Regional Project Manager, Southeast

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Project & Engineering Group is seeking a Project Manager to join our Southeastern Regional Projects team.

This role provides project leadership to 5-10 projects at a time that are in various phases of the project work process and various/multiple locations in the appropriate Region.

This will be a remote role with 50% travel supporting manufacturing facilities in the Southeast region.

Our Team

The GP Projects & Engineering team works across the United States working with our facilities on capital project development and execution.

We are engineers, project managers and designers focused on a quality delivery.

We partner with our mills as one team, one vision, one result.

What You Will Do


* Interface with Project Management Organization (PMO), Businesses and Plant Leadership to develop and deliver small to medium projects (up to $15M) to reduce cost, increase capacity, improve safety, and sustain operations.


* Promote team culture that is focused on meeting commitments while maintaining a safety excellence.


* Empower project team members to understand and accept their accountabilities by ensuring project delivery expectations are clearly defined to meet the project objectives.


* Provide leadership to remove project obstacles by working with, and through, others.


* Facilitate interface between design-build partners and internal GP partners (mill/business)


* Plan, execute, and close out projects throughout project lifecycle.

Including ownership of scope, cost, schedule, and risk.


* Provide oversight to GP procured equipment and services.


* Primary oversight of project change management


* Manage stakeholder engagement, ensure coordination with facilities for integrating project startup (Day 1 Readiness).


* Drive a continuous improvement mindset using lean construction principles.


* Mange and develop key external partner relationships.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* 3 or more years of experience working within a manufacturing environment.


* Experience with project and construction management systems and concepts.


* Willing and able to travel regionally at least 50% of the time (Project Dependent Fluctuates).


* Proficiency with Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc).

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent.


* Experience with LEAN project delivery methodologies.


* Industry experience within pulp, paper and building products


* 5 or more years of experience in project and/or construction management for industrial or manufacturing construction projects


* 3 or more years of experience in design-build, Integrated Project Delivery, or similar, project execution.

For this role, we anticipate paying $115k - $150k per year.

This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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