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Area Manufacturing Excellence Leader Pulp


Job Location:

Selma, AL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 108200 - 144300
Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 8 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Position Title:

Area Manufacturing Excellence Leader - Pulp

Pay Rate:

$108200-$144300

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

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time

Physical Location:

601 County Rd 78

Selma Al

The Job You Will Perform:

  • Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results

  • Identify and deliver sustainable cost savings through multiple deliberate and continuous improvement initiatives in alignment with the mills goal of year over year (YOY) cost reduction

  • Train salaried and hourly employees to develop ME skills in the department and/or mill

  • Work within the group to develop college hires (REACH) into ME Engineers

  • Achieve ME certifications (White Yellow Green Black Master Black)

  • Maintain strong relationships with other ME leaders as well as operating and maintenance department leaders

  • Influence Business Unit operations teams to incorporate ME systems and processes to support sustainability of improvements as they are accomplished

  • Support operations through field day/annual outage support and weekend duty assignments when needed

  • Identify and implement Manufacturing Excellence best practices from across the mill business and company

  • Support 5S program for the area and drive improvement projects audit systems and excellent results

  • Provide support for cost reduction capital project development and implementation

  • Implement systems to improve/sustain results

  • Fulfill weekend duty team leadership role for assigned department

  • Provide support for budgeting cycle targeted at delivering year over year savings

The Skills You Will Bring:

  • Instill safety as a core value within the team and effectively communicate a shared vision for safety

  • Quickly develop thorough knowledge of mill equipment and systems

  • Utilize excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate to groups and individuals at all levels

  • Approach positional responsibilities in an inclusive manner by engaging all team members in area department and mill

  • Work effectively alone or within a team

  • Possess Manufacturing Excellence (ME) certification of yellow or green belt.

  • Utilize strong organizational skills to handle multiple tasks effectively

  • Minimum of five (5) years experience in operations maintenance and/or engineering in a paper manufacturing environment is required.

  • Bachelors degree in chemical mechanical or electrical engineering is required; equivalent practical experience may be considered.

  • IP ME certification of green or black belt is preferred; additional lean/six sigma certifications a plus.




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