Asset Availability Leader

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Georgia-Pacific is hiring an Asset Availability Leader (AAL) for our Wauna Paper Mill.

This role focuses on enhancing operational reliability and driving key improvements across high priority converting assets.

The AAL will analyze performance data, identify opportunities, and implement strategies to elevate reliability.

You will work with operations, maintenance, and reliability teams to optimize mill performance.

Guided by Principle Based Management (PBM), you will help align the team to achieve long-term reliability goals.

The ideal candidate is passionate about driving measurable improvements in metrics like Percent Overall Equipment Effectiveness (%OEE) and leading the mill toward higher operational excellence.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Wauna Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region.

With more than 850 employees, Wauna strives to lead the tissue, towel and napkin business.

Our team recently invested more than $150 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do


* Develop, implement, and lead prioritized initiatives to improve equipment reliability and operational performance


* Analyze key reliability measures, maintain the Asset Availability Database, and design and implement needed metrics to drive data-informed decisions


* Lead in RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis), ASI (Asset Strategy Improvements), and similar processes to identify and eliminate operational and equipment issues, driving recommendations to completion


* Oversee the documentation and follow-through of troubleshooting activities, procedural changes, improvement ideas, and operator training to ensure continuous improvement


* Facilitate and Lead machine outage preparation and execute the T-Minus process to ensure operational readiness and reliability

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Experience in a leadership role within a manufacturing environment


* Experience leading RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis), ASI (Asset Strategy Improvements), reliability-based maintenance and/or other processes designed to identify and eliminate operational and equipment problems


* Experience collecting, assembling, and analyzing data


* Experience using Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

What Will Put You Ahead


* Pulp & Paper experience


* Experience with PI Historian or PARCview


* Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field

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