Where you will work
Clearwater Paper’s Las Vegas facility produces through-air-dried (TAD) ultra-premium bathroom tissue, household paper towels, facial tissue, and napkins for major retail outlets throughout the United States. Boasting over 200 talented employees, the Las Vegas location sits on 23 acres and uses state-of-the-art technology, automation and a variety of equipment such as laser-guided vehicles. Clearwater Paper employees are proud to manufacture a high-quality product for an essential industry.

Located within the Mojave Desert, North Las Vegas sits just northeast of Las Vegas as the 4th largest city in the state of Nevada. The city offers an extensive park and recreation program including 34 parks that cover more than 475 acres of developed parkland. Recently completed Southern Nevada’s Neon to Nature regional trail system includes 10 miles used for hiking, biking, and leisurely strolls. North Las Vegas offers several opportunities for social and civic involvement including Three Square Food Bank, the Salvation Army, Helping Hands of Vegas Valley, and Clark County 4H. North Las Vegas offers a strong K-12 school district (Clark County School District) including 5 high schools and several elementary and middle schools. North Las Vegas is also home to the Cheyenne Campus of the College of Southern Nevada.

What you will do
The Maintenance Supervisor is critical to the success of the Clearwater paper business and holds a variety of leadership responsibilities for our mill locations. This role provides engineering services to develop and implement capital projects.

Leadership:

• Management of the Predictive and Preventative Maintenance programs including vibration coverage through the mill, plant tank integrity, pressure vessel integrity, and pre-post failure reports.
• May manage Maintenance Department in the absence of the Maintenance Manager.
• Work closely with Superintendents, mechanical maintenance supervisors, shift supervisors, the planning department, and appropriate department personnel to assure that all reliability activities are coordinated and executed to established plans and schedules.
• Supervise reliability technicians & reliability lead with a direction given to the electrical reliability engineer. Provide positive, proactive direction and management to the reliability team. Conduct performance reviews
• Assess the needs of the crew and implement developmental processes (e.g., coaching, counseling, taking corrective action, mentoring, etc.) to continuously improve their performance.
• Responsible for the weekend and nightly mill-wide calls.
• Responsible for the payroll approval process.
• Review job assignments.

Safety and Environmental:

• Provide regular inspections of work areas to assure that good housekeeping practices are followed.
• Instruct and lead the crew in safe work practices in pursuit of zero injuries.
• Verify that all safety recordkeeping is done in a timely manner.

Reliability Project Planning and Execution:

• Coordinate own activities and those of area employees to assure that all E&I maintenance work is conducted in a low-cost culture and achieves optimum equipment and process reliability.
• Maintain a high level of awareness of all reliability project activities being performed throughout the mill.
• Identify and correct any potential problems (troubleshooting) and take the appropriate action necessary to prevent serious equipment failure.
• Coordinate and facilitate with the planning department for the development of a weekly maintenance outage schedule.
• Develop and maintain crew schedules for route plans
• Plans scheduled downtimes and shutdowns.

Equipment Reliability:

• Continuous improvement process support in (best-in-class) PdM process improvements.
• Criticality audits (ABC’s) with vendors, operations, and maintenance teams auditing and updating critical spare for assets.
• Own the BDA & RCA process with maintenance and operations.
• Runs Site DOR meetings, monthly route report-outs, and site communication for the reliability team.
• Work with vendors, operations, and maintenance teams developing PdM, PM’s, and updating JDE.
• Updates and owns the reliability “Share Point” folder with SMP’s, precision maintenance documents, lube, and vibe reports etc.
• Delivering team Metrix and KPI’s. (Findings, completions, and wins for the department).
• Manages the Yankee safety management requirements including spare Yankee management protocol.
• Management of the site tank integrity and pressure vessel certification
• Management of the site safety relief certifications requirements.
• Develop, document, and maintain annual site boiler testing
• Develops JDE preventative maintenance program (PM’s & PdM) and asset criticality list (ABC’s)
• Investigates and analyses relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards
• Manages transformer PM program.
• Manages site motor testing and Lube programs
• Manages lubrication, vibration, UT, Thermal, and IR routes on all machines.

Key Competencies and Attributes:

• 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.
• Identifies barriers that impact customer service and retention; communicates concerns and recommendations to others.
• Uses an understanding of customer needs and the organization’s customer service practices to set priorities, make decisions, and take actions that create customer satisfaction and prevent service issues from occurring.
• Creates relevant options for addressing problems and opportunities that will achieve desired outcomes.
• Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results.

What you will need
To be successful in this position, we are looking for candidates with the following:

• High school diploma or GED required
• Associate degree or bachelor’s degree in Maintenance or related field (preferred)
• Minimum five years experience in a tissue or paper mill (required)
• Prior experience in a leadership position with supervisory experience (preferred)
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook (required)
• Advanced proficiency in JD Edwards (required)
• Strong leadership experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work in a high-speed manufacturing environment, sustained exposure to high-frequency noises, multiple hours standing, and walking on concrete surfaces
• Personal Protective Equipment required in the mill environment including eye and ear protection, steel-toed shoes, hard hats, etc.
• Able to work in an environment with dirt, noise, odor, and temperature extremes.
• Able to climb stairs, ladders, and scaffolding
• Exposure to hazardous chemicals used in the manufacturing process

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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 must 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)