Area Process Manager - Wood Processing

$105,800 - $141,000

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Salaried Full-Time

Provide leadership and support to the Wood Processing Department.

Support and exemplify the vision and organizational values of Global Cellulose Fibers and the Grande Prairie Mill.

Participate in safety related activities, be a role model of safe and healthy practices, demonstrate core safety leadership behaviors as expected for team leaders as defined by the GCF Leadership Model. Initiate or participate in safety incident reviews as appropriate.

Implement/support safety processes ensuring a safe work environment for all employees.

Comply with applicable federal, provincial, and local regulatory law.

Ensure that safety and environment practices as well as operating and maintenance procedures are up-to-date, followed and improved.

Serve as the leader of the department. Accountable for ensuring the department achieves targets.

Provide leadership to safely optimize production, quality, cost, and environment on a daily basis.

Provide input to plant wide decisions regarding outage planning (water and steam management, waste management, shutdown/startup triggers, etc.). Manage material inventory levels for outages and special causes.

Lead and/or influence problem resolution. Provide troubleshooting skills in areas of expertise. Provide leadership to summon resources when the team has exhausted all avenues of resolution.

Ensure routine communication is provided to the teams in a timely and quality manner. Celebrate and communicate excellent results.

Report production and plant status to teams and other appropriate company resources. Communicate daily, monthly, yearly results to plant as part of daily plan.

Participate in performance management process. Provide feedback to teams and individuals, participate in resolving performance issues.

Identify and verify staffing and skill requirements for success.

Assist teams with data gathering /analyzing for daily operational decisions, leverage assessment and or incident reviews.

Responsible for upholding standards.

Perform APM functions in the Daily Operations and Manufacturing Work System processes.

Ensure PM routes, area centerlines, basic care rounds and CBA’s are adhered to.

Administrate individual work schedules and assist with overtime management.

Maintains quality standards according to customer specifications.

Possesses skills and willingness to intervene for change.

Ability to conduct effective meetings.

Track capital and major maintenance projects in Unit and forecasts upcoming projects needed within the dept.

Identify and support the development as well as implementation of opportunities to improve: safety, cost and reliability in order to meet the Corporation’s expectations of year-over-year improvements.

This role is required to participate in weekend duty rotating coverage.

About You: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Post-secondary degree in Engineering, Wood Products, Forestry or significant experience operating/maintaining/leading unit operations of similar complexity

Track record of motivating others and working across boundaries to achieve challenging goals

Drive to lead, troubleshoot, solve problems and optimize performance

Minimum 2 years’ experience in a leadership role

Planning and Coordinating Operations/Maintenance Outages

Priority Setting, Conflict Management, Building Effective Teams, Problem Solving, Meeting Budgets

Proficiency using computer software (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, SAP)

Our GCF business helps customers transform renewable cellulose fibers into essential everyday products. Our safe, high-quality pulp forms the basis for a wide range of applications like towel and tissue products, diapers, feminine care, incontinence and other personal care products that promote health and wellness. In addition, our specialty pulp serves as a sustainable raw material used in construction materials, paints, coatings and more. GCF generated $2.8B in revenue in 2024 and has 3,300 employees globally, with nine manufacturing facilities and eight regional offices. Additional information can be found by visiting globalcellulosefibers.com.

Global Cellulose Fibers 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.

At Global Cellulose Fibers, our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits package that includes health, welfare and retirement plans. We are proud to offer a variety of benefits to support our employees and their families, including:

Paid time off including Vacation and Holidays

Medical & Dental

Pension Plan

Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement)

Life & Disability Insurance

On-site Cafeteria

On-site Nurse

Strong Safety Culture