Performance Coach

Your Job

Georgia Pacific in Rincon, GA is seeking their next Performance Coach.

Our Team

Our Performance Coaches foster knowledge-sharing across a diverse team, creating an environment that promotes continuous learning and ownership.

They facilitate skill development and ensure timely advancement of Operating Technicians through knowledge assessments and development plans.

On shift, they set clear expectations, provide coaching and feedback, and hold employees accountable to standard operating procedures and production targets.

While doing so, they also maintain a strong focus on safety, quality, reliability, production, and cost management.

Performance Coaches apply critical thinking to prioritize operational decisions in line with the company's risk philosophies and work with subject matter experts to address and implement corrective actions when needed.

In this role, applicants will work a 12-hour rotating schedule that will require both days and nights.

Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

What You Will Do


* Foster high levels of teamwork and participation on a diverse team.


* Create an environment that promotes transferring knowledge, ownership, and continuous learning across team members.


* Facilitate the knowledge assessment, skill block qualification, and development plan process for Operating Technicians to ensure timely skills advancement for the on-shift team.


* Set expectations, provide on-shift coaching/feedback and hold employees accountable to standard operating practices and daily operating targets.


* Drive a safety-focused culture, regularly engaging in and encouraging safety participation amongst the team.



* Coordinate and oversee the mill while on shift with a primary focus on safety, quality, reliability, production, and cost management, by planning and managing the day-to-day allocation of resources (people, equipment, materials, and systems).


* Apply critical thinking skills to prioritize and make operational decisions consistent with the company's risk philosophies and value propositions with a high sense of urgency.



* Review daily achievement of targets and report variances during on-floor and off-floor review meetings.


* Partner with subject matter experts to communicate and analyze operating problems, while determining sustainable corrective actions.


* Identify, mitigate, and broadly share critical hazards throughout the department.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Two (2) or more years of experience as a supervisor with responsibility for direct reports OR leadership within a project with responsibility for assigning/delegating tasks within a manufacturing or military environment.


* Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.


* Experience troubleshooting equipment issues and facilitating Root Cause Analysis, Cause Mapping, and/or Failure Mode Cause Analysis.

What Will Put You Ahead


* Experience leadin...