Job ID

ATR59255

Posting Job Title

Assistant Superintendent - Power & Utilities

Locations

GA Dublin

Employment Type

Full Time

Date Posted

03-Mar-2026

Relocation Support

Yes

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions. We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts with a shared purpose: Innovate Boldly. Package Sustainably. Guided by our values of integrity, respect, accountability and excellence, we use leading science and technology to move fiber-based packaging forward.

Power & Utilities Assistant Superintendent – Dublin, GA

Job Summary: The Power & Utilities Assistant Superintendent serves as a first-line supervisor directing the work of shift operators and trades people in the utility plant and power plant. As a first-line leader, this role is responsible for establishing safety, quality, cost, and operating output.

Major Job Responsibilities:

Business Excellence

· Direct power & utility teams to ensure manufacturing standards are met by leveraging processes and assets.

· Achieve safety, environment, quality standards to meet and exceed performance and production metrics through use of industry best practices.

· Proactively set and manage departmental metrics that impact cost (e.g., downtime, reliability, volume and waste).

· Formulate solutions to minimize lead time and maximize product quality, productivity, and profit margin.

· Forecast financial requirements to inform annual budget development, schedule expenditures, analyze variances, and capital projects.

· Maintain records, prepare reports, and compose correspondence relative to the work being performed.

· Provide technical expertise when necessary to resolve operational issues.

· Champion of maintaining or enhancing a culture of continuous improvement.

People and Culture

· Coordinates activities by scheduling work assignments, setting priorities, and directing the work of subordinate employees.

· Ensure staffing is appropriate to meet workload requirements and productivity standards.

· Develop coaching plans to ensure timely and consistent feedback to employees and conduct annual performance reviews.

· Identifies staff development and training needs and ensures that training is obtained.

· Analyze root causes and solve employee or customer issues effectively and in a timely manner.

· Foster a team atmosphere, provide vision, and demonstrate support of the company’s core values.

· Work cross-functionally with department heads to create a long-term strategic plan to forecast mill/plant performance.

· Provide a safe work environment for employees and ensure compliance with environmental policies and procedures.

Critical Skills / Capabilities:

· Leadership: Leads and motivates a team of people to achieve performance excellence; ability to read people and situations and adjust approach, accordingly; proactively leads and enforces initiatives that drive organizational effectiveness; teaches others how to build trust-based relationships

· Problem-Solving: Applies knowledge to frame, simplify and solve complex issues; focuses on identifying root causes to create solutions in a timely and decisive manner; reconciles conflicting and/or incomplete information to develop solutions

· Decision-Making: Uses strong problem-solving skills and supporting information to arrive at optimal decisions in an appropriate timeframe; knows when to decide and/or when to seek additional input, and drive for consensus

· Strategic Thinking: Develops short and long-term courses of action that support the organization's overall vision and mission; balances business, technical, and operational issues when determining a strategy; identifies problems with current strategies and suggests ways to resolve them; incorporates knowledge of WestRock’s goals/strategy as well as competitive, customer, supplier, industry, or marketplace trends into strategic plans; capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks

· Communication: Creates and delivers engaging presentations to internal and external audiences; develops new communication strategies and approaches to communicate data, insights, and critical messages resulting in clear understanding

· Growth and Results Oriented: Delivers personal or organizational results by successfully influencing others (i.e. co-workers, other teams, external partners, etc.) within a matrixed organization; delivers high quality work within the stipulated time period to achieve maximum results

· Process-Oriented: Plans, designs, and manages processes while focusing on refining and improving to increase efficiency and effectiveness; understands process inputs, activities, outputs, roles and sequencing

Technical Skills:

· Microsoft Office- Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

· Process Management

· Data historian software (i.e., Process Book)

Work Environment:

· Frequently works indoors, in an environment that is climate controlled

· Occasionally works outdoors in natural environmental conditions (both hot and cold)

· Occasionally works indoors in an environment that is not climate controlled and has high temperatures

· Occasionally works indoors in an environment that is not climate controlled and has low temperatures

· The role is frequently sedentary, which entails sitting or being stationary

· Occasionally stands or walks for 3-6 hours at a time

· Occasionally stands or walks for more than 6 hours at a time

· Noisy work environment; maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations

· Fast paced work J.I.T (just-in-time) environment

Experience:

· Required: 7 to 10 years of supervisory experience in pulp and paper manufacturing

· Preferred: Paper engineering, chemical engineering, or integrated paper mill experience

Education:

· Required: High school diploma or G.E.D equivalent

· Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.