MES Product Owner

Your Job

As a Product Owner for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), you will be accountable for maximizing the value delivered through MES applications by defining product vision, prioritizing features, managing product roadmaps, and ensuring outcomes align with business objectives.

You will work closely with manufacturing, operations, quality, maintenance, engineering, and technology stakeholders to identify opportunities, prioritize work, and deliver scalable manufacturing execution solutions that improve production visibility, quality, efficiency, and operational performance across Georgia-Pacific facilities.

This role requires someone who understands both manufacturing execution and digital product delivery.

You will connect strategic business objectives to product execution while driving adoption, value realization, operational reliability, and continuous improvement across Georgia-Pacific facilities.

As the Product Owner, you are accountable not only for delivering features, but also for ensuring MES products achieve desired business outcomes.

This includes product adoption, operational reliability, user satisfaction, process improvement, and long-term product sustainability.

You will make prioritization decisions based on expected business value and continuously evaluate product performance to maximize return on investment.

Location: Green Bay, WI (onsite three days per week)

Our Team

The Manufacturing Execution team delivers digital solutions that enable safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing operations across Georgia-Pacific facilities.

Our focus is on building and scaling manufacturing execution technologies that help operators, technicians, and leaders execute standard work consistently, improve decision-making, and drive operational excellence.

We work closely with operations leaders, manufacturing capability teams, and technology partners to ensure solutions integrate with core manufacturing systems and align with Georgia-Pacific's broader digital manufacturing and smart factory strategy.

Our goal is to create long-term business value across our manufacturing network.

What You Will Do


* Define and execute the product vision, lifecycle, strategy, roadmap, and backlog aligned to manufacturing, business and digital marketing strategies and priorities


* Lead a cross-functional team of Business Analysts, and developers to deliver high-value digital solutions


* Partner with Operations, Capability Leaders, Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, Digital Manufacturing, IT, and vendors to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and drive measurable business outcomes


* Own backlog prioritization, balancing business value, user feedback, support needs, and technical improvements


* Drive product delivery, manage dependencies, and remove barriers to execution across multiple teams


* Lead product discovery activities and engage frontline users to identify opportunities that improve manufacturin...