Implement week one of the October production plan and evaluate compliance

What is going on

The Production Plan for October to December 2026 has been approved with a quarterly target of 47,500 saleable tonnes at 88 per cent efficiency, a repeating grade cycle, a 36-hour shutdown from 17 October and fibre and environmental targets. Week one starts on 1 October with fluting grades. Customer orders from four box plants must be allocated to the cycle, fibre yard stock is 5,400 tonnes with a held contractor load, refiner 2 needs a plate inspection, and the recovery boiler exceedance investigation is open. The General Manager also wants an evaluation of how the pulp line and effluent plant are tracking against the environmental licence and the quality system before the external audit on 3 November.

Your brief

Convert the approved plan into a week one schedule that allocates orders, confirms fibre, chemical and maintenance readiness and briefs supervisors, and prepare an evaluation of the pulp line and effluent plant against regulatory and quality requirements with findings and actions for the production meeting.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Production Plan and the Quality Policy and list the week one targets, the grade cycle rules, the shutdown scope freeze date and the quality records required for each dispatch.
• Allocate the four customer orders described in the context to the week one grade cycle, showing the run order, tonnes and the grade change points, and explain how you minimised grade change losses.
• Confirm readiness by reviewing the fibre yard shift log record, the Maintenance Work Orders for refiner 2 and chip conveyor 2, and the Permit to Work Register, and list the actions needed before 1 October with owners.
• Prepare a supervisor briefing pack for week one covering the schedule, the quality tests per grade, the environmental internal targets and the open safety items from the Incident and Hazard Register.
• Evaluate the pulp line and effluent plant performance against the environmental licence using the Environmental Discharge and Emissions Log and the open incident, and record findings with the evidence.
• Evaluate the quality system records for the pulp line against the Quality Policy, including certificates of analysis, nonconforming product and complaint handling, and identify gaps before the external audit.
• Assess one emerging technology or process improvement relevant to the site's improvement priorities and state the evidence you would need before recommending it.
• Write the production meeting paper with the week one schedule, readiness actions, compliance findings, audit preparation actions and the safety management items you will raise.

What someone in this role would produce

• Week one schedule with order allocation
• Readiness action list with owners
• Supervisor briefing pack
• Compliance evaluation with findings and evidence
• Production meeting paper