Where you will work

The Shelby location is Clearwater Paper’s newest consumer products facility, boasting two paper mills located on 400 acres with over 600 talented employees. We are proud to produce a variety of high-quality premium and ultra-premium bathroom tissue, household paper towels, and napkins for major retail outlets throughout the United States. Our state-of-the-art technology includes 10 converting lines, 54 laser-guided vehicles, and 2 paper machines producing large quantities at high speed. Employees in Shelby are hard-working and proud to provide a quality product in an essential industry.

Shelby is a small-town community in North Carolina’s Piedmont region with close proximity to bustling downtown Charlotte and the beautiful mountain village of Asheville. Shelby’s community of art, music, and government all take place in the Uptown Shelby historic district. Uptown Shelby is home to a large square, local businesses, and a variety of restaurants surrounding The Courthouse Square. The local pavilion hosts weekly Farmers Markets and weekend concerts. There is plenty of opportunity for activity in Shelby with groups that engage in hiking, cycling, running, CrossFit, and yoga. The Cleveland County Fair is the largest county agricultural fair in North Carolina held in the fall each year. Shelby offers a variety of opportunities for social service including the Boys & Girls Club, United Way, Communities and Schools, and Children’s Home of Cleveland County. Shelby is proud of its local schools including several K-12 and high schools, trade schools and community colleges.

What you will do
Production Unit Scheduling

• Demonstrate high energy and urgency in a fast-paced environment to resolve issues quickly
• Firming, converting, and releasing of production orders to meet inventory targets and customer orders
• Follow-up and close monitoring of exceptions and critical /rush orders
• Partner with operations to enable the mill to meet stated production and service metrics
• Collaborate with operations to minimize unit changeovers and maximize their efficiencies
• Use work-related software (JDE/VCP) to their fullest capabilities
• Plans and establishes production schedules to meet customer service level agreements (SLA’s)
• Develop production schedules that minimize both operational and transportation costs while meeting customer delivery deadlines
• Communicate clearly to the appropriate parties about deviations and delays to the schedule and customer orders

Inventory Management

• Work with packaging buyers and paper planners to review raw materials inventories to ensure that they are available for current schedules and if necessary, help develop a plan to obtain the needed raw material
• Responsible for notifying packaging buyers, paper planners, customer service and transportation of schedule changes within the locked period
• Release product transfers daily to the appropriate warehouses
• Responsible for reviewing and monitoring the inventory health report. Acts as needed to keep inventory in a healthy range

Other Duties

• Schedule outside converting and perform the associated transactions, as needed
• Balances customer service needs with operational efficiencies
• Attend operations meetings to review schedules and participates as an active member of the mill leadership team
• Coordinate and lead meetings with production departments, deployment planner and customer service representatives regarding production schedules and to mitigate issues
• Provide backup and vacation relief for other planning department positions
• Actively drive and participate in continuous improvement activities

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision-making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others’ knowledge and skills.
• Identifies barriers that impact customer service and retention; communicates concerns and recommendations to others.
• Uses understanding of customer needs and the organization’s customer service practices to set priorities, make decisions, and take actions that create customer satisfaction and prevent service issues from occurring.
• Creates relevant options for addressing problems and opportunities that will achieve desired outcomes.
• Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results.

What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Material Management or Operations Management
• Two plus years’ experience in manufacturing, preferably with a production planning / purchasing / projects or order management background
• Demonstrated understanding of the demand triggers in manufacturing and their interdependencies (sales, production, work orders)
• Demonstrated knowledge of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, preferably JDE/Oracle and understanding of master data in an integrated system
• Must have the ability to communicate and interface effectively with internal work groups
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills required
• Highly motivated and results-oriented with ability to work under pressure
• Team player, positive attitude, excellent initiative, and problem-solving abilities
• Proven analytical thinker; shows ability to analyze complex and sometimes conflicting data to reach logical conclusions
• Strong organizational skills and proven ability to multiple tasks simultaneously
• Primarily office environment
• Keyboarding; long periods of sitting and viewing computer monitor
• Must wear required Personal Protective Equipment in the manufacturing environment

Clearwater Paper does 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 will not require Clearwater Paper's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)