Operations Manager

What You’ll Do:

Manage the overall operation of a world-class 100% Recycle facility.

What You’ll Need:

• Leadership skills: Lead by example, mentoring, and exhibiting behaviors that are consistent with the company’s values.
• Provide formal supervision to individual employees within single functional or operational areas.
• Plan and monitor appropriate staffing levels and utilization of labor, including overtime.
• Provide recommendations regarding staff recruitment, selection, promotion, advancement, corrective action, and termination.
• Prepare and/or deliver performance appraisal for staff.
• Provides daily communication to the management team.
• Transfer knowledge to salaried staff and prepare them for future advancement opportunities. 
• The desire to ultimately be a mill manager.

What You’ll Do on a Day-to-Day Basis:

• Oversee daily production with an emphasis on safety, reliability, cost, quality, and environmental issues.
• Implement short- and long-term strategies designed to: increase yield and operating efficiency, reduce cost, and improve reliability.
• Drive a culture change towards becoming a self-directed and reliability-focused organization. 
• Fluidly interface with team leaders, production and maintenance managers, operations and maintenance employees, engineering, union representatives, and customers
• Develop clear and achievable safety, environmental, cost and productivity improvements
• Lead and participate in continuous improvement initiatives and processes
• Manage development of the annual budget, production targets and cost reduction goals
• Work closely with departments to ensure goals are met
• Participate in the coordination of mill shutdowns and major project installations.
• Other duties as assigned

Nice to Have:

• Strong operational background with demonstrated technical skills.
• 10 years of high-speed papermaking experience.
• Good understanding of the operation of a recycle mill.
• Excellent leadership ability, including strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively across multiple functions.
• Supervisory experience including responsibility for paper machines.
• Demonstrated ability to balance priorities to meet short and long-term objectives.
• Ability to train/mentor direct reports to the next management level.
• Outstanding communication skills, the ability to recognize contributions, make effective presentations, and can quickly build trust and respect. 
• Possess an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering.

Job Specific Competencies:

• Ability to implement environmental standards, site compliance programs, and Company objectives at the site.
• Ability to provide employee training using multiple delivery methods and media.
• Ability to investigate and determine system root cause analysis.
• Ability to communicate effectively through oral and written communication to individuals and groups of diverse sizes.
• Ability to act appropriately in emergency situations.

Other things:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What you Should Know:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to handle or feel.
• The employee frequently is required to talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks:

Bonus

Benefits: 

• Medical, dental & vision coverage 
• Health Savings Account (HSA) option with company contribution 
• 401k plan & generous company match of 100$ match up to 6%.
• Short & Long-Term Disability coverage (company paid)  
• Life Insurance & AD&D coverage (company paid) 
• Flexible & Dependent Care Savings Account options 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• PTO: Sick and Vacation time
• 9 Paid Holidays

Who is New-Indy Containerboard? 

• Founded in 2012, New-Indy Containerboard is a joint venture of two successful, privately held companies, the Kraft Group (Boston) and Schwarz Partners (Indianapolis). 

• We are a manufacturer and supplier of containerboard and packaging. 

• With approximately 2,000 employees from Southern California to the coasts of the Carolinas, New-Indy plays an integral role in the everyday lives of people across the country and around the world through its innovative packaging solutions to serve the needs of every customer. 

• We operate in 8 U.S. states and in Mexico, with our own 4 paper mills and 6 packaging companies. 

• We focus on environmentally conscious manufacturing processes and facilities including 100% recycled fiber, co-generation power plants and waste-water treatment capabilities. 

• Visit our website at www.newindycontainerboard.com. Follow us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/new-indy-containerboard-llc/mycompany/ 

Does this sound good to you? If so, great! Click the link to apply for the position. We look forward to hearing from you!