Manufacturing Advancement Leader

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Georgia-Pacific has an immediate opening for a Manufacturing Advancement Leader to coordinate collaborative, cross-functional teams in the execution of strategies for bet capture initiatives across all Dixie production operations, ensuring alignment with disciplined operations, digital transformation, and best practice adoption.

About the Role

Supports Dixie operations, requires residence in the Midwest or Southeastern United States (preferably in GA, AR, KY, TN, SC), and requires regular travel (50-75%) to production facilities and occasional team meetings.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an augmented capability to effectively coach and drive mill teams towards achieving gap closure strategies for key process areas, to include Daily Management Systems and Reliability Best Practices.
• Apply our management philosophy, Principled Based Management, to foster a culture where employees are empowered with a high sense of ownership and development.
• Coach and develop other people leaders within the Dixie organization.
• Embrace and manage change to drive innovation and process improvements.
• Utilize performance data and analytical skills to identify and realize greatest opportunities.
• Facilitate team and employee development, problem-solving and resolution, building employee commitment and ownership, and holding mutual accountability for results.
• Use critical & economic thinking, challenge process, and team collaboration to resolve issues and drive innovation, efficiency, and safety excellence.

Requirements

• Experience as a people leader in manufacturing operations and/or maintenance and reliability.
• Transformation experience utilizing analytics, management systems, change management methods, and advanced technology to improve operations.
• Experience utilizing constraint analysis and continuous improvement to prioritize work and solve complex issues.
• Able and willing to travel 75% of the time to production facilities and occasional team meetings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering.
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Experience leading within a converting manufacturing operation.

Skills

Experience as a people leader in manufacturing operations and/or maintenance and reliability.

Transformation experience utilizing analytics, management systems, change management methods, and advanced technology to improve operations.

Experience utilizing constraint analysis and continuous improvement to prioritize work and solve complex issues.

Able and willing to travel 75% of the time to production facilities and occasional team meetings.

Benefits

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.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in the job posting.