Director of Operations

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Corrugated business has an exciting leadership opportunity in Santa Teresa, NM! We are now hiring a Director of Operations to take on overall operations of this facility with a workforce of around 70 full-time employees including a 16-person leadership team.

The Director of Operations will lead the team to ensure a safe and injury/incident-free environment in a fast-paced manufacturing facility.

If you are a driven leader, we'd like to learn more about you!

The young community of Santa Teresa offers year-round sunshine, enhancing a suburban lifestyle that is located just minutes away from the urban amenities of Las Cruces and El Paso, Texas.

The gateway between New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico, Santa Teresa features a unique location that puts you in the center of spectacular landscapes-from the beautiful desert scenery to the Franklin Mountains.

Our Team

The team at Santa Teresa specializes in the manufacturing of corrugated sheets.

These products are offered in a wide variety of flute sizes and combinations to better meet the needs of our customers.

Come join our team! To learn more about this facility and our Packaging division, please visit: www.gppackaging.com

What You Will Do


* Applying Principled Based Management (PBM®) to drive long term value creation and support business objectives


* Partnering and collaborating with capability resources such as HR, Customer Service, Accounting, and Purchasing


* Work closely with the plant Commercial Team to meet all Customer Expectations and achieve the business plan


* Operating in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with an ability to prioritize and drive actions to closure


* Driving new and fast-growing technologies to upgrade our manufacturing process


* Developing advantaged manufacturing capabilities that enable short- and long-term business priorities and objectives


* Defining operational vision and strategy and establishing organizational direction and focus


* Driving results by fostering creativity and accountability in a performance-oriented culture


* Developing direct reports into promotable roles


* Executing multiple, simultaneous high impact initiatives to achieve overall goals


* Exercising agility with solving problems with the ability to quickly identify profitable opportunities, diagnose errors, prioritize actions, and optimize systems and processes

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Eight (8) or more years of experience leading manufacturing processes, including work processes, operations excellence, maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement


* Experience driving talent development initiatives


* Experience within the Corrugated industry

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Business Administration, Management, or related field


* Sales experience within the consumer goods industry


* Bi-lingual

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