Pulp Mill Manufacturing Leader

Georgia Pacific is seeking qualified candidates to consider for a Pulp Mill Manufacturing Leader to join our team in Brewton, Alabama. This position will provide strategic and technical expertise to achieve key operation objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost. The successful candidate will focus on safely improving productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and supervising and developing a team of 5-8 salary direct reports. This position will report to the Pulp Mill Area Leader.

The Brewton Mill produces white top linerboard and solid bleached sulfate (SBS) paperboard. The SBS material is used to make GP's Dixie plates. White top linerboard is used in production of corrugated containers and displays. To learn more about our Bleach Board Division, visit www.gppackaging.com Learn more about our Brewton facility and employees here: We Are: Brewton

• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation.
• Supervise and develop a team of salary direct reports utilizing Principle Based Management.
• Provide operational, process engineering and technical support for the pulping, bleaching and recausticizing processes and facilitate troubleshooting and problem solving to achieve goals.
• Lead teams in the identification, development, evaluation and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects to drive continuous improvement and add the highest value.
• Use strong problem-solving skills and the constructive challenge process to drive to best possible solutions.
• Effectively manage many high priority tasks / projects with a sense of urgency.
• Work with cross-functional teams to plan and execute routine and major outages.
• Utilize strong communication (written and verbal), organizational, and planning/scheduling/execution skills to facilitate transformational improvements in all areas of the department.
• Employ strong interpersonal skills to influence change in the department and the process.

* Bachelor of Science degree

* Minimum of three (3) years of pulp/paper industry experience.

* Experience developing and implementing process improvements and projects.

* Experience using Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Outlook.

* Knowledge of pulp mill processes along with the fundamentals of equipment operation for effective interface with maintenance.

* Bachelor of Science in Pulp & Paper or Chemical Engineering

* Understanding of pulping operations including recausticizing, digesting, brown stock washing, bleaching, and ClO2 production

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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