First Line Leader- Finished Products

Position Title:

First Line Leader - Finished Products

Pay Rate:

$104,000 - $127,000

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

Category/Shift:

Salaried Exempt Full-Time (12 Hour Rotating Shift)

Physical Location:

Mansfield Mill

1202 Hwy 509

Mansfield, LA 71052

The Job You Will Perform:

The Finished Products First Line Leader is responsible for the management, coordination, and direction of a crew in the Finished Products department.

• Safety: Lead and manage safety, ensuring that all safety and housekeeping goals are accomplished. Support the EHS coordinators and Safety Captains, drive safety with the crew, and assist in conducting incident investigations, safety observations, and inspections.
• People: Responsible for making sure that all members understand what is expected of them, conducting one-to-ones, and holding members accountable for those expectations.
• Operations: Manage daily shift operations with a focus on continuous improvement, support routine and annual outages and responsible for meeting and exceeding established production and quality goals.
• Communication: Demonstrate the ability to effectively interact with all operating departments and all levels of mill management and ensure the timely and accurate communication of information to and from all levels. Demonstrate good listening and communication skills. Attend and participate in all FLL meetings

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate good listening and communication skills.
• Vacation coverage for FLL
• Each department will have a vacation calendar
• Provide continuous Improvement efforts
• Engagement
• Reliability Efforts
• Outage Execution
• Weekend Duty
• Training/Onboarding new FLL's
• Capital Projects/IPCC
• Audit and Adherence for all departmental processes
• Complete the FLL Proficient curriculum within two years of assignment.
• Work Overtime where necessary to accommodate departmental needs including, but not limited to, support of 8 Week Scheduled Outages and Annual Outage Execution

The Skills You Will Bring:

Qualified candidates must possess a solid understanding of the Finished Products Area and a thorough knowledge of all Finished Products Department processes. This includes key understandings of the critical parameters that impact safety, environmental, costs, quality, and customers. Candidates must also possess a clear ability to manage and coordinate multiple tasks, an understanding of team concepts, a demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as well as an established skill to execute work based on standards and procedures. Qualified candidates must have a demonstrated ability to enforce accountability.

Front line leader candidates must possess a minimum of 3 years of experience on the paper machine at the Group II - Operator level or higher OR an engineering degree and 2 years of relevant experience. Candidates must also be a member in good standing to be considered for this position.

The Benefits You Will Enjoy:

International Paper offers a benefits package that includes health, welfare and retirement plans including Medical, Dental, Life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short-term and Long-term Disability, 401(k), Company-funded retirement contributions, Paid Time Off, Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement), Student Loan Repayment Assistance, and Voluntary Benefits including insurance for home, auto, vision and pets

The Career You Will Build:

Leadership training, promotional opportunities

The Impact You Will Make:

We continue to build a better future for people, the planet, and our company! IP has been a good steward of sustainable practices across communities around the world for more than 125 years. Join our team and you'll see why our team members say they're Proud to be IP.

The Culture You Will Experience:

International Paper promotes employee well-being by providing safe, caring and inclusive workplaces. We have team members all around the world with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. These are our strengths. We are committed to creating a culture where all individuals are respected, valued, engaged and have an opportunity to do their best work every day. We invite you to bring your uniqueness, creativity, talents, experiences, and safety mindset to be a part of our increasingly inclusive and diverse culture.

The Company You Will Join:

International Paper (NYSE: IP; LSE: IPC) creates sustainable packaging solutions that enable our customers, teammates and shareowners to thrive in an ever-changing world. We are a leader in corrugated packaging, partnering with customers across industries to protect what matters most, strengthen supply chains and create lasting value. Learn more at internationalpaper.com.

International Paper is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. International Paper complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact reasonable.accommodations@ipaper.com or (877) 973-3919.