Westrock is seeking a Maintenance & Engineering Manager to provide decisive leadership for all maintenance and engineering functions at their Stevenson, Alabama Paper Mill, ensuring systems, processes, and reliability strategies are executed with excellence to maximize productivity, quality, and cost effectiveness.
Requirements
- Strong competency with business systems, computer applications, and maintenance management tools.
- Ability to implement sustainable systems for cost tracking, forecasting, and reporting in partnership with Accounting.
- Experience with preventive, predictive, and condition based maintenance programs—electrical, instrumentation, controls, automation, and mechanical.
- Knowledge of EPAM (Enterprise Process Asset Management)
- Experience with work order management, spare parts usage, and equipment history tracking
- Ability to monitor and improve KPIs such as asset utilization, PM/WO completion rates, and maintenance cost performance
- Experience with maintenance budgeting and cost optimization
Responsibilities
- Lead with safety as the uncompromising top priority, modeling safe behaviors and driving proactive risk reduction across all maintenance and engineering activities.
- Elevate work systems and reliability practices, ensuring maintenance processes are disciplined, consistent, and continuously improved.
- Develop, manage, and optimize the maintenance budget while balancing operational needs and cost stewardship.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, enabling teams to streamline workflows, eliminate waste, and strengthen reliability fundamentals through data driven decisions.
- Provide strategic and tactical direction for the maintenance and engineering departments to meet current and future organizational needs.
- Proactively define, execute, and communicate the Capital Project Improvement Plan, including 5 year outlook and in year project implementation.
- Implement and sustain maintenance excellence through EPAM (Enterprise Process Asset Management), with a strong focus on planning, scheduling, and precision maintenance.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering Preferred.
- 5–15 years of maintenance, engineering, or related leadership experience.
- Experience in a unionized environment.
- Pulp and paper manufacturing experience preferred.
- Exceptional communication skills across all organizational levels
