Maintenance and Engineering Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking a Maintenance and Engineering Leader to join the Port Hudson Mill located near Zachary, LA.

This key leadership role provides strategic leadership and coaching to employees through a shared vision for the operation, driving continuous improvement in process reliability, product quality, and operating cost.

The Maintenance and Engineering Leader will provide leadership and direction to the engineering and maintenance departments to ensure that the mill is meeting objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.

This individual will lead and support preventative maintenance programs, and provide technical support for troubleshooting, to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiencies.

Our Team

This role leads a maintenance and engineering team of roughly 50 salaried and hourly employees in support of a continuous manufacturing operation.

The Port Hudson Mill is the proud producer of household products such as Brawny® and Quilted Northern®.

The mill is in the sportsman's paradise of Southern Louisiana, just 20 minutes north of Baton Rouge.

What You Will Do


* Developing key business relationships and being a strategic part of the mill leadership team


* Partnering closely with Operations Manager to advance mill priorities and achieve results


* Having accountability for employee and organizational development plans and people management strategies.


* Exhibiting strong leadership skills to motivate and develop a team of salaried and hourly employees to continuously improve performance of the business


* Demonstrate functional leadership skills to engage a workforce with a diverse background of knowledge & experience


* Demonstrating strong functional knowledge of maintaining equipment used in the paper manufacturing process


* Responsibility for establishing and administering maintenance expenses and capital work and managing against plans including explanation of variances


* Ensuring the facility's electrical and mechanical systems are operating reliably, efficiently, and compliant with all safety guidelines and government regulations

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Experience supervising and developing people leaders within an industrial, manufacturing, or other production environment


* Experience with project engineering principles to ensure successful project execution


* Experience developing asset strategy plans for rotating equipment

What Will Put You Ahead



* Previous experience working within a pulp & paper operation


* Bachelor's degree or higher in an Engineering discipline

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