Maintenance and Engineering Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking a Maintenance and Engineering Leader to join the Port Hudson Mill located near Zachary, LA. This key leadership role provides strategic leadership and coaching to employees through a shared vision for the operation, driving continuous improvement in process reliability, product quality, and operating cost.

The Maintenance and Engineering Leader will provide leadership and direction to the engineering and maintenance departments to ensure that the mill is meeting objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service. This individual will lead and support preventative maintenance programs, and provide technical support for troubleshooting, to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiencies.

Our Team

This role leads a maintenance and engineering team of roughly 50 salaried and hourly employees in support of a continuous manufacturing operation. The Port Hudson Mill is the proud producer of household products such as Brawny® and Quilted Northern®. The mill is in the sportsman's paradise of Southern Louisiana, just 20 minutes north of Baton Rouge.

What You Will Do

• Developing key business relationships and being a strategic part of the mill leadership team
• Partnering closely with Operations Manager to advance mill priorities and achieve results
• Having accountability for employee and organizational development plans and people management strategies.
• Exhibiting strong leadership skills to motivate and develop a team of salaried and hourly employees to continuously improve performance of the business
• Demonstrate functional leadership skills to engage a workforce with a diverse background of knowledge & experience
• Demonstrating strong functional knowledge of maintaining equipment used in the paper manufacturing process
• Responsibility for establishing and administering maintenance expenses and capital work and managing against plans including explanation of variances
• Ensuring the facility's electrical and mechanical systems are operating reliably, efficiently, and compliant with all safety guidelines and government regulations

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience supervising and developing people leaders within an industrial, manufacturing, or other production environment
• Experience with project engineering principles to ensure successful project execution
• Experience developing asset strategy plans for rotating equipment

What Will Put You Ahead

• Previous experience working within a pulp & paper operation
• Bachelor's degree or higher in an Engineering discipline

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Hiring Philosophy

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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.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. 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. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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.