Operations Material Flow Lead

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is looking for someone to join our Consumer Products Group as an Operations Material Flow Lead .

The Operations Material Flow Lead will utilize leadership, influence, manufacturing experience, and communication capabilities to develop and implement strategies to lead our organization through implementing material flow/automation standards and projects.

This position will be home-based and will require up to 30-50% travel.

This role will have high visibility with key site and corporate leadership and will work as part of a team to deliver significant bets to the business.

Our Team

This role will support GP's opportunities across the country for our Consumer Product manufacturing sites.

The role is accountable for supporting the site's logistics, planning and/or automation leaders.

The responsibilities include improving safety, productivity and cost, reducing waste, building skill capability through a disciplined approach while influencing and driving change.

What You Will Do


* Help lead the Material Flow Disciplined Operations roll out to our facilities by leveraging and teaching the tools like KPIs, Standard Work, and others


* Support Automation Projects at our CPG sites through the design, testing, training, and implementation phases of these projects.


* Partner with the mills and business group to evaluate proposed projects to understand material flow implications and assist in evaluation of total cost/benefit analysis.


* Assist our manufacturing sites optimize their material flow processes by documenting best practices, identifying opportunities, and leading small projects to implement changes.


* Assist the sites in building skill and capability on their teams and fostering communication between SMEs across sites.


* Assist in governing the standards or work processes, systems, and reporting.

Suggest improvements or call out gaps as they are identified.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* 3+ years of experience working within a manufacturing or industrial setting; direct experience must include operational/logistics responsibilities or direct consultation


* Experience with driving manufacturing change and Operational Discipline improvements in a manufacturing organization against targeted initiatives


* Ability to travel domestically 30-50%


* Experience using Microsoft Office Tools such as Word (creating documents), Excel (creating spreadsheets, utilizing formulas, & analyzing data), and Outlook (scheduling meeting invites & emailing)

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's degree or higher in logistics, supply chain, engineering or work experience in a similar field


* 10 or more years of operational experience within a manufacturing/industrial setting or direct consultation


* Experience working within pulp, paper, and tissue groups


* SAP S4 and SAP EWM Experience


* iCPAQS Experience


* Project Management Experience

For this role, we ...