Utilities Business Unit Leader

About the role

Your Job Georgia-Pacific's Naheola Mill in Pennington, Alabama is seeking a Utilities Business Unit Leader to lead a critical operation supporting our Pulp, Power, and Recovery assets. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for a team of 60+ employees, including 9 direct reports, and offers the opportunity to accelerate reliability, operational excellence, and team capability across one of Georgia-Pacific's largest integrated manufacturing facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and advance all eight elements of Operations Excellence (Compliance, Health & Safety, Reliability, Production, Yield, Cost, Quality, and Capital Projects) within the Utilities organization.
• Lead organizational change as the department continues advancing its implementation of Georgia-Pacific's Asset Maintenance Work Process (AMWP), utilizing a strong understanding of equipment criticality, planning and scheduling best practices, and economic decision making.
• Develop and execute strategies that close performance gaps and improve results across safety, reliability, production, cost, and people capabilities.
• Apply Georgia Pacific’s Disciplined Operations framework to connect all levels of the team to how they deliver results & to ensure we consistently do the right thing, for the right reasons and in the right way.

Requirements

• Experience leading a dynamic team in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience advancing team capabilities through both strategic leadership and tactical execution.
• Experience supporting operations within utilities, power generation, recovery, pulp, paper, chemical processing, or other heavy industrial manufacturing environments.
• Experience managing a financial plan including both operational and maintenance expenditures.

Qualifications

• Experience developing operations teams utilizing Disciplined Operations principles.
• Experience implementing asset reliability or maintenance work process improvements.
• Experience leading and developing union-represented employees within a manufacturing or heavy industrial environment.

Skills

• Strong leadership and strategic thinking skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

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

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The schedule is typically Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.