Assistant Superintendent - Power & Utilities

Power & Utilities Assistant Superintendent – Dublin, GA

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’s core values.

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  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’s 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)

Work Environment:

• Frequently works indoors, in an environment that is climate controlled
• Occasionally works outdoors in natural environmental conditions (both hot and cold)
• Occasionally works indoors in an environment that is not climate controlled and has high temperatures
• Occasionally works indoors in an environment that is not climate controlled and has low temperatures
• The role is frequently sedentary, which entails sitting or being stationary
• Occasionally stands or walks for 3-6 hours at a time
• Occasionally stands or walks for more than 6 hours at a time
• Noisy work environment; maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations
• Fast paced work J.I.T (just-in-time) environment

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

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  Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in a related field