Technical Manager
Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Technical Manager for our Prosperity Plywood mill in Prosperity, S.C.
The Technical Manager will utilize leadership, influence, operations experience, and communication abilities to analyze key performance data on process, product, and equipment to identify strategic improvements that create value.
This position provides process engineering oversight for the entire manufacturing process, reliability to improve quality, increase production and yield, and minimize waste.
The incumbent is responsible for working with team members at all levels to capture strategic value opportunities and implementing operating practices to improve Prosperity's competitive position.
What You Will Do
* Be a safety role model and show a high level of safety awareness and help drive.
* Actively promote and develop forward looking practices, procedures and techniques that foster an operating posture that models' "perfect" operations of all machine centers.
* Work with Integrated Planning, Sales and Marketing, and Wood Supply teams to ensure mill optimization parameters drive maximum value creation.
* Develop, analyze, and report performance metrics for machine centers, departments, and the mill.
Identify improvement opportunities, execute plans with appropriate team members, and track success.
* Troubleshoot and address equipment issues affecting optimization and positioning.
* Continuously evaluate machine performance in the mill through daily analysis, checks, calibrations, and proactive approaches.
* Institute recovery control measures and monitoring procedures to minimize fiber loss due to out-of-control processes.
* Collaborate with outside vendors and technicians as required to maintain mill optimization systems.
* Maintain constant communication with controls technicians on opportunities to improve mill flow, reduce process variation, and improve machine execution.
* Provide technical assistance to all computer optimization systems in the mill.
* Uphold quality standards as defined by governing agency and Georgia Pacific lumber standards.
* Actively prevent quality issues by managing QC processes and educating the operations team.
* Manage and supervise the Quality control team and their development opportunities.
* Conduct new product development and testing
* Routinely identify and implement cost-saving opportunities in the board manufacturing process.
* Track, prioritize, and assign responsibilities for process improvement projects that improve EH&S, quality, throughput, and product costs
* Build and maintain strong working relationships with production and maintenance teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
* Continuously improve the operation by staying current with new technologies, implementing best practices, and modelling continuous process improvement initiatives.
* Actively participate in the mill's Continuous Impr...
- Rate: Not Specified
- Location: Prosperity, US-SC
- Type: Permanent
- Industry: Management
- Recruiter: Georgia-Pacific
- Contact: Not Specified
- Email: to view click here
- Reference: 160925-en_US-US-SC-PROSPERITY1
- Posted: 2024-08-15 08:16:06 -
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