Pulp Mill (Medium Mill) Optimizer

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Pulp Mill (Medium Mill) Optimizer to join our team in Big Island, Va.

This position will be part of the Pulp Mill (Medium Mill) consisting of an Area Leader, Gatekeeper, AAL, and two Optimizers covering two paper machines and pulp mill.

The Pulp Mill (Medium Mill) Optimizer assists with strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operation objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost.

The successful candidate will focus on improving safety, quality, productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement.

The Optimizer will be able to effectively manage many high priority tasks and projects with a sense of urgency and possess problem-solving skills with the ability to utilize a constructive challenge process to drive to the optimum solution.

Ability to build relationships and communicate with different levels of the organization are important to be successful in this role.

Our Team
Georgia-Pacific Big Island is a fully integrated containerboard mill that employs 300 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.

What You Will Do


* Driving a culture of safety, quality, and environmental excellence


* Coach and develop employees


* Respond to machine downtime and off-quality events focusing on root cause identification and minimizing losses


* Building TCC's and coaching expectations


* Assist with both outage and routine maintenance planning


* Understanding, communicating, and aligning goals in quality, production, safety, and reliability


* Driving process & equipment modifications that result in improved product quality


* Ensuring major quality non-conformance events are identified, owned, investigated and effective corrective actions are implemented to mitigate / eliminate waste


* Leading teams in the identification, evaluation, development and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that add the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement


* Providing leadership through the application of Koch's Principle Based Management philosophy to achieve superior results

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's degree and 2 years of paper mill operations experience OR 5 years of paper machine operations experience


* Willingness to continuously learn leadership, management and paper making process


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

What Will Put You Ahead


* Five (5) or more years of supervisory experience in multiple areas in the paper industry.


* Experience managing in a labor union environment.


* Organization optimization experience.

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