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The Innovation Leader deploys technology, automation, and transformation solutions to optimize profitable quality performance, meeting desired customer experience for our commercial brand and operating partners across the Georgia-Pacific Dixie value stream. This leader will leverage their technical skills, process and product knowledge, automation to drive transformation of profitable variability reduction & improvements. Collaboration & partnership of peers, vested stakeholders, subject matter experts like COE, CSC, etc. operating resources, etc. is key to building optimized capabilities through the manufacturing sites & platform solutions to maximize value creation to include board inputs, quality innovation, automation, technology, product and process quality, data collection & input monitoring solutions that enable continuous improvement and waste reduction.
This is a remote role with travel to support Dixie manufacturing facilities.
Our Team
The Quality Team is responsible for leading and influencing quality at our GP sites to meet production expectations, drive quality improvements, support perpetual transformation, profitable variation reduction, and develop quality talent using project management and statistical tools. The group's combined talents complement each other to optimize and ensure operational, brand & commercialization support that enables virtuous cycles of mutual benefit with partners, manufacturing and commercial.
What You Will Do
- Develop and driving implementation of strategies to transform quality results
- Lead innovation of value stream that creates board (SBS) optimization across all supply chain sources, perpetually transforms technology/innovation, drive profitable reduction in variability of process and products and supports effective quality management system through sites
- Enable the performance of products to be integrated into operational discipline, resulting in reduced losses, driving the use of process tools that identify losses, uncover root cause and lead operations to effective corrective action which prevents reoccurrence
- Support quality in such a way that products are delivered to our customers at the right quality, right time and in the right condition to provide excellent customer experience
- Lead transformation with measures and metrics in place that are indicators of progress at various levels of the process, not only at finished product level, but at paper level and at shipping level and leverage technical resources to optimize and drive continuous improvement
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience working with Statistical Process Controls, data analytics and variability reduction
- Experience executing quality processes, innovation and machine/technology solutions including change management, CAPA/RCA, and that drives profitable variability reduction.
- Experience in technology and automation such as sensors, vision & lasers, PLC programming, PI Tags, etc.
- Able to travel up to 40-60% per needs of the business.
- Experience managing a cross functional team and influencing key stakeholders across an organization through facilitation and timely delivery of project results and value creation
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Chemistry, Engineering, Physics, Biology or a Science field
- Experience working in a quality management system for paper products.
- Leadership and direct management experience of people, teams, prioritizing work assignments, developing of talents & skills
- Advanced data analytics skills, monitoring, control loops, PLC programming, machine learning.
- Six-Sigma certification (Black Belt)
- Experience in board (SBS, CNK, CRB, etc.) manufacturing and quality management systems
For this role, we anticipate paying $110k - $160k per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf
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