Business Unit Leader

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking a Business Unit Leader for our First Quality Tissue facility located in Anderson, SC. Business Unit Leader are responsible for providing leadership to the business unit to include overall performance with the goal of improving departmental efficiencies and lowering operating costs while ensuring compliance with government mandates and FQT systems. Provide leadership and guidance to the business unit leaders responsible for crew performance, maintenance coordination, and continuous improvement in order to meet or exceed Safety, Quality, Speed, Efficiency, Waste, and Cost objectives. Own the team’s overall performance results.

Come join a high performance team, where our Culture defines who we are. We have built a community upon a foundation of Humanity, Core Business Philosophy, and Working Together. This means putting our team members and customers first. We have invested in the latest technology and resources to support a business that will last for generations.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Promote an action-oriented safety culture embracing safety as a core value, instilling and exemplifying a safety mindset for all team members resulting in an incident free workplace

• Comply with, and be a role model for, all First Quality Safety, policies, guidelines, and procedures

• Demonstrate business and leadership acumen

• Drive business strategy and vision and promote positive change with the entire workforce

• Organize, prioritize and lead business unit to solve tactical and strategic opportunities

• Maintain a constructive working relationship with other departments in order to efficiently resolve cross department issues

• Apply comprehensive knowledge and full understanding of the paper making and/or converting process

• Instill mindset of "sense of urgency" and a "results driven" culture

• Provide leadership to support a continuous improvement culture focused on manufacturing fundamentals and manufacturing excellence

• Primary person responsible for coordinating with HR to ensure investigation processes are followed in team member incidents

• Primary person responsible for all safety & environmental incidents and ensure appropriate countermeasures are identified and completed on time

• Ensure teams are compliant in key areas of Safety, Quality, Production and Skill Development

• Ensure best practices are communicated and implemented across business units utilizing Management of Change and Improvement Idea processes

• Owner of production targets and forecasts

• Owner of business unit’s quality results

• Ensure the reliability work system is executed with collaboration between operating and maintenance teams

• Manage spending to budget

• Manage overtime and labor effectiveness

• Owner of Capital plan and execution of approved projects on time

• Owner of extraordinary maintenance plan

• Ensure waste is at or below standard

• Ensure inventory accuracy at or above target

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in technical or business management field preferred.

• Minimum 7 years of experience with Paper Manufacturing or Converting required, TAD experience preferred.

• Experience in a lean manufacturing environment preferred.

• Demonstrates good leadership qualities – accountability, credibility, trust.

• Standard knowledge of OSHA laws and regulations within the manufacturing field.

• SAP knowledge preferred.

• Employs excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Possesses excellent time management and organizational skills.

• Analytical thought process by identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums
• ...and more!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.