Tissue Product System Leader- Department Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified professionals to consider for a Tissue Product System Leader role supporting the Savannah River Mill located in Rincon, GA.

This position will report directly to the Operations Manager and will be responsible for managing a department of 80 to 100 employees (salaried and hourly) including many of whom work a twelve-hour shift rotation.

This position is primarily responsible for safety, quality, productivity, and spending/waste reductions in these areas.

A successful candidate will have exceptional communication, organizational, interpersonal and leadership skills, and the ability to drive change.

The Savannah River Mill facility uses integrated technology to manufacture tissue, towel, and napkin paper products in a progressive production environment.

Our Team

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

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

We create a work environment that attracts, engages, and retains the best people.

Our employees help others, and the business reach their full potential, promoting our Principle-Based Management culture to the work they do every day.

Our technology is state of the art, and we will bring the best team together to deliver for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Rincon community.

What You Will Do

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

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

• Accountable for employee and organizational development plans and people management strategies

• Ensure 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

• Provide 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

• Lead and foster a strong safety and environmental compliance culture that values risk identification and personal ownership, through a principle-based approach

• Responsible for the converting 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.)

• Drive mill initiatives and sense of urgency to achieve plant value driver metrics and targets

• Collaborate and knowledge share 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 lead...