Shift Team Leader- Manufacturing

Position Title:

Shift Team Leader

Pay Rate:

$89000-$130500

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 (Dupont rotating 12 hour shift)

Physical Location:

4600 C St. SW

Cedar Rapids IA 52404

The Job You Will Perform:

Provide leadership and support within a high performance work system to all facets of the manufacturing process while on shift. The Shift Team Leader is responsible for team performance team member engagement and achieving manufacturing results on a shift-to-shift basis. Must support and exemplify the vision and organizational values of International Paper Cedar River Mill.

• Supports and leads efforts at Cedar River that include an injury-free environment through role modeling safe behavior active involvement in safety activities and maintaining a clean and orderly work environment.
• Coordinates and leads efforts to support high performance work teams.
• Leadership role in ensuring team member relations efforts and processes are in place to maximize team member engagement and results.
• Leads provides guidance and/or supports teams as needed to achieve small team goals daily responsibilities and overall achievement of mill goals.
• Manages daily shift operations
• Active shift leader responsible for short-term (shift-to-shift) mill performance and long-term performance of small teams.
• Provides feedback coaching support and when necessary take corrective measures to ensure all team members have a positive productive and safe work environment.
• Communicates as needed with team members and mill leadership for resolution of safety quality cost production and personnel issues.
• Understands and meets internal and external customer requirements.
• Develops maintains and uses reliable methods for all processes and their improvements.
• Assists other team members in the mill as necessary to minimize downtime and maintain quality.
• Maintains and develops team relationships.
• Positive upbeat attitude that instills confidence in personal leadership ability.

The Qualifications Skills and Knowledge You Will Bring:

• Demonstrated and successful leadership ability in a manufacturing environment including knowledge of and leadership in manufacturing safety practices.
• Effectively model the Cedar River Organizational Values and commitment to leading Cedar River to an injury-free work environment through leadership and role modeling safe behavior and personal attention to and direct involvement in safety activities and maintaining a clean and orderly work environment.
• Must have a high level of integrity energy and leadership ability to develop and lead others.
• Demonstrated and successful ability to lead and continuously improve team performance in order to work injury-free provide a quality product and achieve world class productivity in support of a high performance work system.
• Effective oral and written communications skills with proven ability to provide positive and improvement feedback coaching opportunities and take corrective measures as appropriate.
• Strong computer skills required.

Preferred

• College degree preferred.

• Excellent skills in organizing planning priority setting and time management with proven ability to adapt to sudden changes in the work environment.

• Ability to effectively facilitate problem solving or conflict resolution processes.

• Ability to work with process team members maintenance and suppliers.

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 within a global company

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 youll see why our team members say theyre 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) is the global leader in sustainable packaging solutions. With company headquarters in Memphis Tennessee USA and EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) headquarters in London UK we employ more than 65000 team members and serve customers around the world with operations in more than 30 countries. Together with our customers we make the world safer and more productive one sustainable packaging solution at a sales for 2024 were $18.6 2025 International Paper acquired DS Smith creating an industry leader focused on the attractive and growing North American and EMEA regions. Additional information can be found by visiting

International Paper is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin religion age disability marital status veteran status genetic information or any other status protected by law.

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