Quality Specialist

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an experienced Quality Specialist to join our Brewton Mill.

As a key member of the Technical Team, the Quality Specialist works with the operations team to meet the facility production goals, focused on ensuring the mill produces right the first-time products, that are on time and meets customers' needs allowing GP to attain and keep preferred partner status.

This role will report to the Quality Manager.

The Quality Specialist provides oversight for the two paper machines and rewinders.

This includes monitoring pertinent parameters for incoming raw materials, intermediates, and finished products manufactured in operations.

The role also assists with product development and trials, customer site visits, and support for the Containerboard Sales Team.

The position is responsible for managing, measuring, and monitoring quality metrics for daily operations, and meeting or exceeding our customers' expectations.

The Quality Specialist is responsible for responding to customer complaints and assuring site operations meet regulatory and compliance requirements for Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and internal processes (procedures and policies).

Our Team

The Brewton mill is located is in south central Alabama about an hour from Mobile, AL, Pensacola, FL, and the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast.

The team is made up of 450 employees who produce white top linerboard and solid bleached sulfate (SBS) paperboard.

The SBS material is used to make GP's Dixie plates.

White top linerboard is used in the production of corrugated containers and displays.

This position is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding organization with tremendous growth potential.

The most recent $160M capital investment was recently completed.

The Brewton mill was also the first fully integrated pulp and paper mill in the US to receive an Energy Star designation from the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency.

Our culture is defined by the Principle Based Management™ philosophy which guides everyday decision making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create.

To learn more about Georgia-Pacific's packaging business please visit: www.gppackaging.com and view the video How Paper Is Made!

What You Will Do

• Foster a culture of transformation and continuous improvement, building a quality culture and capability in team members.

• Drive sustainable quality processes and systems through application of management systems and a cadence of verification through self and with operations leaders.

• Champion applicable quality programs.

• Develop, manage, and report Quality Alerts in Panther.

• Oversee and implement trials within the facility, ensure acceptance criteria is established and approved.

• Lead change management, quality process improvements, and drive to a zero-defect culture with use of technology and analytical tools

• Lead and facilitate the root ca...