Power and Utilities Area Operating Superintendent

Georgia-Pacific Toledo Containerboard Mill has an exciting opportunity for a Power and Utilities Area Operating Superintendent. This leader will develop a shared vision, build capability, and encourage respectful challenge to help the team use knowledge, economic thinking, and clear decision rights to improve performance in Power & Recovery Operations.

About the Role

The Power and Utilities Area Operating Superintendent reports to the Power and Recovery Area Leader, leading a team of 6 salaried employees and over 50 indirect employees. This role is responsible for supporting the Mill’s Vision and creating long-term value through improved equipment reliability using Operations Excellence.

Long-term value is created through the application of Georgia-Pacific’s Guiding Principles and the PBM Five Dimensions: Vision, Virtue and Talents, Knowledge, Comparative Advantage, and Motivation.

Responsibilities

• Lead through the proactive and deliberate application of Principle Based Management (PBM®) to capture and realize long-term value via Operations Excellence.
• Translate the Mill and department vision into clear priorities, measures, and expectations that help the team focus on the highest-value work.
• Build a culture grounded in Our Values by modeling integrity, stewardship and compliance, humility, respect, and accountability in daily decisions.
• Create an operation that is capable, stable, predictable, and continuously improving through disciplined execution and bottom-up challenge.
• Provide leadership and direction to direct reports to ensure the Mill is meeting its objectives in EHS, quality, reliability, production, and costs.
• Lead the development and implementation of asset strategies that drive continuous improvement and support all elements of reliability.
• Use knowledge sharing, economic thinking, and good measures to identify gaps, evaluate tradeoffs, and make decisions that create real long-term value.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, expectations, and decision rights so team members can contribute according to their comparative advantages.
• Facilitate knowledge and skills development of all team members, including Asset Manager, Assistant Asset Managers, Supervisors, Planners, and Hourly (union) Technicians.
• Lead and mentor the team in planning and executing annual and routine outages, with accountability for long-term planning, risk reduction, and completion of annual work.
• Coach and develop contribution-motivated employees by helping them self-actualize, build capability, and increase their contribution to the business.
• Work as a team member with operations to cost-effectively plan, schedule, and execute work that creates real long-term value.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in pulp and paper operations or equivalent biomass/power generation experience.
• Operations experience in a heavy industrial environment.
• Proven experience delivering high levels of performance in a heavy industrial environment.
• Proven ability to collaborate within and across teams to deliver positive results.
• Experience applying leadership principles, coaching, or continuous improvement methods to build team capability and improve results.
• Experience using data, measures, and economic thinking to identify gaps, prioritize work, and make value-creating decisions.
• Experience with power generation equipment (boilers, turbines, recausticizing, etc.).

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Experience leading salary and hourly direct reports.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering.
• Experience applying PBM, supervisor responsibilities and expectations, or similar principled leadership frameworks to develop people and improve business results.
• Experience building clear roles, responsibilities, expectations, and decision rights within a manufacturing or operations team.
• Experience with the kraft chemical recovery process and associated equipment.
• Experience with asset reliability techniques to improve equipment reliability.
• Experience with repairing/troubleshooting fixed equipment, rotating equipment, pressure vessels, and steam distribution systems.
• Experience with landfill operations or wastewater treatment processes.

About the Team

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is one of four containerboard manufacturing sites within the Packaging & Cellulose division. The team consists of over 480 dedicated employees and is a recycling leader in the Northwest United States. The Toledo Mill is located within a 10-minute drive to the Pacific Ocean (Newport, OR), 1 hour west of Corvallis, OR, and offers many local outdoor activities including fishing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and boating.

Pay

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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, ADD, and disability.
• Retirement plans.
• Paid vacation/time off.
• Educational assistance.
• May include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline, and benefits may vary by geographic region.