West Point Mill - West Point VA Operations Maintenance Coordinator, Papermill. West Point VA. The opportunity: The Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC) provides leadership and support to the mill's EPAM initiative through coordinating maintenance activities between Production and Maintenance, prioritizing daily work, planning scheduled shutdowns, managing maintenance backlogs, reducing break-in work, as well as leading safety and audit items for production and maintenance follow-up. The OMC role reports to the Papermill Superintendent. How you will impact WestRock: Supporting Operations team in Papermill, Secondary Fiber, and Shipping Areas along with area Maintenance & Electrical teams. Ensures continuity of area operations, achieving departmental objectives and facilitating sound business decisions. Standardizing and Simplifying processes to achieve lowest cost operations possible for our internal customer(s). Coordinating scheduled maintenance, emergency maintenance, and outage activities for maintaining and ensuring reliability of operations and a seamless transition of information between departments and service(s) skill sets Work closely with area management to Prioritize work orders, approving break-in or emergency work, managing/scheduling backlogs, planning/scheduling shutdowns and developing standardized equipment outage packets.
Accountable for an incident-free work environment by managing the departments safety work order backlog and involvement in areas Safety Committees activities.
Assure all Safety and Environmental standards are achieved or exceeded.
Engage in WR Performance Excellence (LSS), driving results to achieve a low-cost operational department.
Keeping "planned work order" backlog according to guidelines; utilize backlog to schedule daily and weekly work list.
Lead daily approval meets, outage planning meetings, monthly maintenance budget meetings.
Track maintenance spending against budget and communicate performance to area department.
Screening and approving all work orders for operating areas; assuring quality of all work orders (coding accuracy, symptoms accurately described), challenging status quo.
Serving as project originator for maintenance capital in asset area; write FEP 1 documentation.
Planning the installation and startup of new equipment to minimize the upset of normal operations.
Develop skillset within operational areas as backup for other area roles.
Developing and maintaining detailed, structured on-the-job training manuals for all department tasks and jobs.
What you need to succeed:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or 5 years of pulp/paper mill operational experience.
Experience in a cross functional team environment - i.e. Operations/Maintenance
Communicate effectively with operational, environmental, maintenance, and engineering in a team environment yet be self-motivated and accomplish individual goals.
Problem solving, sense of urgency, customer focus, and teamwork.
Intermediate level MS Office, MS Teams, and MS Project and computer-based maintenance work systems.
Knowledge of maintenance management principles including precision, preventative, root cause failure analysis, shutdown, and contingency planning.
Knowledge of JD Edwards operating system a plus.
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