Woodyard Front Line Leader

Position Title: 

First Line Leader – Woodyard

Pay Rate:

$86,800 - $115,700

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills, and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay/PL range.  Variable pay may provide additional opportunities for financial awards. This job is eligible to participate in IP's short–term incentive plan.

Physical Location:

Mansfield Mill

1202 Highway 509

Mansfield LA 71052

The Job You Will Perform:

Reporting to the Woodyard Area Process Manager, the Front Line Leader (FLL) are 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 are responsible for making sure that all members understand what is expected of them, and holding them accountable for those expectations.   They are accountable for ensuring that goals are met in turn around time, Woodyard uptime, housekeeping, and the completion of required checklists.  Front Line Leaders must possess the ability to lead and manage safety, ensuring that all safety goals are accomplished.  In addition, they must work to ensure the timely and accurate communication of information to and from all levels.     

The Skills You Will Bring:

Candidates should have an understanding of the Woodyard and Scalehouse.  They must also have the ability to manage multiple tasks, work in a team, and execute work based on established standards and procedures, and put Safety above all else.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide strong leadership to the crew to meet the mill goals of keeping everyone safe, meet our production targets and stay within budget.

2. Possess the understanding of the department's safety rules and regulations.  Be the driving force for the shift's safety program (i.e. lead safety meetings with the shift, motivate the shift, conduct safety observations, effective communication on key safety issues, participate in FLL safety meetings, hold members accountable for their actions).

3. Conduct regular 1:1's with all members to set and adjust goals, address training concerns, questions, coaching and counseling for performance issues as required.

4. Lead routine shift responsibilities such as managing the 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, etc.

5. The ability to understand and explain the importance of safety, the Mansfield Philosophy, key levers, and mill financial indicators and how they as front line leaders can impact those areas.

6. Know how to proficiently find all start-up and shutdown procedures for all equipment and have a basic understanding of those procedures.

7. Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate & interact with all operating departments and all levels of mill management.

8. Understand and be able to 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.
9. Ensure accurate & timely completion of all operator rounds, including but not limited to safety inspections and operator basic care. 
10. Lead the resolution of mechanical and operating malfunctions throughout the mill process.
11. Read and interpret the results of all required tests and take the necessary corrective action, including but not limited to pulp and liquor tests.
12. Demonstrate good listening and communication skills.
13. Vacation coverage for other FLLs as needed
14. Participating in the department vacation calendar
15. Provide continuous Improvement efforts
16. Ensure crew engagement
17. Support reliability efforts
18. Outage Execution
19. Weekend Duty as needed
20. Training/Onboarding new FLL's
21. Participate in capital projects
22. Act as an IPCC
23. Audit and Adherence for all departmental processes
24. Complete FLL Onboarding curriculum 
25. Complete FLL Proficient curriculum within two years of assignment.
26. Holding members accountable to adhering to the attendance policies set forth by the department. 

Required Skills & Knowledge:

• Closely coordinating all work and crew issues with area manager.

• Completing Basic Care rounds and implementing work orders as needed in a timely manner.

• Initiating reliability recordable and completing RCA's in timely manner.

• Helping to coordinate special work projects.

• Coordinating weekly plan for production and clean-up work.

• Maintaining housekeeping.

• Assisting the EHS coordinator with crew and safety training as needed.

• Coordinating maintenance work with woodyard production schedule.

• Ensuring maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner.

• Compiling necessary data to complete and distribute morning reports and downtime reports.

• Possess a clear ability to manage and coordinate multiple tasks, an understanding of team concepts, a demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as well as an established skill to execute work based on standards and procedures. Qualified candidates must have a demonstrated ability to enforce accountability. 

The Benefits You Will Enjoy:

• Paid time off including Vacation and Holidays

• Retirement and 401k Matching Program

• Medical & Dental

• Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement)

• Life & Disability Insurance

The Impact You Will Make:

We continue to build a better future for people, the plant, and our company IP has been a good steward of sustainable practices across communities around the world for more than 120 years. Join our team and you'll see why our team members say they're Proud to be IP.

The Culture You Will Experience:

International Paper promotes employee well-being by providing safe, caring and inclusive workplaces. You will learn Safety Leadership Principles and have the opportunity to opt into Employee Networking Circles such as IPVets, IPride, Women in IP, and the African American ENC. We invite you to bring your uniqueness, creativity, talents, experiences, and safety mindset to be a part of our increasingly diverse culture.

The Company You Will Join:

International Paper (NYSE: IP) is a leading global supplier of renewable fiber-based products. We produce corrugated packaging products that protect and promote goods, and enable worldwide commerce, and pulp for diapers, tissue and other personal care products that promote health and wellness. Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., we employ approximately 38,000 colleagues globally. We serve customers worldwide, with manufacturing operations in North America, Latin America, North Africa and Europe. Net sales for 2021 were $19.4 billion. Additional information can be found by visiting