Utilities Superintendent

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Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking a Utilities Superintendent for our Wauna Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon.

This is an opportunity to lead a complex utilities organization encompassing both power and recovery operations while developing a talented team that is building its technical and leadership capability.

The successful candidate will combine strong operating knowledge with a hands-on leadership approach.

This leader will coach employees, strengthen technical capability, manage competing operational and project priorities, and help build the next generation of leadership within the mill.

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 900 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



* Lead the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the mill's power and recovery areas, providing leadership across both day-to-day operations and longer-term operating priorities


* Provide technical leadership for complex power, utility, and chemical recovery processes, helping the team troubleshoot operating issues, understand process interactions, and make sound operating decisions


* Coach and develop supervisors and technical team members on power and recovery fundamentals, strengthening the team's ability to diagnose problems, improve operating discipline, and sustain reliable performance


* Partner with engineering, maintenance, operations, and other mill resources to identify and resolve process reliability, equipment, and operating challenges across the utilities organization


* Lead improvements that strengthen process stability, reliability, efficiency, and operating capability within the power and recovery areas


* Manage competing priorities across day-to-day operations, technical problem solving, and the department's capital project portfolio


* Use operating information and technical expertise to identify risks, evaluate performance, prioritize issues, and drive sustainable improvements


* Establish clear operating expectations, reinforce accountability, and remain directly engaged in complex problems when the developing team needs additional technical or leadership support


* Build technical capability and leadership depth across an organization of approximately 40-45 employees, including approximately 8-10 direct reports


* Support a continuous manufacturing operation, including responding to significant operational needs outside normal working hours when required

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Leadership experience in utilities, recovery, power generation, chemical/process operations, refining, pulp and paper, or comparable...