Director of Operations - Corrugated

Georgia-Pacific LLC; San Leandro (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC in San Leandro, CA, seeks a Director of Operations to lead a ~140-person operation and 18-person leadership team. The role drives safety, value creation, and performance in a fast-paced plant environment, partnering with HR, finance, and purchasing to meet customer expectations and the business plan.

The position emphasizes PBM, operational vision, and developing leaders, with a compensation range of $190,000–$210,000 and eligible variable pay.

Qualifications

• Five or more years leading manufacturing processes including operations excellence, maintenance, reliability and continuous improvement.
• Experience driving talent development initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Apply Principled Based Management (PBM) to drive long term value creation and support business objectives.
• Partner with HR, Customer Service, Accounting, and Purchasing.
• Work with plant Commercial Team to meet Customer Expectations and achieve the business plan.
• Operate in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while prioritizing actions to closure.
• Drive new technologies to upgrade manufacturing processes.
• Develop direct reports into promotable roles.
• Execute multiple high-impact initiatives to achieve overall goals.
• Diagnose errors, prioritize actions, and optimize systems and processes.

Skills

Leadership

Manufacturing ops

Talent development

PBM

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Corrugated business has an exciting leadership opportunity in San Leandro, 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 $190,000 - $210,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

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.

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.