Your Job
Georgia-Pacific has an exciting opportunity for a talented Area Leader - Utilities at our Memphis Cellulose facility. The successful candidate will have leadership responsibility for the safe and environmentally compliant operation of 3 natural gas boilers, evaporators, turbines, compressed air, and feedwater systems. This individual will work closely with manufacturing engineers, maintenance planners, craftspeople, engineering managers, operations personnel, and contractors.
Our Team
The Georgia-Pacific Memphis, TN facility is one of the most diverse cotton cellulose producers in the market. The Memphis Mill manufactures various grades of specialty pulp that is used in LED displays, coatings, plastics, currency papers, construction, pharmaceuticals, food additivities, thickeners, and filter applications.
What You Will Do
- Provide leadership for the department to strive for excellence in safety and environmental compliance.
- Build and lead a strategy to optimize the current capability of the utilities department and track performance against capability.
- Provide leadership to direct reports to facilitate the development of the knowledge and skills of operators to improve operational performance of the department and facility.
- Continuously evaluate and identify constraints to eliminate quality and production bottlenecks and lead plans to improve current capability to improve our relative competitive position.
- Work to continuously identify and eliminate waste and non-value-added costs in direct and indirect costs to improve the mill’s relative competitive position.
- Manage chemical inventories with good communications to procurement.
- Coordinate with area maintenance leadership to ensure the strategic operating plan is being executed and reliability issues are being addressed efficiently and effectively.
- Collaborate with area maintenance leadership using root cause analysis tools to resolve reliability issues and operational issues.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience in a leadership role within a manufacturing or industrial environment
- Experience with maintenance strategies, such as preventive maintenance and reliability-centered maintenance
- Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives and implementing best practices.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, paper science, or a related field.
- Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies experience
- Utilities area experience to include natural gas boilers, turbines, feedwater systems.
- Pulp and Paper industry experience
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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