Reliability Coordinator (Heat Recovery Steam Generation)

Position Title: 

HRGS, Reliability Coordinator (Heat Recovery Steam Generation) 

Pay Rate: 

$108,200-$144,300

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Variable pay may provide additional opportunities for financial awards. This job is eligible to participate in IP’s short –term incentive plan.

Category/Shift: 

Salaried Full-Time 

Physical Location: 

601 County Rd 78

Selma, Al

The Power & Recovery Boiler Reliability Outage Coordinator is responsible for the reliability, inspection, and outage execution of all steam‑producing and recovery‑related assets, including power boilers, recovery boilers, bark boilers, HRSG, black liquor evaporators, high pressure piping (650psi and above) and electrostatic precipitators. This role ensures safe, efficient, and cost‑effective outage performance while driving long‑term reliability improvements across the mill’s power and recovery systems.

The manager leads outage strategy, develops detailed work scopes, oversees contractor execution, and ensures compliance with corporate reliability standards, orange book standards, manufacturing alerts, environmental regulations, insurance requirements, and pressure‑vessel codes.

The Job You Will Perform: 

Outage Leadership & Execution

• Lead all scheduled and forced outages for boilers, ESPs, associated systems, and evaporator annual outages.
• Develop outage work scopes including inspections, NDE, pressure‑part repairs, evaporator cleaning/inspection, ESP rebuilds, and critical path planning.
• Coordinate multi‑disciplinary teams including operations, maintenance, contractors, OEMs, and corporate engineering.
• Work with the area teams to develop a detailed integrated schedule. 
• Manage outage schedules, resource loading, daily progress reporting, and critical path control.
• Oversee contractor performance, safety compliance, and quality assurance.

Reliability Engineering & Asset Health

• Perform and oversee inspections of boilers, evaporators, and precipitators, documenting condition, degradation mechanisms, and repair recommendations.
• Diagnose reliability issues such as fouling, plugging, corrosion, tube failures, ESP performance degradation, and evaporator capacity loss.
• Integrate findings into long‑range reliability plans and capital planning.
• Champion predictive and preventive maintenance improvements, including RCM‑based diagnostics and inspection interval optimization.
• Maintain quarterly boiler leak reports for corporate

Environmental & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure ESP reliability and performance meet environmental permit requirements.
• Support compliance with NBIC, ASME, state boiler codes, and mill environmental standards.
• Lead outage activities that directly impact emissions, steam balance, and chemical recovery efficiency.

Financial & Project Management

• Manage outage budgets, procurement, contractor cost tracking, and financial forecasting.
• Prepare and deliver post‑outage reports, lessons learned, and reliability improvement plans.
• Support unscheduled downtime events with rapid technical guidance and repair coordination.

The Skills You Will Bring: 

Required

• A team player with 10+ years of experience in boiler, evaporator, or power‑plant maintenance, inspection, or outage management.
• Strong knowledge of boiler pressure‑part systems, evaporator operation, ESP systems, and NDE methods.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, complex outages with contractors and OEM field representatives.
• Proficiency with scheduling tools (MS Project).
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Preferred

• Experience with recovery boiler operations or pulp/paper mill power systems.
• RCM, RCA, or reliability engineering background.
• Knowledge of NBIC, ASME codes, and pressure‑vessel inspection standards.
• Experience with PI‑based condition monitoring or degradation detection systems.
• SAP work flown, budgeting and cost management experience.