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Where you will work:
The Cypress Bend facility is located in the historic Mississippi River Delta and produces bleached paperboard and bleached Kraft pulp, used in the production of folding cartons, commercial print paperboard, carded packaging, and cupstock. This facility boasts over 300 talented employees and stretches across 730 acres. Clearwater Paper employees are proud to manufacture a high-quality product for an essential industry.

Cypress Bend is a rural community with close access to the Mississippi River. This is a wonderful location for those who love the outdoors and offers plenty of activities including fishing, hiking, camping, and biking. The Cypress Bend area also offers several opportunities for social and civic involvement including the McGehee Hospital, McGehee Boys & Girls Club, Food Pantry, Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas City Food Pantry, Paws and Claws Humane Society, and the Polite Foundation. Cypress Bend emphasizes exposure to the arts including the WWII Japanese Internment Museum, Desha County Museum, and SEArk Concert Association. Cypress Bend is in close proximity to McGehee, Monticello, and Drew Central public schools as well as UAM McGehee College of Technology and WAM Crossett College of Technology.

What you will do:
The Assistant Superintendent reports to the department Superintendent and assists in ensuring the paperboard manufacturing department operates safely, producing a reliable and environmentally sustainable low-cost supply of paperboard that meets/exceeds customer specifications and expectations. The successful candidate will act as a technical resource for the operations team, and lead project and process improvement efforts in the paper mill. This role may have oversight and accountability of up to five (5) employees, typically hourly or engineering interns/co-ops. This role is primarily focused on the day-to-day technical decision-making, maintaining multimillion-dollar capital assets to deliver quality products. This position may backfill for shift supervisors or the superintendent role as needed to ensure leadership coverage in the department. The ideal candidate will be technically oriented, and in line for advancement, at all levels.

Operations

• Sets objectives and goals cascaded and aligned to the site Integrated Business Plan (IBP)
• Coaches the business unit in the right behaviors
• Ensures the business unit works to standards (Safety, Quality, …)
• Develops the required standards
• Coaches and facilitate losses elimination by using problem solving tools
• Assures the problems are solved (root cause) and tasks are implemented in a sustainable way
• Accountable for the business unit operational budget
• Defines and executes improvement projects and Approval For Capital Expenditure (AFCE) needs to support midterm plans
• Ensures effective communication and reviews results in designated meetings which may include daily, weekly and monthly review of metrics and concerns.

Safety

• Champions safety culture and is responsible for day-to-day area safety and assists/leads with all area safety efforts. ·
• Participate in or review all safety incidents and investigate root cause. Assure follow-up items are completed in a timely manner.
• Help support the behavioral safety program (where applicable) and ensure that safe work practices are followed.
• Lead safety initiatives and provide safety training to ensure safe work practices are followed and enforced.
• Work to eliminate employee interactions with equipment.
• Address safety concerns with a strong urgency.
• Ensure environmental compliance.

Leadership

• Mentor shift supervisors to ensure quality leadership of hourly personnel.
• Provide leadership coverage during the Superintendent’s absence.
• Conduct investigations of safety incidents with shift supervisors and hourly personnel.
• Develop team in areas of production, safety, quality and overall plant efficiency. · Ensure employee compliance with schedules, policies, and procedures.
• Assist in developing and implementing job-specific training program, Qual-card and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s).
• Participate in grievance process (where applicable).
• Support capital budget process.
• Creates an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive teamwork.
• Communication of Site IBP and cascading objectives and priorities into the business unit.
• Responsible for performance management process (DRIVE performance and coaching 1:1).
• Coaches and develop team members and individuals to assure a sustained leadership pipeline.
• Responsible for the motivation and morale of the business unit to achieve the expected goals.
• Collaborates with other areas internal and external to the site.
• Develops and empowers crews to make good business decisions.

Quality

• Maintain and improve quality standards for all products produced.
• Lead quality initiatives and support change to ensure satisfied downstream customers.
• Follow up with rejected/obsolete product to ensure timely disposition.

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results.
• Identifies more critical and less critical activities and assignments; adjusts priorities when appropriate.
• Allocates appropriate amounts of time for completing own and others' work; avoids scheduling conflicts; develops timelines and milestones.
• Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision-making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others’ knowledge and skills.

What you will need:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Pulp & Paper Science preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years in an operations leadership role in a Paper or Consumer Packaged Goods processing facility or equivalent experience leading teams or large projects, preferred.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills with experience in leading change.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable presenting up to senior level audiences.
• Intermediate or greater systems aptitude and excellent computer skills, including Windows-based Excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel with ability to learn production related programs.
• Self-directed and energetic, able to lead and motivate others.
• Knowledge of industry, machinery, equipment, and processes.
• TPM/Lean experience desired.
• High speed manufacturing environment, sustained exposure to high frequency noises, multiple hours standing, walking on concrete or uneven surfaces.
• Personal Protective Equipment required in mill environment.
• Dirt, noise, odor, & temperature extremes.
• Climbing stairs, ladders, and scaffolding.
• Exposure to hazardous chemicals used in manufacturing process, including heat.
• Prolonged work hours may be required during times of upset conditions or planned outages.

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Clearwater Paper does not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and will not require Clearwater Paper's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)