Assistant Superintendent - Kraft Linerboard Paper Machine

At Hood Container, we're looking for an experienced operations and maintenance professional who is ready to take the next step in their leadership career. As an Assistant Paper Machine Superintendent, you'll play a critical role in maximizing the safety, reliability, and performance of our paper machine operations.

This position serves as the bridge between production, maintenance, engineering, and reliability teams, ensuring work is planned, coordinated, and executed efficiently while supporting world-class safety and operational excellence. If you enjoy solving problems, coordinating complex work, leading teams, and improving equipment performance, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact.

What You'll Do

Lead Safe and Efficient Operations

• Champion a strong safety culture and ensure all work is performed safely and in compliance with established procedures.
• Coordinate equipment preparation, permitting, and lockout/tagout activities to support maintenance and operational work.
• Ensure required resources, materials, permits, and personnel are in place before work begins.
• Support critical safety processes including hot work, confined space entry, line break permits, and energy isolation procedures.

Drive Maintenance and Production Coordination

• Lead daily coordination meetings between operations and maintenance teams.
• Develop and manage daily, weekly, and outage maintenance schedules.
• Prioritize maintenance activities based on safety, production impact, and equipment criticality.
• Coordinate equipment downtime and maintenance windows to minimize operational disruptions.
• Partner with maintenance teams to ensure planned work is completed safely, effectively, and on schedule.

Improve Reliability and Machine Performance

• Serve as the primary communication link between operators, maintenance personnel, engineers, and supervisors.
• Troubleshoot equipment and process issues while ensuring accurate information is shared across teams.
• Participate in root cause investigations and corrective action development.
• Identify recurring equipment or operational challenges and help implement sustainable solutions.
• Assist in developing standard operating procedures, outage plans, and job plans for major repairs and recurring maintenance activities.
• Capture lessons learned and best practices to improve future planning and execution.

Support Outages and Major Maintenance Events

• Develop detailed outage plans, including lockout requirements, operational tasks, timelines, and workforce responsibilities.
• Coordinate operational readiness for planned shutdowns and turnarounds.
• Ensure operators and supervisors understand expectations and preparations required for maintenance activities.

Manage Critical Materials and Supplies

• Monitor and manage key process chemical inventories.
• Partner with purchasing and storeroom teams to maintain critical spare parts and operational supplies.
• Help ensure essential machine components and maintenance materials are available when needed.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Experience in paper mill operations, maintenance, or a related industrial manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of safety systems, maintenance planning, and equipment reliability.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Excel, Word, and related software applications.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Supervisory or leadership experience in a paper mill environment.
• Experience working on a kraft linerboard machine preferred.
• Mechanical maintenance experience.
• Experience coordinating maintenance outages, shutdowns, or reliability improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of paper machine systems and papermaking processes.

Here's Why You'll Love Working at Hood Container

• Make an Impact: Lead a critical operation that directly influences safety, product quality, customer satisfaction, and mill performance.
• Competitive Rewards: Enjoy a competitive salary, annual bonus opportunity, and comprehensive benefits package designed to support you and your family.
• People-First Culture: Work alongside a collaborative team that values leadership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Career Growth & Stability: Join a financially strong company committed to investing in its people, operations, and future growth.
• Great Location: Experience the charm of St. Francisville, Louisiana, offering a high quality of life, outstanding outdoor recreation, and small-town living just minutes from Baton Rouge.

Our goal is to have a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens and customers we serve. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

Hood Container Corporation is a family-owned, Mill to Market company, specializing in containerboard and kraft paper, corrugated boxes, high graphic displays, and contract packaging. Our commitment to customer happiness, employee well-being, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence drive our business. Over the last decade, Hood Container Corporation has grown to become one of the top ten Paper and Packaging Companies in the United States. To learn more about Hood Container Corporation visit www.hoodcontainer.com or check us out on social media!