Manufacturing Excellence Specialist

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is looking for qualified professionals to be one of our Manufacturing Excellence Specialists (MES), supporting transformational improvements in our Consumer Products and Packaging and Cellulose operations.

The Manufacturing Excellence Specialist (MES) will use leadership, influence, continuous improvement methods, operating discipline, project management skills, manufacturing experience, and communication capabilities to implement or support rapid transformational improvements for priority initiatives.

Types of initiatives can be diverse but will typically improve sites' competitive position in production, cost, quality, risk reduction, and organizational effectiveness.

The success of this role will be measured in how effectively and efficiently manufacturing sites can deliver on transformation through prioritized initiatives against measured baselines and targets.

As such, MES's will need the ability and courage to coach, partner with, and effectively and constructively challenge several different levels of leadership, from senior leaders to front-line leaders, as well as front-line operating and maintenance technicians.

What You Will Do



* Support creation and deployment of improvements and standards, working with employees at all levels to help facilitate, train and track progress


* Leads and facilitates improvement teams and individual improvement projects aligned with operations priorities


* Participates hands-on as a team member, problem solving resource, or group facilitator on improvement teams as required


* Learns and practices disciplined operations / daily management systems / operational excellence tools and techniques


* Collaborates with Learning & Development, Manufacturing Excellence Leaders, and key operations stakeholders to support the development, documentation, training, sustainment and improvement of standardized work.


* Required to present, educate, train and facilitate at mfg.

sites


* Communicate with strong written (Microsoft Outlook and Teams) and oral communication, facilitation and presentation skills


* Take risks, challenge the status quo and work under ambiguous circumstances

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Must be able to prioritize multiple projects, perform complex tasks, organize and follow through consistently and work under pressure to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment


* Ability to influence upward, across and down without formal authority


* 5 or more years of experience working within a manufacturing or industrial setting


* Experience with driving manufacturing change against targeted initiatives (i.e., working toward the end goals of EHS Excellence; Quality, Productivity, Cost Competitiveness, and Disciplined Operations) to create value


* Willing and able to travel domestically up to 50% (M-F) with occasional weekend travel.


* Basic knowledge and experience using problem-solving and continuous ...