Fiber Technician 1 (Broadway)

The Job

Your Georgia-Pacific facilities in Green Bay, WI are seeking a Fiber Technician 1 at our Broadway location. Successful candidates should be detail-oriented and enjoy a team-oriented work environment. Fiber Technicians work a rotating 12-hour shift that includes days, nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime.

About the Role

Operate equipment to defined standards and product specification targets. Monitor and/or enter into computer control systems. Troubleshoot equipment to optimize production. Inspect product to ensure quality standards are met including grading of wastepaper. Perform basic asset care duties to include routine preventative maintenance and cleaning of the work area. Work as a team to help meet or exceed production, waste, quality, and safety goals. Operate and/or work around mobile equipment. Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, which includes wearing required safety PPE. Perform tasks such as lifting, climbing, standing, pushing, and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day, in a loud/noisy, industrial, high-volume environment.

Responsibilities

• Operate equipment to defined standards and product specification targets
• Monitor and/or enter into computer control systems
• Troubleshoot equipment to optimize production
• Inspect product to ensure quality standards are met including grading of wastepaper
• Perform basic asset care duties to include routine preventative maintenance and cleaning of the work area
• Work as a team to help meet or exceed production, waste, quality, and safety goals
• Operate and/or work around mobile equipment
• Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, which includes wearing required safety PPE
• Perform tasks such as lifting, climbing, standing, pushing, and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day, in a loud/noisy, industrial, high-volume environment

Requirements

• Experience using a computer OR tablet OR smartphone
• Ability to speak, read and write English

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, agricultural, or military environment
• Completion of post-high school education in a manufacturing/industrial-centered program
• Experience troubleshooting and repairing manufacturing equipment
• Experience working in a paper/pulp manufacturing environment
• Experience working a rotating shift
• Forklift experience including loading and unloading trailers

Skills

• Computer skills

Benefits

• Full benefits package that begins the first of the month following the start date
• Two (2) weeks of vacation prorated for the first year
• Eleven (11) Paid Holidays each calendar year
• Forty-eight (48) Hours of PTO (one-year waiting period until PTO is earned and will be pro-rated during the first year of eligibility)
• Annual bonus potential
• Opportunities to advance based on capability, not seniority
• Work in a progressive, safety-conscious work environment
• Overtime opportunities

Pay

The starting rate of pay is $23-27/HR and will be determined based on experience. A $3.00/hour shift premium will be paid for all night-shift hours worked (6:00 PM – 6:00 AM).

Schedule

Average weekly hours: 40

Company Information

We manufacture and distribute leading commercial and retail brands of paper products (bath tissue, napkins, and towels). Every day, GP employees and products help maintain a strong, stable economy in Northeastern Wisconsin. We do more than just make paper. Check out this video to see for yourself: Come Inside a GP Paper Mill | Georgia-Pacific

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

We are a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products, and much more. 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.

Our Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability
• Retirement
• Paid vacation/time off
• Educational assistance
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance

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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).