Director-Siding Project Engineering and Reliability

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP Building Solutions) is a leading provider of high-performance building solutions that meet the demands of builders, remodelers, and homeowners worldwide. We manufacture engineered wood building products that include an extensive offering of innovative and dependable building materials and accessories. LP’s values-driven culture creates an environment where talented and hardworking people thrive in an ethical, inclusive, challenging, and rewarding place to work. Since our founding in 1972, we’ve developed careers and provided advancement opportunities in the building products industry. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, LP operates more than 20 facilities across North and South America. For more information, visit LPCorp.com.

JOB PURPOSE:
To provide leadership in the Siding Business to support capacity growth and production through strategic capital projects and plant reliability programs. Lead the development and execution of large capital projects and manufacturing excellence through plant reliability programs. Work collaboratively with Siding and corporate functions on key pillars of the business strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Provide leadership, vision, teamwork, and communication to execute key Siding capital growth projects.
•Lead and coordinate external engineering and equipment supply firms as required for the safe, cost effective, and on-timeexecution of large capital projects. Build a direct and indirect internal team to achieve goals.
•Work closely with the Siding BEM and other key stakeholders to ensure projects have the required engineering standards,guidance, and SME support.
•Develop and manage project budget and manage performance against it.
•Supervise and manage assigned staff; recruit, train, coach and evaluate performance.
•Work closely with Siding and OSB business teams to develop and maintain near and midterm (3year) capital investment portfolioroll-up. Participate in analysis to support effective capital investment in sustaining maintenance and strategic projects.
•Responsible for providing leadership, coaching and resources to continually develop engineering personnel.
•Identify key training skills, development and individual personnel objectives to enhance personnel value and return to both theCompany and business.
•Lead the Siding Business Reliability group. Professionally and systematically define, design, develop, monitor and refine AssetMaintenance Plans that includes value-added preventive maintenance tasks and effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.
•Work with operations leadership to develop programs for key areas of reliability, solutions to repetitive failures and all otherproblems that adversely affect plant operations.
•Responsible for personnel growth and development.
•Perform all duties in accordance with safety rules and regulations.
•Perform other duties as necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
•Strong leadership skills.
•Able to represent strategic capital investments and reliability program to senior leadership.
•Ability to engender confidence and work effectively across multiple interfaces and organizational lines.
•Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
•Excellent collaboration skills.
•Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
•Thorough knowledge of effective management and supervisory methods.
•Skill in supervising and coaching employees.
•Skill in budget development and management.
•Ability to influence outcomes in environments of competing priorities without direct authority.
•Ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects.
•Ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Knowledge of company’s businesses and manufacturing processes.

Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required.
• Masters degree in related field preferred.

Experience:
• Minimum 10-15 years’ engineering and management experience with in-depth skill set in both areas.
• Strong track record of successfully leading capital project planning and execution and operational maintenance improvement.
• Proven/demonstrated ability to provide leadership and clarity to personnel and organizations both internally and externally. Experience in leading teams is desired.
• Progressive responsibilities dealing with large organizations (multi-location, multi-function), experiencing complex and rapid changes.
Or any combination of experience and training that demonstrates the ability to perform the key responsibilities of this position.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
• Office Environment
• Occasional travel to various locations required.

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LP offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits and programs including health and welfare benefits, 401(k) program, career mobility, tuition reimbursement, volunteer opportunities, profit sharing and more.