Paper Assistant Asset Manager

Georgia Pacific; Toledo (OR); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible spending account

Health savings account

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Assistant Asset Manager to join our team in Toledo, OR. The role focuses on strategic and tactical leadership to meet safety, environmental, reliability, production, quality, and cost objectives within the Paper department.

You will drive productivity improvements through process and equipment optimization and skill development, aligning with the company's Principle Based Management and Guiding Principles.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.
• 1+ years leading continuous improvement initiatives or reliability strategies.
• Proficient with MS Office (Excel, Outlook, Word).

Responsibilities

• Promote safety and environmental excellence; identify risks and mitigate them.
• Collaborate with operators, shift leaders, and asset managers to meet department objectives.
• Lead initiatives to improve safety, quality and cost, delivering high-value improvements.
• Support outage planning and execution of routine and annual machine outages.
• Drive process and equipment changes to improve product quality and reduce variation.

Skills

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Safety culture

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is hiring an Assistant Asset Manager to join our team in Toledo, OR (Containerboard) supporting the Paper department. This position will provide strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operating objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost. The successful candidate will focus on safely improving productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement. Long‑term value is created through the application of the company's business philosophy of Principle Based Management and Georgia‑Pacific's Guiding Principles.

Responsibilities

• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation
• Collaborate directly with operators, shift leaders and asset managers to meet the business objectives of the department and influence continuous improvement
• Lead teams in the identification, development, evaluation and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that add the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement
• Integral team member of outage planning and execution of routine and annual machine outages
• Drive process & equipment modifications that result in improved product quality, reduced variation, and higher customer satisfaction
• Assist in development and implementation of capital projects involving process improvements to document and optimize efforts

Qualifications

• Two (2) or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
• One (1) or more years of experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies
• Experience using Microsoft Office tools in the following manner: Excel (sorting data, creating tables and creating graphs); Outlook (scheduling tasks, calendar invitations and general professional correspondence); and Word (document creation/editing)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering
• Five (5) or more years of leadership or supervisory experience within a pulp and paper manufacturing operation
• Experience with paper processes and equipment operation
• Experience managing in a labor union environment
• Experience with chemical process safety
• Six Sigma training and certification

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.

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. (For Illinois E‑Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).