Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Paper Machine Assistant Optimizer to join our team in Monticello, MS. This position will support the Paper Machine Optimizer assisting with strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operation objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost. The asset is a 1100 ton per day liner board machine, the 2nd largest of its kind in the organization.
The successful candidate will focus on improving safety, quality, productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement. The Assistant Optimizer will be able to effectively manage many high priority tasks and projects with a sense of urgency and possess problem-solving skills with the ability to utilize a constructive challenge process to drive to the optimum solution. Ability to build relationships and communicate with different levels of the organization are important to be successful in this role.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific Monticello is a fully integrated containerboard mill that employs 450 employees and continues to benefit from extensive capital investment. This position is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding organization with tremendous growth potential. Monticello, Mississippi, is an hour South of Jackson, MS, and an hour Northwest of Hattiesburg, MS.
What You Will Do
- Driving a culture of safety, quality, and environmental excellence
- Coach and develop employees
- Respond to machine downtime and off-quality events focusing on root cause identification and minimizing losses
- Building TCC's and coaching expectations
- Assist with both outage and routine maintenance planning
- Understanding, communicating, and aligning goals in quality, production, safety, and reliability
- Driving process & equipment modifications that result in improved product quality
- Ensuring major quality non-conformance events are identified, owned, investigated and effective corrective actions are implemented to mitigate / eliminate waste
- Leading teams in the identification, evaluation, development and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that add the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement
- Providing leadership through the application of Koch's Principle Based Management philosophy to achieve superior results
- Fill Paper Machine Optimizer role as needed
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree and 2 years of paper industry experience OR 5 years of paper industry experience
- Willingness to continuously learn leadership, management and paper making process
- Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
What Will Put You Ahead
- Paper machine operations 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
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