Woodyard Front Line Leader

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position Title: First Line Leader – Woodyard

Pay Rate: $86,800 - $115,700

Physical

Location:

Mansfield Mill, 1202 Highway 509, Mansfield LA 71052

Reporting to the Woodyard Area Process Manager, the Front Line Leader (FLL) is responsible for the management, coordination, and direction of a crew of 10 operating members in the Woodyard, as well as up to 4 scalers at the Scalehouse. Front Line Leaders ensure that all members understand expectations and hold them accountable, achieve goals in turnaround time, Woodyard uptime, housekeeping, and completion of required checklists.

They lead and manage safety, ensuring safety goals are accomplished, and communicate information to and from all levels.

Candidates should understand the Woodyard and Scalehouse, manage multiple tasks, work in a team, execute work based on established standards and procedures, and put safety above all else.

• Provide strong leadership to the crew to meet mill goals of keeping everyone safe, meeting production targets, and staying within budget.
• Understand and enforce the department’s safety rules and regulations, lead safety meetings, conduct observations, effective communication on key safety issues, participate in FLL safety meetings, and hold members accountable.
• Conduct regular 1:1s with all members to set and adjust goals, address training concerns, questions, coaching, and counseling for performance issues as required.
• Lead routine shift responsibilities such as managing shift schedule, overseeing overtime controls, completing training, goal setting, effectively communicating department/mill key levers, motivation, conducting Guidance Committees, performance management, coaching and counseling, promoting accountability, ensuring progressive discipline as necessary.
• Understand and explain safety, Mansfield Philosophy, key levers, and mill financial indicators and their impact.
• Find and understand startup and shutdown procedures for all equipment and have a basic understanding of those procedures.
• Communicate and interact effectively with all operating departments and all levels of mill management.
• Teach basic ideas and requirements of the Manufacturing Work System, including notification entry & delivery ticket creation in SAP and outage planning as it pertains to the crews.
• Ensure accurate & timely completion of all operator rounds, including safety inspections and operator basic care.
• Lead resolution of mechanical and operating malfunctions throughout the mill process.
• Read and interpret results of required tests and take necessary corrective action, including pulp and liquor tests.
• Demonstrate good listening and communication skills.
• Provide vacation coverage for other FLLs as needed and participate in the department vacation calendar.
• Deliver continuous Improvement efforts and ensure crew engagement.
• Support reliability efforts, outage execution, weekend duty as needed, train/onboard new FLLs, participate in capital projects, act as an IPCC.
• Audit and adhere to all departmental processes and complete FLL onboarding and proficiency curriculum within two years.
• Hold members accountable to attendance policies set by the department.

• Coordinate all work and crew issues with the area manager.
• Complete basic care rounds and implement work orders promptly.
• Initiate reliability recordables and complete RCA’s timely.
• Coordinate special work projects, weekly production and clean‑up plans, housekeeping, crew and safety training, and maintenance work with woodyard production schedule.
• Ensure maintenance tasks are completed timely and compile data for morning and downtime reports.
• Manage multiple tasks, understand team concepts, enforce accountability, execute work based on standards and procedures.

• Paid time off, including vacation and holidays.
• Retirement and 401(k) matching program.
• Medical and dental coverage.
• Education and development programs, including tuition reimbursement.
• Life and disability insurance.

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