Operations Manager

The Job

Your Job Georgia-Pacific is seeking to grow our Halsey team by adding an Operations Manager!

Vision

The vision for the position is centered around making a strategic investment in the hiring and development of an exceptional leader. The focus is on a leader who will have the capabilities to lead their own site in the future, along with the mobility to relocate when the right opportunity presents itself. The role, responsibilities, and expectations at each site will offer unique challenges for the right leader to tackle. Ideally, this will be the first position of many exciting opportunities for you to grow within Georgia-Pacific.

About the Role

The Halsey Mill is located in Willamette Valley and is centrally located near the beach and mountains with several forms of outdoor recreational activities. The Halsey Mill is roughly 30 minutes from the college towns of Corvallis (Oregon State) and Eugene (University of Oregon), and 90 miles south of Portland, OR giving abundant options for regional attractions and forms of entertainment. This is a role with potential for advancement both within the plant and across the company.

What You Will Do

• Create and maintain effective relationships with Operations & Maintenance to ensure alignment with the vision and goals.
• Build and maintain a work culture that drives ownership and continuous improvement at all operational and maintenance levels.
• Direct the supervision of all plant operational & maintenance functions in converting.
• Develop the technical competency and leadership capabilities of your team.
• Develop and implement predictive and preventive maintenance strategies to ensure equipment reliability and minimize unscheduled downtime.
• Apply knowledge of innovative technology available, industry trends, and developments to improve the operation.
• Actively promote and enforce safe work practices while maintaining a strong commitment to working safely.
• Perform duties within a manufacturing plant environment, which may involve extended periods in conditions such as noise, dust, and non-climate-controlled areas.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading and developing people leaders with responsibility for a large, diverse operations or maintenance functions within a high-speed, and heavy industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience driving process transformation and delivering measurable results in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience developing asset strategies and applying reliability concepts to improve operational efficiency.
• Willing and able to relocate in 12-36 months.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience leading product streams to include paper, tissue or towel converting, OCC/secondary fiber.
• Experience leading a multi-disciplined team across an integrated production facility.

Our Team

The Halsey Mill is located in Willamette Valley and is centrally located near the beach and mountains with several forms of outdoor recreational activities. The Halsey Mill is roughly 30 minutes from the college towns of Corvallis (Oregon State) and Eugene (University of Oregon), and 90 miles south of Portland, OR giving abundant options for regional attractions and forms of entertainment.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers.

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.

Our Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement.
• Paid vacation/time off, educational assistance.
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Hiring Philosophy

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.