Where you will work:The Cypress Bend facility is located in the historic Mississippi River Delta and produces bleached paperboard and bleached Kraft pulp, used in the production of folding cartons, commercial print paperboard, carded packaging, and cupstock. This facility boasts over 300 talented employees and stretches across 730 acres. Clearwater Paper employees are proud to manufacture a high-quality product for an essential industry.

Cypress Bend is a rural community with close access to the Mississippi River. This is a wonderful location for those who love the outdoors and offers plenty of activities including fishing, hiking, camping, and biking. The Cypress Bend area also offers several opportunities for social and civic involvement including the McGehee Hospital, McGehee Boys & Girls Club, Food Pantry, Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas City Food Pantry, Paws and Claws Humane Society, and the Polite Foundation. Cypress Bend emphasizes exposure to the arts including the WWII Japanese Internment Museum, Desha County Museum, and SEArk Concert Association. Cypress Bend is in close proximity to McGehee, Monticello, and Drew Central public schools as well as UAM McGehee College of Technology and WAM Crossett College of Technology.

What you will do:

Engineering Leadership

• Provides positive role model for all mill personnel in the area of safety, quality and productivity.
• Provides guidance, instruction and mentoring for the engineering staff on technical and business aspects of projects.
• Provides career development planning for engineering staff.
• Manages the site capital deployment strategy.
• Ensure adequate engineering tracking and reporting controls are being followed to evaluate the projects progress, schedule, and performance.
• Ensure engineering staff are tracking and communicating project status and key milestones to internal project stakeholders, adjust project plans, budget requests and or resources as required to meet project requirements.
• Provide assistance in overseeing construction efforts and assist with any troubleshooting or problem solving required to meet the design intent.
• Ensures drawings and design details of existing facility are up to date and all field modifications made during construction are accurately documented.
• Actively participates in site strategy development.
• Leads when necessary, troubleshooting efforts of significant equipment failures until the asset is up and running.
• Display and champion the Clearwater Paper Core Values · Influence management on strategic technical direction.
• Supports site in evaluating projects requiring outside engineering.
• Develops or enhances project tools and engineering guidelines used to standardize engineering practices as it pertains to project management and implementation.

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision-making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others’ knowledge and skills.
• Identifies barriers that impact customer service and retention; communicates concerns and recommendations to others.
• Uses understanding of customer needs and the organization’s customer service practices to set priorities, make decisions, and take actions that create customer satisfaction and prevent service issues from occurring.
• Creates relevant options for addressing problems and opportunities that will achieve desired outcomes.
• Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results.

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field preferred.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in paper mill maintenance, engineering, production management required.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in project management required.
• Functional understanding of predictive and preventive maintenance programs, work order systems and world-class maintenance systems is desired.
• Previous experience using a Computer Maintenance Management system preferred (e.g. JD Edwards).
• Must possess analytical troubleshooting skills.
• Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the ability to read, understand, and modify or develop project technical documentation across all technical disciplines.
• Knowledge of a variety of project contracting strategies.
• Continuous improvement/lean manufacturing experience preferred.
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Demonstrated ability to foster Continuous Improvement
• High speed manufacturing environment, sustained exposure to high frequency noises, multiple hours standing, walking on concrete surfaces.
• Personal Protective Equipment required in mill environment.
• Dirt, noise, odor, and temperature extremes.
• Climbing stairs, ladders, and scaffolding
• Work environment includes exposure to compressed air, steam, lubrication oil, dust, and hydraulic fluid.

Total Reward Details

We’re committed to providing an exceptional workplace experience, including a comprehensive total reward package. This position is eligible for our Incentive Plan. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience among other factors. Benefits are generally available after 30 days and include medical, dental, vision, life, disability coverage, employee assistance program, and a 401k plan. Paid time off will include vacation days, personal days, and company holidays

Clearwater Paper does not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and will not require Clearwater Paper's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.