Maintenance Area Process Manager

Position Title: 

Maintenance Area Process Manager

Pay Rate:

$87,600 - $116,800

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

Category:

Salary full-time (exempt)

Physical Location:

International Paper – Columbus Mill

4335 Carson Road

Columbus, MS  39701

The Job You Will Perform:

Our Columbus Cellulose Fibers location in Columbus, Mississippi has an immediate opening for a Maintenance APM.  This position is responsible for improving overall mill performance by increasing equipment uptime and reducing end of life failures between outages.  The primary area of responsibility will be from the digester through the finishing area.

• Be a role model and champion for an injury-free work place
• Analyze chronic equipment failures and high maintenance/cost equipment.  Use “Failure Analysis” to systematically understand failures by determining and documenting the root cause.  Develop and implement solutions to prevent repeat failures.
• Analyze maintenance-related downtime weekly to fully understand the source of the downtime and ensure appropriate level of response is taken to eliminate repeat issues.
• Provide technical “go to” support in solving day-to-day production and maintenance problems
• Champion the preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Maintain Mechanical Integrity program and procedures for Process Safety Management
• Provide input to area maintenance budgets for major maintenance items and optimizations
• Analyze financial service cost vs. target and address equipment not delivering targeted cost performance.
• Develop long term maintenance plan for rotating equipment, rebuilds and major maintenance
• Estimate, plan and manage maintenance projects to budget for routine work, quarterly outages and major outages.
• Provide capital and expense project design, development and execution
• Provide contractor work management and coordination for routine and major shutdown jobs per mill standards using best engineering practices

The Skills You Will Bring:

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Be a role model and champion for an injury-free work place
• Analyze chronic equipment failures and high maintenance/cost equipment.  Use “Failure Analysis” to systematically understand failures by determining and documenting the root cause.  Develop and implement solutions to prevent repeat failures.
• Analyze maintenance-related downtime weekly to fully understand the source of the downtime and ensure appropriate level of response is taken to eliminate repeat issues.
• Provide technical “go to” support in solving day-to-day production and maintenance problems
• Champion the preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Maintain Mechanical Integrity program and procedures for Process Safety Management
• Provide input to area maintenance budgets for major maintenance items and optimizations
• Analyze financial service cost vs. target and address equipment not delivering targeted cost performance.
• Develop long term maintenance plan for rotating equipment, rebuilds and major maintenance
• Estimate, plan and manage maintenance projects to budget for routine work, quarterly outages and major outages.
• Provide capital and expense project design, development and execution
• Provide contractor work management and coordination for routine and major shutdown jobs per mill standards using best engineering practices

Required Qualifications:

• BS (minimum) in Mechanical or Metallurgical Engineering
• Minimum 3 years of reliability/maintenance engineering experience in continuous process industry preferably kraft pulp manufacturing
• Knowledge and experience in Maintenance Best Practices
• Working knowledge of ASME, NBIC and API codes and OSHA regulations
• Extensive knowledge of rotating equipment, pressure vessels, piping systems, and atmospheric storage tanks
• Use of precision measurement tools and assembly techniques
• Able to teach others
• Interpersonal skills necessary to work within a diverse organization
• Able to work in a high-performance team environment
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, organizational and planning skills, facilitations skills, computer skills and the ability to achieve results through others
• Willingness to work extended hours, particularly during scheduled outages

Competencies:

• Drive for results
• Interpersonal skills
• Technical & functional skills
• Planning
• Organizing

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 within a global company.