Pulp Production Shift Supervisor

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage hourly employees and Team Leaders to ensure accurate time & attendance, effective crew scheduling, efficient employee development, and compliance to all HR policies in a union environment.
• Ensure safety & environmental compliance for areas of responsibility through the use of: safety training, safety permitting, safety & environmental one-on-one meetings, and management of safety & environmental policies.
• Ensure product quality in areas of responsibility through use of ISO and quality targets.
• Ensure production targets are met by: leading process troubleshooting, ensuring adherence to SOP’s & KPI’s, and ensuring effective housekeeping.
• Improve equipment reliability by ensuring effective operator rounds, efficient management of maintenance resources, facilitating entry of work requests, and leading crews during equipment outages.
• Manage communication among employees, peers, and supervisors though the use of shift turnover meetings, expectation setting, regular feedback & coaching, incident investigations, and reporting of variances. 

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Four-year engineering degree or equivalent operational experience in a Pulp & Utilities environment.
• Solid understanding of the operation of an integrated pulp & paper mill.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in a pulp & utilities environment. 
• Ability to build and sustain trust and work collaboratively across functions.
• Demonstrated leadership and supervisory experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work a 12-hour rotating shift schedule.
• Ability to balance priorities to meet short and long-term goals.
• Efficient in use of Office productivity products and enterprise planning systems.
• Possess an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to handle or feel.
• The employee frequently is required to talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

• The noise level in the work environment can be loud at times.
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts.
• May be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; vibrations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• No license requirement.

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.