Operational Excellence Lead - Daily Management & Change

Georgia Pacific; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Disciplined Operations Leader to design and deploy a facility-wide Daily Management System that aligns priorities with daily execution. You will work with site leadership across operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, and support teams to implement disciplined routines, visual management, KPI ownership, and Leader Standard Work to raise performance and capability.

The role acts as a change leader for management system deployment and translates operating

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing leadership and operational excellence.
• Experience implementing Lean and Daily Management Systems.
• Experience coaching teams and leading organizational change.
• Ability to develop and deploy KPI governance and Leader Standard Work.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of the Daily Management System roadmap across facilities and departments.
• Establish standard management system architecture, governance, and deployment methods.
• Develop implementation plans, scorecards, milestones, and sustainability reviews.
• Facilitate site assessments and identify improvement opportunities related to management system maturity.
• Develop and standardize action registers and accountability systems.
• Establish processes for assigning, tracking, escalating, and closing actions.
• Monitor overdue action items and facilitate prioritization reviews.
• Ensure actions are linked to improvement opportunities and business objectives.
• Design and deploy structured escalation processes and response frameworks.
• Establish escalation triggers, ownership, workflows, and communication pathways.
• Integrate escalation practices into daily and weekly operating routines.
• Facilitate structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis activities.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Lean methodologies

Daily Management System

Coach and train

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Performance dashboards

Visual management

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Disciplined Operations Leader to design and deploy a facility-wide Daily Management System that aligns priorities with daily execution. You will work with site leadership across operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, and support teams to implement disciplined routines, visual management, KPI ownership, and Leader Standard Work to raise performance and capability.

The role acts as a change leader for management system deployment and translates operating