Director of Operations - Corrugated

Flint Hills Resources; Modesto (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific's Corrugated division in Modesto, CA is hiring a Director of Operations to oversee a 140-person workforce and an 18-person leadership team, ensuring a safe, high-performance manufacturing environment.

You will drive PBM-based improvements, partner with HR and other functions, and execute strategic initiatives to meet the business plan. A bachelor's degree and 5+ years of manufacturing leadership are required; salary range is $170k–$190k with variable pay.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading manufacturing processes and operations excellence.
• Experience driving talent development initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Apply PBM to drive long-term value and align with business objectives.
• Collaborate with HR, Customer Service, Accounting, and Purchasing.
• Work with the plant Commercial Team to meet customer expectations and business plan.
• Operate in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and drive actions to closure.
• Develop advantaged capabilities to support short- and long-term priorities.
• Define operational vision and establish direction and focus.
• Develop direct reports into promotable roles and drive accountability.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Talent development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Business/Management

Job description

Georgia-Pacific's Corrugated business has an exciting leadership opportunity in Modesto, CA! We are now hiring a Director of Operations to take on overall operations of this facility with a workforce of around 140 full-time employees including a 18-person leadership team. The Director of Operations will lead the team to ensure a safe and injury/incident-free environment in a fast-paced manufacturing facility. If you are a driven leader, we’d like to learn more about you!

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific is one of the nation’s leading corrugated box manufacturers. We manufacture standard corrugated containers providing cost-effective corrugated solutions for virtually any product. To learn more about this facility and our Packaging division, please visit: www.gppackaging.com

What You Will Do

• Applying Principled Based Management (PBM®) to drive long term value creation and support business objectives.
• Partnering and collaborating with capability resources such as HR, Customer Service, Accounting, and Purchasing.
• Work closely with the plant Commercial Team to meet all Customer Expectations and achieve the business plan.
• Operating in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with an ability to prioritize and drive actions to closure.
• Driving new and fast-growing technologies to upgrade our manufacturing process.
• Developing advantaged manufacturing capabilities that enable short- and long-term business priorities and objectives.
• Defining operational vision and strategy and establishing organizational direction and focus.
• Driving results by fostering creativity and accountability in a performance-oriented culture.
• Developing direct reports into promotable roles.
• Executing multiple, simultaneous high impact initiatives to achieve overall goals.
• Exercising agility with solving problems with the ability to quickly identify profitable opportunities, diagnose errors, prioritize actions, and optimize systems and processes.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Five (5) or more years of experience leading manufacturing processes, including work processes, operations excellence, maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Experience driving talent development initiatives.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering, Business Administration, Management, or related field.
• Sales experience within the consumer goods industry.
• Experience within the Corrugated industry.

For this role, we anticipate paying $170,000 - $190,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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.

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

• 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.

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.