Job Description

The Paper Mill Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for the leadership and management of the mechanical and electrical maintenance teams for the paper mill areas. Additionally, they have responsibility for the Reliability management. The Maintenance Superintendent also works closely with operations to identify issues and opportunities and to respond quickly to problems. The incumbent also works closely with Engineering and Operators for troubleshooting, maintenance, and project work. The Paper Mill Maintenance Superintendent reports to the Maintenance/Reliability/Engineering Manager.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Maintenance Superintendent will place emphasis on planning/scheduling, preventative/predictive maintenance, reliability, spare part availability and stocking level optimization to optimize equipment availability, minimize unplanned downtime and equipment failures, and maintain functional buildings and grounds
• Support operational goals and metrics for asset productivity, quality and safety
• Ensure that safety rules and regulations are well known, understood and applied and equipment meets safety guidelines and regulations
• Initiates, implements and manages the plant Maintenance Work Order System and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to prioritize, plan, and schedule maintenance work efficiently while minimizing maintenance cost and equipment downtime, as well as identify improvement opportunities
• Initiates, implements and manages the plant Stores System to ensure part availability for planned maintenance work and unplanned/emergency repairs
• Prepares reports, analyzes data, make recommendations and implements maintenance activities for improving plant operations and solving maintenance related problems
• Works with Asset Leaders, Production Schedulers, Project Leaders, Maintenance Engineers to properly prioritize maintenance work and ensure proper maintenance resource allocation for allotted machine downs
• Initiates and implements programs to track, analyze and improve key maintenance metrics including asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance
• Ensure proper workmanship of team members, performance recognition and disciplinary actions, completes performance reviews to maintain compliance with HR requirements
• Respond to all unplanned and emergency downtime on equipment as required to efficiently and quickly resume operations
• Development and administration of the maintenance budget
• Manages the Facility, Building and Grounds Preventative Maintenance and Service contracts for the Manufacturing areas of responsibility
• Every employee must implement Kruger environmental policy in their daily tasks. In particular, employees are responsible to abide by legal and corporate environmental requirements, and must adhere to all environmental procedures. Every employee is responsible to report all environmental incidents and any potential environmental hazards. All supervisory personnel are responsible to ensure that their employees have the needed competencies to apply the operating procedures so that environmental controls are adequately implemented