Pulp Optimizer

Your Job

Georgia Pacific is seeking qualified candidates to consider for a Pulp Mill Assistant Superintendent (Optimizer) to join our team in Brewton, Alabama.

This position will provide strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operation objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost.

The successful candidate will focus on safely improving productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement.

This position will report to the Pulp Area Leader.

Our Team

The Brewton mill is located in south central Alabama about an hour from Mobile, AL, Pensacola, FL, and the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast.

The team is made up of 450 employees who produce white top linerboard and solid bleached sulfate (SBS) paperboard.

The SBS material is used to make GP's Dixie plates.

White top linerboard is used in production of corrugated containers and displays.

This position is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding organization with tremendous growth potential.

The most recent $160M capital investment is expected to be completed in late 2024.

Brewton was also the first fully integrated pulp and paper mill in the US to receive an Energy Star designation from the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency.

What You Will Do



* Driving a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation.


* Providing operational/business leadership and technical support for the manufacturing process and facilitate troubleshooting and problem solving to achieve goals


* Working with Unit Coaches to coach and develop employees.


* Leading teams in the identification, development, evaluation and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects to drive continuous improvement and add the highest value.


* Coordinating with other team members to plan outage and routine maintenance.


* Using strong problem-solving skills and the constructive challenge process to drive to the optimum solution.


* Effectively managing many high priority tasks / projects with a sense of urgency.


* Driving process & equipment improvements that result in better product quality, reduced variability and higher customer satisfaction.


* Utilizing strong communication (written and verbal), organizational, and planning/scheduling/execution skills.


* Employing strong interpersonal skills to influence change in the department and the process.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Bachelor of Science degree - Engineering, Pulp and Paper Science, Forestry, or other technical discipline


* Minimum of three (3) years of pulp/paper industry experience


* Experience developing and implementing process improvements and projects.


* Experience using Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Outlook.


* Knowledge of pulp mill processes, along with the fun...