Product System Leader - Angel Soft Converting

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific has an exciting opportunity for a talented Product System Leader/Production Manager at our Palatka, Florida facility.

The Product Stream Leader will be responsible for the Angel Soft Converting area and will have ownership for optimizing the product stream and asset performance.

This individual will report to the Retail Manager and will supervise Manufacturing Engineers, Asset Availability Leader, and Reliability Coordinator; as well as work closely with Engineering Managers, Maintenance Leaders, and Contractors to create the greatest long-term value for GP.

Our Team

The Palatka Mill facility is part of the tissue, towel, and napkin paper products manufacturing operations.

Palatka employs about 1,000 people and is a fully-integrated mill with four tissue paper machines, two Kraft Paper Machines as well as several converting lines and produces consumer tissue products such as bath tissue and paper towels sold under the Georgia-Pacific brand names of Angel Soft®, Quilted Northern®, Brawny®, and Sparkle®.

We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

What You Will Do


* Embrace influential leadership to support the organization while advancing our Principle-Based Management (PBM) culture


* Providing strategic leadership to achieve key operation objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, and cost


* Accountability for employee and organizational development plans and people management strategies


* Ensuring organizational structure, succession plans and individual roles, responsibilities and expectations are aligned with the mill's organizational, tactical, and strategic goals to maximize value for the company


* Providing leadership and holding the team accountable for the implementation of complete asset strategies and an ownership-based work system that develops technicians to successfully operate, maintain, and improve the equipment and processes


* Leading and fostering a strong safety and environmental compliance culture that values risk identification and personal ownership, through a principle-based approach


* Responsibility for the Angel Soft operation for safety, quality and reliability of the area assets and using reliability concepts (i.e.

root cause failure analysis, operator basic care, PMs, etc.)


* Driving mill initiatives and sense of urgency to achieve plant value driver metrics


* Collaborating and knowledge sharing with other departments across mill and other levels within the organization to ensure the success of operational goals


* Partner and communicate with internal and external customers, and business leaders

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Experience in a manufacturing operation with the fundamentals of equipment operations


* Knowledge and experience with reliability systems, work processes, implementation, and continuous...