Primary Purpose

Oversee all production staff with primary responsibility for reliable operations. Maintain high safety standards, adhere to quality requirements, maximize productivity and manage a high-performance team. Accomplish this through the continued maturation of the Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) process.

Key Accountabilities

Health, Safety & Environmental Leadership

Create a culture where the safety of our people and our environment stewardship are priorities over production

• Engage in daily safety conversations with team leaders and crew members to always keep safety top of mind

• Actively promote the SafeStart program and monitor adherence

• Perform "safety observations" to ensure specific safety rules, procedures, housekeeping, proactive accident prevention and conscious safety behaviours are adhered to and enforced if necessary

• Audit the Housekeeping & Fire Prevention Clean and Inspect (CI) processes and provide feedback to the shift teams. Drive ownership of the processes to the supervisors and crews.

• Actively participate in inquiries from the JHSC and ensure follow up measures and goals are achieved through the JHSC

TPM Leadership

Create a culture where we embrace and implement TPM methodologies enabling our capability to achieve a world class OEE targets

• Champion TPM principles across the operations team, driving employee engagement in ownership of equipment upkeep and performance improvement including; break down analysis (BDA), root cause analysis (RCA), clean inspect & lubricate activities (CIL), focussed improvements (FI), and/or kaizen events.
• Facilitate TPM training for superintendents and supervisors.
• Attend daily and weekly operations review (DOR & WOR) meetings to check performance metrics, identify issues, and develop corrective actions.
• Actively participate in the monthly review of site objectives, goals, strategies, and metrics (OGSM) and contribute to the development of the annual plan

Team Leadership

Create a culture where our people want to come to work, enjoy working together, and share a sense of belonging

• Manage performance of direct reports by setting expectations, providing feedback, supporting development and issuing recognition, in alignment with site OGSM and the corporate performance management program
• Ensure consitent application of mill rules, procedures and attendance guidelines – coach and support shift supervisors to maintain high standards of professionalism and fairness.
• Monitor team performance and reward accomplishments through celebrations and recognition (both individual and group).
• Conduct routine individual performance reviews with direct reports
• Manage team vacation schedules to ensure reliable coverage and support is always available.
• Collaborate with the Sales, Scheduling, Shipping, Maintenance, Procurement and Accounting Departments as required to maintain relationships based on mutual respect

Quality Leadership

Create a culture where we strive to meet cutomer expectations on paper quality and workmanship

• Maintain an active awareness of new technological developments of relevance to the mill's processes
• Monitor current & evolving customer quality expectations to ensure the mill is capable of meeting current expectations and develops a plan to meet future requirements.
• Work synergistically with the Project Engineering Department to plan process modifications and machine upgrades to improve product quality, production throughput, and safety.

Cost Leadership

Build a culture of cost awareness to enable our core value of acting like a business owner.

• Identify areas within the Production Operation where operating costs can be reduced and lead initiatives to realize the savings.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Engineering or business administration degree, or a related field (preferred).

Experience

• 5 plus years of experience in a high production environment
• 5 plus years of managerial experience

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Strong leadership skills, independent thinking, strong organizational and planning abilities and excellent analytical and problem solving skills are essential
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
• Exhibit a sense of urgency and demonstrates the ability to problem solve in a fast paced environment
• Knowledge of TPM, six sigma, lean and ISO is an asset

Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Drive for Results
• Leadership
• Teamwork
• Think and Act like an Owner

Nature and Scope

• Impact: high impact on production results
• Contacts: collaborate with other departmental leaders within the Mill and corporate functions
• Leadership / Level of Responsibility: oversees multiple levels and direct reports
• Freedom to Act / Decision-Making Authority: medium – apply decision making for daily production operations
• Physical and Sensory Demands: attention to detail, listening attentively
• Working Environment: Paper Mill production environment