Engineering & Technology Leader

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Georgia-Pacific’s Consumer Operations is seeking a talented and driven Engineering & Technology Leader to join our team at the Dixie Products Operations Plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

In this role, you’ll partner closely with reliability, maintenance, and operations teams to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and optimize both processes and equipment, with a key focus on capital projects and automation. You’ll lead efforts to drive innovation, streamline processes, and implement advanced technologies that support the company’s strategic goals. Additionally, you’ll lead initiatives to improve the knowledge and skills of operators, fostering a culture of safety and efficiency across the Fort Smith facility. Your expertise will be pivotal in elevating our team’s performance, advancing operational excellence, and successfully executing capital projects and automation initiatives.

Our Team

At our Fort Smith Plant, part of the Dixie brand, we take pride in safely manufacturing high-quality paper products that lead the market in performance and growth. As a key player in our operation, you'll contribute to creating products that have a competitive edge in the marketplace. The ideal candidate will also be a people leader, managing a small team to drive success and collaboration across the facility.

We are committed to fostering a dynamic work environment where top talent thrives. Our team is dedicated to helping one another, achieving business goals, and embracing our Principle-Based Management culture, which drives everything we do. With state-of-the-art technology and a focus on continuous improvement, we bring the best people together to deliver exceptional results for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Fort Smith community.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow your career with a forward-thinking company that values your contributions, we want to hear from you!

What You Will Do

• Embrace influential leadership to support the organization while advancing our Principle-Based Management (PBM) culture
• Providing leadership to drive successful planning execution and commissioning of capital projects for both production and facility related projects - Initiate and develop venture summaries (capital project requests) to address reliability issues //
• Providing leadership in the achievement of improved performance in the areas of safety, environmental compliance, customer satisfaction, organizational effectiveness, cost management and asset utilization in the packaging and converting operations area
• Work closely with operators and customers to troubleshoot process, quality and equipment issues and evaluate and implement improvement ideas
• Lead Root Cause Analysis process and execute effective corrective actions
• Create a safe workplace with all environmental, safety and business practices with emphasis on identifying and mitigating critical risks
• Lead and participate in continuous improvement efforts.
• Regularly help communicate, articulate, and direct departmental priorities to achieve mill and company visions.
• Collaborate with the work system team to review and analyze loss analysis and asset tracking data to identify equipment reliability and performance issues (gap analysis) and develop improvement plans
• Facilitate, coach, and teach operational optimization concepts, work processes, methods, & tools
• Mentor and support area leaders with daily manufacturing work process execution and improvement efforts
• Effectively apply the challenge process; coach initiative owners to urgently escalate issues that are prohibiting the delivery of initiative results
• Lead the implementation of continuous monitoring technologies within the Department (Plant)
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working within a manufacturing, industrial or military environment
• Experience in data analytics and data-driven action planning
• Experience with improving existing work processes and leading change in manufacturing areas
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering
• At least three (3) years of experience working in a paper or converting mill
• Experience initiating and/or executing capital projects
• Experience leading Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Experience leading a team within a manufacturing, industrial or military environment
• Experience with PI or other data historian programs
  
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

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.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.