WestRock Company · 2 weeks ago
Maintenance & Engineering Manager
Stevenson, AL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expWestRock is seeking a dynamic and safety driven Maintenance & Engineering Manager for their Stevenson, Alabama Paper Mill. The role involves providing leadership for maintenance and engineering functions, ensuring operational stability, and driving continuous improvement in maintenance processes and reliability strategies.
CommercialManufacturingPackaging ServicesPaper ManufacturingSustainability
Responsibilities
Lead with safety as the uncompromising top priority, modeling safe behaviors and driving proactive risk reduction across all maintenance and engineering activities
Demonstrate a strong sense of urgency—rapidly assess situations, allocate resources, and implement effective short and long term plans to maintain operational stability
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
Build strong internal partnerships, promoting alignment and teamwork across Operations, Safety, Finance, and other mill functions
Lead and enforce the safety program for all maintenance personnel and contractors; ensure compliance with Mill, Company, State, and Federal regulations
Promote a culture of critical thinking, robust troubleshooting, and ownership—strengthening the mill’s capability to identify root causes and prevent recurrence
Continuously review equipment and system performance to minimize unplanned downtime, strengthen asset reliability, and identify improvement opportunities
Support and partner with reliability on all preventive, predictive, and condition based maintenance programs—electrical, instrumentation, controls, automation, and mechanical
Implement and sustain maintenance excellence through EPAM (Enterprise Process Asset Management), with a strong focus on planning, scheduling, and precision maintenance
Maintain and optimize systems for work order management, spare parts usage, and equipment history tracking; monitor and improve KPIs such as asset utilization, PM/WO completion rates, and maintenance cost performance
Ensure all maintenance team members and contractors are properly trained, equipped, and motivated to deliver safe, high quality work efficiently
Provide coaching, development, and performance management to build a high performing, engaged team
Support and partner with Facilities Manager on long term infrastructure and reliability planning to safeguard future asset performance
Manage the effective use of internal labor and contractors, including oversight of various long term contract agreements
Plan and coordinate all annual maintenance shutdowns to ensure flawless execution and safe, timely startup
Collaborate with Stores and Accounting to maintain optimal spare parts levels and control inventory investments
Ensure compliance with insurance recommendations, environmental standards, and all city, county, state, and federal requirements
Manage the full lifecycle of capital and major maintenance projects, including bid packages, budgets, schedules, and issue resolution
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering
5–15 years of maintenance, engineering, or related leadership experience
Experience in a unionized environment
Exceptional communication skills across all organizational levels—from senior leaders and technical specialists to hourly technicians
Demonstrated ability to lead a diverse, multi discipline team in both supervisory and technical capacities
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
Proven ability to organize resources, set clear priorities, and drive execution with discipline and urgency
Strong organizational, strategic thinking, and team building capabilities
Preferred
Pulp and paper manufacturing experience
Company
WestRock Company
Smurfit Westrock is the global leader of paper-based packaging solutions.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
WestRock Company has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (7)
2024 (14)
2023 (25)
2022 (8)
2021 (24)
2020 (21)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2023-09-12Acquired
2015-07-02IPO
Leadership Team
S
Samuel Shoemaker
President, Consumer Packaging
Recent News
2026-01-09
Company data provided by crunchbase