Lead Pulp Mill Operations & Safety Excellence

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Toledo (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking a Pulp Mill Superintendent to provide strategic and tactical leadership for Toledo, OR pulp mill operations. The role focuses on safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production quality, cost control, and employee development, leading the fiberline, woodyard, digester, bleach plant, recausticizing, lime kiln, evaporator, and by-product processes.

The ideal candidate has deep pulp mill operating experience and a proven ability to drive continuous

Qualifications

• Requires leadership experience in pulp and paper or industrial environments.
• Experienced with safety, environmental, production, reliability, quality, or cost improvement initiatives.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

• Lead pulp mill operations with accountability for safety, environmental compliance, production, quality, reliability, cost, and employee development.
• Set expectations and coach operations leaders, process engineers, maintenance coordinators, supervisors, and hourly teams to improve performance and build capability.
• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through hazard identification, risk reduction, compliance, and structured operating routines.
• Partner with maintenance, reliability, engineering, and operations teams to improve uptime, runnability, equipment performance, and outages.
• Oversee pulp mill assets and processes including digesters, fiberline, woodyard, bleach plants, recausticizing, lime kilns, evaporators, and by-product systems.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts to reduce cost, improve yield, reduce variation, increase productivity, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Develop and manage operating budgets, maintenance spend, production targets, staffing plans, training systems, and SOPs.
• Provide leadership for outage planning and execution, ensuring work is safely completed on time and aligned with mill priorities.
• Support capital project development, installation, commissioning, operator training, and implementation of new equipment or process improvements.
• Use data and metrics to identify gaps, prioritize work, and deliver measurable improvements in performance.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Continuous improvement

Strategic thinking

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

JDE

Kronos

Job description

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking a Pulp Mill Superintendent to provide strategic and tactical leadership for Toledo, OR pulp mill operations. The role focuses on safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production quality, cost control, and employee development, leading the fiberline, woodyard, digester, bleach plant, recausticizing, lime kiln, evaporator, and by-product processes.

The ideal candidate has deep pulp mill operating experience and a proven ability to drive continuous