Pulp Mill (Medium Mill) Optimizer

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Pulp Mill (Medium Mill) Optimizer to join our team in Big Island, Va. This position will be part of the Pulp Mill (Medium Mill) consisting of an Area Leader, Gatekeeper, AAL, and two Optimizers covering two paper machines and pulp mill. The Pulp Mill (Medium Mill) Optimizer assists with strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operation objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost.

The successful candidate will focus on improving safety, quality, productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement. The Optimizer will be able to effectively manage many high priority tasks and projects with a sense of urgency and possess problem-solving skills with the ability to utilize a constructive challenge process to drive to the optimum solution. Ability to build relationships and communicate with different levels of the organization are important to be successful in this role.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Big Island is a fully integrated containerboard mill that employs 300 employees and continues to benefit from extensive capital investment. This position is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding organization with tremendous growth potential.

What You Will Do

• Driving a culture of safety, quality, and environmental excellence
• Coach and develop employees
• Respond to machine downtime and off-quality events focusing on root cause identification and minimizing losses
• Building TCC's and coaching expectations
• Assist with both outage and routine maintenance planning
• Understanding, communicating, and aligning goals in quality, production, safety, and reliability
• Driving process & equipment modifications that result in improved product quality
• Ensuring major quality non-conformance events are identified, owned, investigated and effective corrective actions are implemented to mitigate / eliminate waste
• Leading teams in the identification, evaluation, development and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that add the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement
• Providing leadership through the application of Koch's Principle Based Management philosophy to achieve superior results

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of paper mill operations experience OR 5 years of paper machine operations experience
• Willingness to continuously learn leadership, management and paper making process
• Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

What Will Put You Ahead

• Five (5) or more years of supervisory experience in multiple areas in the paper industry.
• Experience managing in a labor union environment.
• Organization optimization experience.

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Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).