Overview

The Operations Manager is responsible for managing the safety, reliability, cost, quality, productivity, and employee engagement in a goal-oriented environment. The position is responsible for the operations of the Solvay Mill and reports to the General Manager.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to mill personnel to ensure overall safe operations by driving toward a 100% safe work environment by leading safety culture, systems, and processes.• Facilitate an environment where safety is our priority.• Effectively manage production performance.• Effectively create an environment of teamwork.• Planning and controlling production performance.• Troubleshooting quality and operational issues and developing systems and structures to avoid reoccurrences.• Establish high level of performance by setting key departmental goals and objectives.• Monitoring compliance with standard operating procedures.• Ensuring quality systems are supported, in place, and comply with required customer specifications.• Identifying long term departmental improvement opportunities.• Ensure environmental compliance with federal, state, and local statutes, and environmental standards.• Operate in a manner that meets customer expectations.• Support Continuous Improvement activities and champion the overall improvement of the mill’s cost position.• Supports the development of operational forecasts and budgets to improve mill profitability.• Drives systematic improvement in mill operations and other mill processes like communications, safety, quality, employee engagement.• Develop leaders through training, stretch assignments, feedback, the performance management process, etc.• Build positive relations with employees based on the client's values of Integrity, Respect, Accountability and Excellence.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline is highly preferred.• Minimum 10 years of experience in Pulp and Paper manufacturing leadership roles preferred.• Strong leader with demonstrated communication skills and a high sense of urgency and attention to detail.• Ability to direct continuous improvement in all areas, but with special emphasis on safety, environmental, quality, production, and cost.• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with employees at all levels of the organization. • Must have excellent oral and written communications skills.• Excellent problem-solving skills.• Excellent planning, organizational, time management and prioritization skills.• Proficient computer skills (MS Office, MS Project, JD Edwards, Panther, etc.).

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