Maintenance Manager position for International Paper - Cedar Rapids, IOWA #60407169
Description: Pay level varies based on experience.
The Maintenance Team Leader will be responsible for managing day to day
maintenance issues, planning for the next few weeks, and achieving mill
goals. The activities will promote maintenance team member involvement
in safety and reliability of people, equipment and processes. Provide
active and visible support for the mill safety programs as the highest
priority.
• Provide effective leadership of the maintenance team.
• Manage total preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Works with the Maintenance Planner to update and maintain Bill of
Materials, spare parts, and task lists.
• Manage all aspects of department safety and training.
• Assure that high housekeeping standards are consistently
maintained.
• Work in a team relationship with production and maintenance
personnel to prioritize tasks.
• Perform quality performance and development discussions with team
members (1-on-1’s).
• Maintain plant equipment and the overall facility to assure
overall reliability of equipment.
• Active participation in the Root Cause Failure Analysis Process.
• Ensure quality work is performed by the team members.
• Be actively involved in mill safety program. Proactively lead
the Optimization Team to help meet safety goals and objectives.
• Deliver scheduled outages on time and on budget.
• Strive to reduce unscheduled mechanical and electrical downtime.
• Develops, maintains, and uses reliable methods for all processes
and improvements.
• Assists other team members in the mill as necessary.
• Maintains and develops team relationships.
• Develops cross-functional process skills.
• Must be able to wear all required personal safety equipment
including eye protection, hearing protection and fall protection in
elevated positions.
• Noise levels in excess of 90 dB.
• Heat in excess of 100°F occasionally for extended periods of work
day.
• Participate in Optimization weekend duty rotation.
• Ability to climb stairs, ladders, into and onto tanks and other
vessels; kneel, crouch, bend and twist while working on equipment.
• Walking: Within immediate area and up and down several floors.
Minimum:
• 3-5 years of industrial, maintenance experience and industrial
maintenance related post-secondary education combined.
• Mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation system experience.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety.
• Demonstrated ability to be a team player by being open to other
ideas, valuing the strengths of others, remaining flexible, shows
compassion and is a positive advocate of others.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities to meet both internal and
external customer needs.
• Demonstrated effective facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proactive in follow-up and resolution of issues while holding
himself/herself and others accountable.
• Makes good decisions in a timely manner based upon a mixture of
analysis, experience and judgment.
• MS Office, Network Applications.
Preferred:
• Post high school education.
• Engineering degree in some Industrial Technological field.
• High Performance Work Systems experience.
• Paper mill experience and process knowledge.
• Ability to resolve conflict between team members.
• Previous leadership experience.
• Maintenance job planning experience.
Action Oriented: Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of
energy for the things that he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of
acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than
others.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates
strong morale and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes;
fosters open dialogue, lets people finish and be responsible for their
work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of
belonging in the team.
Conflict Management: Steps up to conflicts and sees them as
opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening; can
hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find
common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise.
Confronting Direct Reports and Others: Deals with problem direct
reports firmly and in a timely manner; doesn’t allow problems to fester;
regularly reviews performance and holds timely discussions; can make
negative decisions when all other efforts fail; deals effectively with
troublemakers.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and
requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand
customer information and uses it for improvements in products and
services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains
effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and
respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift
gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture;
isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things
before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Delegation: Clearly and comfortably delegates both routine and
important tasks and decisions; broadly shares both responsibility and
accountability; tends to trust people to perform; lets direct reports
finish their own work.
Developing Direct Reports: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and
assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each
person’s career goals; constructs compelling development plans and
executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on
those who need help and further development; cooperates with the
developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is
constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line
oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Integrity and Trust: Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful
individual; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and
helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent
him/herself for personal gain.
Listening: Practices attentive and active listening; has the patience
to hear people out; can accurately restate the opinions of others even
when he/she disagrees.
Motivating Others: Creates a climate in which people want to do their
best; can motivate many kinds of direct reports and team or project
members; can assess each person’s hot button and use it to get the best
out of him/her; pushes tasks and decisions down; empowers others;
invites input from each person and shares ownership and visibility;
makes each individual feel his/her work is important; is someone people
like working for and with.
Problem Solving: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult
problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for
answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks
beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answer.
Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands
how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flows; knows what
to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and
integration where others can’t; can simplify complex processes; gets
more out of fewer resources.
Timely Decision Making: Makes decisions in a timely manner, sometimes
with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure; able
to make a quick decision.
Apply at www.ipaper.jobs
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International Paper is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/W/D/V
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