, SC 29704Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: High School Diploma or EquivalentTravel Percentage: NoneJob Category: ManufacturingSUMMARY: The Operations Maintenance Coordinator role will provide leadership and support to the Operations Managers and shift supervisors to ensure continuity of the Finished Products Area. The Operations Maintenance Coordinator is responsible for the maintenance activities required for maintaining and ensuring the reliability of the mill in an efficient manner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND 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

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None.

QualificationsSKILLS AND 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.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to handle or feel.
• The employee frequently is required to talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The noise level in the work environment can be loud at times.
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts.
• May be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; vibrations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• No license requirement.

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.