Asset Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Dixie Consumer Products Operation is seeking qualified professionals to consider for an Asset Leader role supporting the Consumer Products Group Operations located in Fort Smith Arkansas.

If you have a passion for continuous improvement and creating value to drive performance results in a manufacturing facility, then we would love to talk to you.

We are looking for an individual who has a business owner mindset to drive initiatives and create value for the organization.

Strengths in leadership, manufacturing and reliability will be key in the success of this role.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated capability to create proactive and responsive solutions to business needs and will play an intricate part in leading the converting area.

Our Team

The Fort Smith facility uses state of the art technology to manufacture Dixie plates and bowls in a progressive production environment.

Dixie is a brand of choice and is widely used in homes and businesses across the country.

This role will be critical in providing asset strategies and implementations for our reliability team.

What You Will Do



* Developing, implementing, and monitoring asset strategies for production equipment


* Prioritize work based on value creation, criticality and business needs


* Apply economic thinking in day-to-day actions to support/justify investments and updates to equipment strategies


* Identify and address improvement opportunities in the manufacturing processes and equipment, including risk reduction, quality improvement, waste reduction and productivity


* Demonstrate the ability to lead and influence cross functional teams outside of direct reports (maintenance, planning, operations)


* Facilitate Root Cause Analysis of manufacturing processes and equipment issues


* Assist in raw materials trials to evaluate performance and cost improvement opportunities


* Participate in plant streamlining and optimization as well as standardized work


* Lead reliability and continuous improvement activities


* Lead management of change activities related to equipment modification, installation, and startup.


* Support project justification and benefits analysis as needed for area of responsibility


* Collaborate with onsite resources as well as contractor teams to deliver the required work according to needs


* Specify modifications to process equipment

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Four or more years of experience working in an operations or maintenance role in a manufacturing, industrial or military environment


* Equipment and/or manufacturing systems reliability experience


* Previous training in a maintenance/reliability system


* Experience using SAP or other CMMS software


* Experience using Microsoft Office Software such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

What Will Put You Ahead



* Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering


* Experience with ...