Sylvamo Hiring for Drives Subject Matter Expert at Concord, New Hampshire Full Time

Drives Subject Matter Expert

United StatesReq #1006

Friday, February 10, 2023

At Sylvamo, we’re a team on a mission. Joining us, you’ll be helping to sustain forests and renew ecosystems, while delivering on the promise of paper to educate, communicate and entertain the world.

Come grow with us!

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Drives Subject Matter Expert works systematically and closely with all mills and Technology SMEs to continuously improving performance through effective troubleshooting, incorporating best practices and processes to impact bottom line in a continuous and sustainable manner.

• Drives Subject Matter Expertshould have extensive experience, knowledge at all areas of Pulp, Paper and Converting areas,EPD, Motors, Electrical systems,

• Drives and work closely with MMM, MRLs, AMMs andother professionals of these areas across Sylvamo mills globally.

• It is expected high level of collaboration and cooperation among mill professionals and Technology SMEs to effectively develop/implement operational and strategic goals and achieve targets:

• Safely,On Schedule or earlier,On Budget or betterand ensure the overallPerformance is as expected or better.

• The overall performance includesReliability systems/practices, Competitive cost, and Systematize learning/procedures to drive continuous improvement toward customer focus and business strategies.

Main Responsibilities:

• Safety: Act as role model, actively sharing Safety and Environmental experiences across the globe to advise and support sites efforts to sustain a culture of prevention, teamwork and care about each other, achieve and sustain injury free workplace.

• Collaborative Global Support: Stay fully connected with Paper and Converting mills & teams to understand short, mid and long term needs and opportunities to continuously improve performance. Jointly identify and implement actions to systematically eliminate Physical, Human and LATENT gaps in a sustainable manner. Jointly support the production areas implement effective actions to deliver sales volumes, properly attend customers’ expectations, quality to drive company profitability goals.

• Integrated Efforts:Ensure close work with all other Process, Reliability and other Technology SMES to integrate actions that can maximize potential benefits and guarantee holistic approach and no competitive initiatives are implemented across the mill system which may negatively impacting the overall business bottom line. The goal is ALL WIN TOGETHER, not a specific area is doing very well and other struggling as impact of “one area success”.

• Continuous Development: Support new products development, trial plans, performance evaluation and support needed initiative to optimize the production process. At same time, continuously work on your individual development (Technical and Leadership) focused on best practices tools and methods like Lean Six Sigma, Data Analysis and Modeling, Power BI, Disruptive Technologies, MOF, Leadership best practices, 360 Feedback, among others.

• Workforce Performance:Closely work with mill personnel to identify needed training, personal and teams’ development in a permanent base and beyond GMTI certification, use “airlines pilot training “which are constantly under training, scenario drills/simulations and prepared to perform flawless when the real situation requires. Training do not end with certification, it just starts.

• Customers Internal & External: Partner and teamwork with other SMEs and all company areas to support mills efforts develop outstanding focus on quality and customers at all levels. Support efforts to establish each processes key “products-quality performance” and establish sustainable working practices (procedures, SOPs, TCC, training, refresh and drills for most impactful/critical scenarios to avoid upsets and prevent failures at all levels and incorporate into workforce culture the importance and value of BASIC CARE discipline, attention to details, aiming to be brilliant on basics and capability to identify issues on early phases and before they become significant or chronic.

• Innovation: Stay connected globally connected with vendors, OEMs, site and business teams to evaluate, validate and propose new technologies, processes, tools to attend eventual market/customers’ needs and when appropriated, support the implementation at site level.

• Data Analysis:Continuous personal development and teams-site resources to enhance capability to use updated and elaborated data analysis techniques which support the site have full capability to troubleshoot > 90 % of coming issues, capture learnings and continuously work to implement systems that can identify, escalate and predict failures before they become significant or catastrophic. Foster and support daily efforts to become: FASTER-AGILE, BETTER, CHEAPER.

• Improvements: Partner with all sites and areas to identify, prioritize, develop and implement initiatives that impact the bottom-line making teams, sites and businesses more successful. Intensify efforts and application of improvement techniques like Lean-Six Sigma to aim drive > 75 % improvements through noncapital solutions and when capital is the only solution the implemented projects always exceed expectations from day one.

• Company Culture: Know and communicate the company Mission, Vision, Principles and overall company CULTURE through all layers.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Experience & Technical Background:

• Greater than 15 years of experience with Papermaking and Converting processes from High Density Towers up to Paper Machines-Converting, which could include:

• Management/operations experience at Paper mills

• Experience with major Paper machines / Converting OEMs

• Process engineering/control roles at Paper mills

• Required Degree: Engineering/Technical college degree. Pulp & Papermaking skills courses.

• Desired Degree: Pulp & Paper Specialization – TAPPI / ABTCP/Others.

• Data analysis, Lean Six Sigma, PDCA, RCFA and Troubleshooting skills.

Sylvamo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Other details

• Job FamilyTechnology

• Pay TypeSalary

• United States

Sylvamo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.