Maintenance Planner, Thunder Bay Sawmill

Focused on both environmental stewardship and financial success, Resolute Forest Products offers promising and fulfilling job opportunities, where motivated individuals have every chance to accelerate their careers. If you are passionate and ready to make a difference, Resolute is the company that will assure you of success.

Our Thunder Bay location in Ontario, Canada is currently seeking talent to fill the position of Maintenance Planner, Thunder Bay Sawmill. This job is permanent, full-time.

**Sawmill Manager, Ignace Sawmill**

**The Mill Manager reports to the General Manager, Ontario Sawmills. The Mill Manager is directly responsible for the Ignace manufacturing operation and the interface between woodlands, sales and marketing. The responsibilities include all aspects of the business from the safety of all the employees to the business performance, including administration and labor relations.**

**Your Challenges**:

- Leadership that results in an effective and positive operation and employee collaboration and ownership of results
- Institute and maintain progressive employee training and development programs and a succession plan for the Ignace operation
- Manage all labour relations, manpower and scheduling requirements
- Maintain progressive implementation of the appropriate work systems, and service and supply contracts
- Develop yearly and five-year capital and operating plans for operations
- Oversee budgets to ensure good cost control and decision making
- Maintain continuous improvement program and maintenance systems to maximize performance in business KPI’s
- Optimize product values through coordination between lumber sales and sawmill and Atikokan planer operations for best product strategy and product distribution
- Ensure optimal quality and fibre recovery through process optimization and quality control
- Coordinate inventories to optimize working capital
- Ensure product quality (lumber, chips, bark, sawdust and shavings) meets customer needs and lumber grade standards
- Effective communication between business units, employees, customers and the community
- Enforcement and support of corporate policies and procedures
- Maintain security of assets

**Your team**:

- Reporting to the General Manager, Ontario Sawmills, you will be part of a results-oriented team whose members are motivated to exceed expectations.

**Your profile**:

- Bachelor’s degree or technical diploma
- A minimum of ten years of equivalent experience in forest products manufacturing operations
- Demonstrated progression in leadership roles in a manufacturing setting

**Your assets and skills**
- Excellent communication skills (spoken and written); bilingualism an asset
- Ability to assume responsibility, manage multiple priorities and collaboratively drive issues to closure;
- Ability to make appropriate decisions rapidly on the basis of experience and judgment even when you have incomplete information and/or you are under pressure.
- Strong attention to detail combined with the ability to see the big picture;
- Ability to work as part of a team, to communicate with all levels of the organization and to adapt quickly to change;

In order to be eligible for this position, you must be legally entitled to work in Canada for our company.

Resolute Forest Products is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. We will accommodate the needs of applicants under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please advise the Human Resources Division to ensure your accessibility needs are accommodated throughout this process.

Forest products are essential, as are each and every one of our employees and contractors. We take the necessary steps to protect the health and well-being of our employees and to safeguard the integrity of all Resolute facilities.

We are all in this together. We are one community. We are #RESOLUTEPROUD

**Jobs where you grow**
We are a global leader in the forest products industry offering a dynamic and safe work environment with opportunities and challenges that will help develop your skills.

With a diverse range of pulp, paper, tissue and wood products sold in over 70 countries, Resolute owns or operates some 40 facilities, as well as power generation assets, in Canada and the United States.

We are a company writing a new story for itself in a rapidly changing industry. We have made important inroads to ensure long-term profitability and to be an environmental supplier of choice. In order to remain a leader in our field, we are looking for individuals who are driven and eager to learn. Come take part of our history and be part of the change

**How are we building the Resolute of the future?**

**Join the conversation**

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