Asset Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Dixie® Consumer Products Operation is seeking qualified professionals to consider for an Asset Leader role supporting the Consumer Products Group Operations located in NW Arkansas in Fort Smith.

The Fort Smith facility uses state of the art technology to manufacture Dixie® plates and bowls in a progressive production environment.

Dixie® is a brand of choice and is widely used in homes and businesses across the country.

This role will be critical in providing asset strategies and implementations for our operations team.

Our Team

If you have a passion around continuous improvement and creating value to drive performance results in a manufacturing facility, then we would love to talk to you.

We are looking for an individual who has a business owner mindset to drive human resource initiatives and create value for the organization.

Strengths in leadership, manufacturing and developing others will be key in the success of this role.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated capability creating proactive and responsive solutions to business needs and will play an intricate part in leading and developing employees in the printing area.

What You Will Do


* Support maintenance activities by developing, implementing, and monitoring asset strategies for production equipment


* Identify and address improvement opportunities in the manufacturing processes and equipment, including risk reduction, quality improvement, waste reduction and productivity


* Facilitate Root Cause Analysis of manufacturing processes and equipment issues


* Assist in raw materials trials to evaluate performance and cost improvement opportunities


* Participate in plant streamlining and optimization as well as standardize work


* Lead reliability and continuous improvement activities


* Lead management of change activities as required


* Develop and lead equipment modification, installation and start up activities as needed


* Prepare project justification and benefits analysis as needed


* Lead onsite resources as well as contractor teams to deliver required work according to project needs


* Specify modifications to process equipment

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Associate degree or higher and/or five (4) or more years of experience working in an operations or maintenance role in a manufacturing, industrial or military environment


* Experience using SAP, AutoCAD or other engineering software


* Experience using Microsoft Office Software such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering


* Experience with Lean Manufacturing tools


* Experience with automation equipment


* Printing experience


* Equipment and/or manufacturing systems reliability experience


* Previous training in a maintenance/reliability system


* Project Engineering experience in a manufacturing environment

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