Outage Planner (Escanaba, MI)

Job Description

At Billerud we believe that when we have tomorrow in mind, we will do our very best today. It is thanks to our employees that we are a world-leading company within the field of renewable paper and packaging materials. Do you want to realize your true value and work for a sustainable tomorrow? Join us!

Summary Description

The primary responsibility of this position is to effectively plan, coordinate, and schedule production outages, to insure efficient execution of the required repair work. This involves coordinating across production areas to ensure maximum efficiency of staffing and utilization of production downtime, as well as developing the necessary cost forecasting and outage schedules. This person is responsible for all Bi-Monthly and Annual Area Outages.

Qualifications

Key Accountabilities:

• Plan, prioritize and schedule maintenance work orders including material needs, safety information, appropriate maintenance history and critical information to complete jobs safely and efficiently.
• Field work as required to ensure the quality of maintenance work.
• Process material requests and expedite as necessary to ensure that parts are on hand when needed.
• Work with Operations and Maintenance Supervision to prioritize and schedule maintenance work.
• Provide support for maintenance planned machine shutdowns including critical path charts.
• Provide support for maintenance emergency unplanned work orders.
• Evolve reliability work from reactionary to a proactive condition-based maintenance process including the creation of new preventative maintenance plans in SAP.
• Ensure that maintenance work is carried out at a minimum cost in labor, materials and lost production.
• Maintain harmonious relations with employees by administering contract provisions and company policies.
• Create and maintain functional locations, equipment and bill of materials in SAP.
• Administer requisitions and service entries in SAP.
• Hires and manages contract maintenance resources in area of responsibility.
• Provide weekend coverage of all mill maintenance operations as scheduled.
• Interacts with key operational stakeholders on outage planning and execution activities.
• Facilitate and ensure contractor procurement activities conform to “T” minus schedules. Includes detailed scope development, RFQ development and awards.
• Coordinates outage contractor resources and interfaces with operations and maintenance.
• Ensure the proper application of construction and maintenance resources to insure their efficient utilization on the outage right priorities
  
  

Personal qualities

Required Experience And Education

Minimum Required Experience and Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or other relevant engineering degree and 3-5 years’ experience in maintenance or engineering in an industrial facility, OR equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
  
  

Travel: Negotiable

Required Skills

Minimum Required Skills:

• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of industrial equipment and components such as pumps, motors, bearings, refrigeration systems, compressors, piping systems, etc.
• Understanding of maintenance and repair work processes (MWS)
• Strong computer skills; prefer SAP, Microsoft applications and CMMS systems
  
  

Application information

Billerud NA is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.

Why us?

At Billerud, you’ll be part of a collaborative, forward thinking team dedicated to shaping a more sustainable future. We’re committed to supporting your growth, well being, and long term success.

• Impactful Work – Contribute to meaningful sustainability initiatives.
• Career Growth – Access development programs and internal advancement opportunities.
• Education Support – Tuition reimbursement certificate programs through partner schools.
• Competitive Compensation – Performance based bonus eligibility (role dependent).
• Comprehensive Benefits –
• Multiple medical plans with virtual care options
• Generous 401(k) offerings
• HSA contribution match additional preventive exam contribution
• Dental & vision coverage
• Company paid disability insurance
• Prescription benefits
  
  

Our recruitment process may include interviews, recruitment testing, reference checks, and alcohol & drug testing

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Do you want to help create a sustainable future through your work?

At Billerud, we are fully committed to reduce our and our customers carbon footprint by offering high-performance paper and packaging materials. We are convinced that the right solutions can be important tools to help fight climate change. That's why we see it as our responsibility to enable the best packaging choices, for a better tomorrow.

Our proud history in the forestry and paper industry goes back more than 150 years. Since then, we’ve grown to what we are today: a world leading company in high-performing paper and packaging materials - passionately committed to sustainability, quality, and customer value. Our materials are the basis of packaging and paper products used by millions of people around the world, 24 hours a day, all year round.

We serve customers in more than 100 countries through our three business areas Liquid Packaging Board, Paper and Paper Board. Our nine production units are located in Sweden, USA, and Finland and we have around 5,200 employees in 16 countries. Our annual turnover is approximately SEK 40.5 billion and the share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. At Billerud we always put safety first, care for each other, and do what we say.

Join us in redefining sustainable packaging and drive meaningful change for a better tomorrow.