Engineer Principal Reliability

Where you will work

Clearwater Paper is a premier independent supplier of paperboard packaging products to North American converters. Headquartered in Spokane, Washington, our team produces high-quality paperboard that provides sustainable packaging solutions for consumer goods and food service applications.

Our business thrives on the foundation of our talented team members. Embodying our core values of commitment, collaboration, communication, courage, and character, we foster an environment where every person is safe, respected, and valued. Through community giving, a matching gift program, employee volunteerism, and more, we support the communities where we live and work. For additional information, please visit our website at www.clearwaterpaper.com.

What you will do

The Senior Principal Engineer serves as the primary subject matter expert on maintenance best practices and works with sites to institutionalize these best practices into their work practices. This role is responsible for leading, in collaboration with division leaders, plant managers, and asset leaders, the development and deployment of asset maintenance strategy across Clearwater Paper.

Technical Consultation and Execution

• Serves as principal internal subject matter expert around Maintenance and Reliability for the sites
• Develops Maintenance best practices and supports mill sites in institutionalizing these practices in the work flow
• Principle contact for support and resourcing from external groups
• Assists in the development and execution of asset reliability programs incorporating capital prioritization and predictive and preventive maintenance programs (e.g. Vibration, Lubrication)
• Ensures that BDA/RCFA process is consistently and appropriately followed across company
• Develops functional cross sharing platform for equipment failures and learnings across all sites
• Provides expertise for urgent troubleshooting as needed
• Assists sites in planning, execution, and critique of major shutdowns

Continuous Improvement

• Lead and support a culture of continuous improvement and developing of critical KPIs through review, refresh, and refinement of the maintenance roadmap and asset strategy
• Supports the development and execution of maintenance plans for the company
• Works with mill teams to identify gaps in equipment uptime and assists team with building sustainable plans to close
• Identify opportunities to improve overall performance through the development and deployment of maintenance standards
• Proactively monitor evolving technology landscape for opportunities to continuously improve productivity, processes, and efficiencies

Leadership and Talent Building

• Foster an environment that encourages employee engagement through a demonstration and modelling of Clearwater Paper's Core Values
• Drive a culture of technical collaboration throughout business
• Champion and execute Clearwater Paper's Talent and Performance Management process incorporating goal development and deployment, talent reviews, succession planning, and talent selection and development to ensure organization sustainment
• Enable technical sustainment plan by promoting, developing, and transferring knowledge across work groups
• Mentor mill leadership at all levels of organization

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Strong analytical skills to leverage data to drive quantitative and analytically based business decisions and take smart risks
• Demonstrated leadership courage to identify and communicate project risks; develop, align resources and communicate countermeasures to mitigate risks
• Able to think strategically and act tactically; hands on
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a matrixed and highly collaborative environment to influence change and core processes
• Confidence in dealing with ambiguity; bringing different perspectives to light and rallying others to aligned goals and objectives
• High degree of business curiosity; quick learner with a proactive and agile mindset
• Optimistically looks toward future for opportunities to innovate and improve
• Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal); leading and presenting complex materials for various audiences
• Demonstrated experience in influencing across diverse team- creating a vision, strategy, gaining alignment, developing plans and tactics to ensure delivery
• Demonstrated strong change management skills; aligning and bringing others along- act to improve culture, process, products
• Demonstrated ability to understand the organizational impact in decision making; see the big picture and distil it into action plans

What you will need

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required, Master's degree preferred
• Minimum ten years experience in paper mill maintenance, engineering, project management and/or production management required
• Minimum five years of budgetary responsibilities
• Reliability process management experience strongly preferred
• Certifications in Project Management, TPM or Continuous Improvement (Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt) desired but not required
• Understanding of predictive and preventive maintenance programs, work order systems and world-class maintenance systems
• Understanding of Root Cause Failure Analysis facilitation
• Previous experience with data manipulation tools (e.g. Power BI) preferred
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing personal development through continuing education, coaching and developing others
• Highly adept performing at a fast pace communicating and collaborating across multiple stakeholders
• Previous experience using a Computer Maintenance Management system preferred (e.g. JD Edwards)
• Must possess analytical troubleshooting skills
• Must have good verbal and written communication skills
• Continuous improvement/lean manufacturing experience preferred
• Demonstrated ability to foster Continuous Improvement
• High speed manufacturing environment, sustained exposure to high frequency noises, multiple hours standing, walking on concrete surfaces
• Personal Protective Equipment required in mill environment
• Dirt, noise, odor, & temperature extremes
• Climbing stairs, ladders, and scaffolding
• Exposure to hazardous chemicals used in manufacturing process
• Travel required of 50-75% of time

Total Rewards Details

We prioritize an exceptional workplace experience, offering a comprehensive total reward package. This position is eligible for our Incentive Plan. Compensation ranges are estimates based on market data. Actual offers account for internal equity and candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, education, experience, and geographic location. Benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and more, generally begin after 30 days. Our paid time off will include vacation days, personal days, and company holidays. For more on our compensation philosophy, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Team at Talent.Acquisition@clearwaterpaper.com.

Clearwater Paper will not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require Clearwater Paper's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

This role will be open for a minimum of 2 weeks or at the point a successful candidate is selected.