Paper Mill Shift Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is currently seeking a Paper Mill Shift Manager for our Paper Machine Department in the Monticello, MS Paper Mill.

The successful candidate will be a self-driven individual with a passion for excellence in Safety, Environmental Stewardship, customer quality and building a high-performance team.

Additional responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, providing leadership with accountability for all hourly employees on the shift, safety, and environmental compliance; customer service, coaching, training, and development of operations personnel in safety, quality, production, problem solving, technical and interpersonal communication skills; addressing key issues and concern; and interacting with employees from other departments to ensure success of operational goals.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Monticello is a fully integrated containerboard mill that employs 450 employees and continues to benefit from extensive capital investment.

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

Monticello, Mississippi, is an hour South of Jackson, MS, and an hour Northwest of Hattiesburg, MS.

What You Will Do

• Create the environment to support our #1 priority of eliminating all Significant Incidents and Fatalities.

• Take the lead on shift to foster a culture reflective of our Principle Based Management and Manufacturing Vision.

• Lead the shift and deliver expected results and demonstrate principled entrepreneurship developing a culture of ownership.

• Strong commitment to achieving safety and environmental excellence.

• Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills.

• Work in a cooperative and collaborative manner with other depts.

• Commitment to operate efficiently, continuously improve, minimize waste and downtime, and achieve operational goals.

• Understand and troubleshoot the linerboard paper making process and paper machine operations, capable of handling on-shift maintenance needs utilizing shift resources and proactively communicating ways to eliminate repeat issues.

• Lead and manage team development, facilitate team meetings, maintain safety and housekeeping expectations and compliance to company policies.

• Ability to apply and train root cause analysis and problem solving and drive process improvement.

• Demonstrate the ability to use different software packages.

(PI Vision, ParcView, Kronos, Word, Excel, PTM, Passport, Internet applications)

• Demonstrate a sense of urgency and accountability.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• High School Degree

• Minimum 8 years of paper machine supervision

• Experience manufacturing linerboard

• Position requires working 12 hour rotating shifts, weekends and holidays

• Must have a working knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to learn various PC-Based reporting system applications.

What Will Put You Ahead

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