Job Description

Position Title:

Mill Reliability Leader

Pay Rate:

$118,400 - $173,600

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time Exempt

Physical Location:

Vicksburg Mill (Redwood, MS)

The Job You Will Perform (including but not limited to):

The Mill Reliability Leader is the lead reliability position in the facility and will manage the Reliability organization and efforts across the entire Mill. The Mill Reliability Leader is responsible for developing a team of highly skilled reliability engineers, predictive maintenance technicians, HVAC technicians and lubrication technicians. The Reliability team is responsible for successfully executing all reliability elements, including RCFA process, predicting and preventing failures, PM/PdM techniques and equipment care, precision maintenance, lubrication excellence, and world class MWS processes.

The Mill Reliability Leader tracks key reliability metrics and communicates to the entire mill organization the fundamental systems and behaviors that must be in place to drive continuous improvement in mill results. This position is a key role in the Maintenance & Engineering leadership team, and reports to the Maintenance & Engineering Manager.

Key Accountabilities:

• Responsibilities include all aspects of equipment care, predictive maintenance Reduce unscheduled downtime to world class levels, increase equipment life
• Develop and maintain equipment criticalities used in the operating areas
• Maintain strong relationships with the Maintenance and Operations Business Unit managers, Area managers, and First Line Leaders, and challenge the organization to continuously improve reliability systems and behaviors
• RCFA system owner for equipment failures and implementing corrective actions
• Mill-wide PCF Champion, identify and eliminate chronic problems
• Equipment care development leader, with heavy influence on inspectors' activities, routes, and ability to identify early failure indicators using proven techniques
• Development of Reliability professionals
• Influence operations to assure proper operation of equipment, basic care, and early identification of problems
• Introduce new reliability technologies and predictive techniques
• Seek out best practices across the corporation and implement locally
• Maintain Reliability Action Plan
• Weekend Duty assignment
• All other duties as assigned

The Skills You Will Bring:

• A bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering is preferred
• 10+ years of operations, maintenance, and/or engineering experience in a paper-manufacturing environment.
• Qualified candidates have a high level of understanding of reliability principles, are knowledgeable in CMMS systems, competent in using Lean tools such as RCFA.
• Good communication skills (written and verbal) are required.Top of Form

The Benefits You Will Enjoy:

International Paper offers a benefits package that includes health, welfare and retirement plans including Medical, Dental, Life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short-term and Long-term Disability, 401(k), Company-funded retirement contributions, Paid Time Off, Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement), Student Loan Repayment Assistance, and Voluntary Benefits including insurance for home, auto, vision and pets

The Career You Will Build:
Leadership training, promotional opportunities

The Impact You Will Make:
We continue to build a better future for people, the planet, and our company! IP has been a good steward of sustainable practices across communities around the world for more than 125 years. Join our team and you'll see why our team members say they're Proud to be IP.

The Culture You Will Experience:
International Paper promotes employee well-being by providing safe, caring and inclusive workplaces. We have team members all around the world with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. These are our strengths. We are committed to creating a culture where all individuals are respected, valued, engaged and have an opportunity to do their best work every day. We invite you to bring your uniqueness, creativity, talents, experiences, and safety mindset to be a part of our increasingly inclusive and diverse culture.