What are the responsibilities and job description for the Area Maintenance Systems Leader position at Sappi?
Description
Description
We’re looking for a Area Maintenance Systems Leader to join our Paper Machine 4 (PM4) Team at the Cloquet Mill. This position plays a key role in ensuring safety, reliability, and performance across Paper Manufacturing. As a core member of the team, you’ll lead maintenance strategies, support production goals, and drive continuous improvement in a high-impact environment.
Key Responsibilities
This is more than a maintenance role—it’s a leadership opportunity in a dynamic, team-driven environment. If you thrive on solving technical challenges, improving systems, and helping people grow, we’d love to hear from you
Salary is determined by a number of factors including the value of the job to the organization, market forces, internal equity and skills brought to the job.
Sappi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Sappi complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Description
We’re looking for a Area Maintenance Systems Leader to join our Paper Machine 4 (PM4) Team at the Cloquet Mill. This position plays a key role in ensuring safety, reliability, and performance across Paper Manufacturing. As a core member of the team, you’ll lead maintenance strategies, support production goals, and drive continuous improvement in a high-impact environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Champion a Safety First culture by leading through example and engaging the team in safety initiatives.
- Serve as the primary liaison between PM4 Operations, Maintenance, and Contractors, owning the asset care strategy and maintenance coordination for the equipment and infrastructure of the utilities department.
- Prioritize daily work, taking into consideration risk, budget and operational needs. Collaborate with maintenance stakeholders to ensure the mill work management system processes are followed.
- Lead the coordination of minor maintenance outages. Support major outage activities.
- Oversee the department’s maintenance budget, including forecasting, tracking, and cost control.
- Lead reliability improvement initiatives aimed at increasing uptime, reducing variability, and lowering costs.
- Troubleshoot and resolve equipment, process, and quality issues.
- Implement and optimize preventive and reliability-based maintenance practices.
- Support capital projects, process improvements, and team development activities.
- Provide leadership and coaching to maintenance and operational teams to build technical and leadership capability.
- Strong experience with and knowledge of Paper Machine operations and maintenance.
- Experience managing contractors, from scope development through execution and final invoicing.
- Familiarity with maintenance systems—planning, scheduling, lockout/tagout, and backlog management.
- Supervisory or team leadership experience preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (especially Excel), PI systems, and CMMS platforms (SAP preferred).
- Background in preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to enhance equipment reliability.
- Budgeting, cost forecasting, and project management experience.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and team-building skills.
This is more than a maintenance role—it’s a leadership opportunity in a dynamic, team-driven environment. If you thrive on solving technical challenges, improving systems, and helping people grow, we’d love to hear from you
Salary is determined by a number of factors including the value of the job to the organization, market forces, internal equity and skills brought to the job.
Sappi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Sappi complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.