Quality Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an experienced Quality Manager to join our team in Cedar Springs, GA.

As a key member of the team, the Quality Manager works with operations to meet the facility production goals focused on ensuring the site produces Quality right first-time products, on time, meeting our customers' needs and ensuring GP is the preferred partner.

The Facility Quality Manager (FQM) provides oversight at the facility for incoming raw materials, intermediates, and finished products manufactured in operations and finished goods in packaging and warehousing.

Quality oversight includes assisting with development and commercialization trials, and ensuring acceptance criteria are met, managing, measuring, and monitoring quality metrics for daily operations per the facility Quality Control Plan and meeting or exceeding our customers' expectations.

This position assures that site operations meet regulatory and compliance requirements for Safe Quality Food (SQF), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and internal processes (procedures and policies).

Our Team

The Cedar Springs facility is one of the largest containerboard facilities in the country with three paper machines that make different weights of brown paper & containerboard paper.

The Cedar Springs Mill, located in the southwest corner of Georgia is approximately 28 miles from Dothan, Alabama.

Dothan is the 6th largest city in the state of Alabama with a population of about 70,000.

From Dothan, you are only 90 miles from the beautiful Gulf Coast.

You can easily drive to 3 capital cities in 3 1/2 hours or less.

You are just 1.5 hours from Tallahassee, FL and Montgomery, AL.

Additionally, Dothan has several parks, restaurants, and local entertainment activities.

To learn more about Georgia-Pacific's packaging business please visit: www.gppackaging.com and view the video How Paper Is Made !

What You Will Do


* Foster a culture of transformation and continuous improvement, building a quality culture and capability in the organization.


* Drive sustainable quality processes and systems through application of management systems and a cadence of verification through self and with operations leaders.


* Provide leadership and coaching to employees through a shared Quality vision for the operation.


* Apply Operational Excellence Strategy and Principled Based Management® (PBM®) Principles for managing continuous improvement of Quality Systems and Processes.


* Work with Operations and corporate capabilities to better align the Voice of the Customer (VOC) with the Voice of the Process (VOP).


* Be a Champion for Product Safety and Quality certification programs.


* Oversee and implement Production and Commercialization trials within the facility, ensure acceptance criteria is established and approved.


* Conduct quality reviews with product systems and track performance against key action plans.


* Build collaborative relationships with strategic c...