Flex First Line Leader- Finished Products

Position Title:

Flex Front Line Leader- Finished Products

Pay Rate:

$82,500-$110,000

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Variable pay may provide additional opportunities for financial awards. This job is eligible to participate in IP’s short –term incentive plan.

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time

Physical Location:

3737 Hwy 3

Redwood, MS 39156

The Job You Will Perform:

At Vicksburg Mill, the Flex First Line Leader (FLL), as a first-line leader, is responsible for supervising and leading all aspects of shift operations within the Finished Products Department. The Flex FLL supports operating crews in achieving department and mill objectives while promoting safe, reliable, and efficient operations. This includes rotating 12-hour shifts supporting a 24/7 365 days a year operation, this position could work irregular shift patterns. This position provides leadership and operational support where needed. The Flex FLL is accountable for the daily coordination of available resources to ensure continuity of operations and works closely with leaders and employees across the mill to support business needs. Successful candidates should be self-motivated, adaptable, and display initiative by identifying and completing tasks.
The primary focus for the Shift Leader is to ensure the productivity and performance of the operating team in each of these key areas:

• Safety— The Finished Products Shift Manager demonstrates safety leadership, setting the highest standard for safety and holding all team members accountable to it. The Shift Manager is responsible for correcting unsafe behaviors and conditions, driving a culture of safety with team members, conducting incident investigations, and completing safety observations.

• Operations— The Finished Products Shift Manager manages daily shift operations of Finished Products with a focus on reliable operation. The Shift Manager is responsible for meeting and exceeding established production goals by supporting routine and annual outages, driving completion of equipment care rounds and identification of reliability issues, coordinating shift maintenance and other resources to address reliability issues.

• Communication— The Finished Products Shift Manager actively communicates within the department, across the mill, and with all levels of the organization. The Shift Manager must coordinate and communicate within the department with the shift operators, creating alignment with the operating strategies and goals of the Finished Products Area Process Managers and the Business Unit Manager; hold monthly crew meetings, effectively communicate and plan production with all departments (Fibers, Power,). When necessary, the Shift Manager will alert appropriate people of downtime and other operating issues, support the crews’ communication with other departments, assist in calling in and coordinating resources to address upsets, or to fill vacancies.

• Continuous Improvement— The Finished Products Shift Manager creates a culture of continuous improvement on shift. The Shift Manager is responsible for harnessing the experience and creativity of all team members to improve the equipment, the workplace, and the process to achieve year-over-year improvement; capturing improvement ideas in the DRIVE system for further consideration and development; leading on-shift improvement initiatives.

• Team Development and Engagement— The Finished Products Shift Manager is a team builder and a performance coach. The Shift Manager will enhance employee engagement by providing leadership and direction to the shift, ensure implementation of individual team member training programs in coordination with the Learning Leaders, assign responsibility for tasks and decisions amongst the crew, give specific recognition and feedback for each team member; complete area engagement plans, listen and respond to employee issues, ensure personnel issues on crew are addressed.
  

The Skills You Will Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a combination of manufacturing experience with increasing levels of leadership is required, with experience in paper mill operations.
• The qualified candidate will be a self-starter and have the ability to set expectations and motivate Top Operators and their crews toward meeting mill and department objectives.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills are vital to this position.
• The individual selected will be required to complete the First Line Leader Proficiency curriculum, which includes attending future sessions of IP Leadership I and First Line Leader classes and completing ME White Belt certification
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