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Smurfit Westrock Assistant Superintendent - Power & Utilities in Dublin, Georgia
Power & Utilities Assistant Superintendent - Dublin, Georgia
Job Summary: The Power & Utilities Assistant Superintendent serves as a first-line supervisor directing the work of shift operators and trades people in the utility plant and power plant. As a first-line leader, this role is responsible for establishing safety, quality, cost, and operating output.
Major Job Responsibilities:
Business Excellence
Direct power & utility teams to ensure manufacturing standards are met by leveraging processes and assets.
Achieve safety, environment, quality standards to meet and exceed performance and production metrics through use of industry best practices.
Proactively set and manage departmental metrics that impact cost (e.g., downtime, reliability, volume and waste).
Formulate solutions to minimize lead time and maximize product quality, productivity, and profit margin.
Forecast financial requirements to inform annual budget development, schedule expenditures, analyze variances, and capital projects.
Maintain records, prepare reports, and compose correspondence relative to the work being performed.
Provide technical expertise when necessary to resolve operational issues.
Champion of maintaining or enhancing a culture of continuous improvement.
People and Culture
Coordinates activities by scheduling work assignments, setting priorities, and directing the work of subordinate employees.
Ensure staffing is appropriate to meet workload requirements and productivity standards.
Develop coaching plans to ensure timely and consistent feedback to employees and conduct annual performance reviews.
Identifies staff development and training needs and ensures that training is obtained.
Analyze root causes and solve employee or customer issues effectively and in a timely manner.
Foster a team atmosphere, provide vision, and demonstrate support of the company\u2019s core values.
Work cross-functionally with department heads to create a long-term strategic plan to forecast mill/plant performance.
Provide a safe work environment for employees and ensure compliance with environmental policies and procedures.
Critical Skills / Capabilities
Leadership: Leads and motivates a team of people to achieve performance excellence; ability to read people and situations and adjust approach accordingly; proactively leads and enforces initiatives that drive organizational effectiveness; teaches others how to build trust-based relationships
Problem-Solving: Applies knowledge to frame, simplify and solve complex issues; focuses on identifying root causes to create solutions in a timely and decisive manner; reconciles conflicting and/or incomplete information to develop solutions
Decision-Making: Uses strong problem-solving skills and supporting information to arrive at optimal decisions in an appropriate timeframe; knows when to decide and/or when to seek additional input, and drive for consensus
Strategic Thinking: Develops short and long-term courses of action that support the organization's overall vision and mission; balances business, technical, and operational issues when determining a strategy; identifies problems with current strategies and suggests ways to resolve them; incorporates knowledge of WestRock\u2019s goals/strategy as well as competitive, customer, supplier, industry, or marketplace trends into strategic plans; capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks
Communication: Creates and delivers engaging presentations to internal and external audiences; develops new communication strategies and approaches to communicate data, insights, and critical messages resulting in clear understanding
Growth and Results Oriented: Delivers personal or organizational results by successfully influencing others (i.e. co-workers, other teams, external partners, etc.) within a matrixed organization; delivers high quality work within the stipulated time period to achieve maximum results
Process-Oriented: Plans, designs, and manages processes while focusing on refining and improving to increase efficiency and effectiveness; understands process inputs, activities, outputs, roles and sequencing
Technical Skills
Microsoft Office- Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
Process Management
Data historian software (i.e., Process Book)
Experience:
Required: 7 to 10 years of supervisory experience in pulp and paper manufacturing
Preferred: Paper engineering, chemical engineering, or integrated paper mill experience
Education:
Required: High school diploma or G.E.D equivalent
Preferred: Bachelor\u2019s degree in a related field
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions. We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts with a shared purpose: Innovate Boldly. Package Sustainably. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity, and respect, we use leading science and technology to move fiber-based packaging forward.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.