Pulp Mill Technical Assistant

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Toledo (OR); Presencial; USD 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Paid Vacation/Time Off

Educational Assistance

Parental Leave

Adoption Assistance

Descripción de la vacante

Georgia-Pacific LLC in Toledo, OR is seeking a Pulp Mill Technical Assistant to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations with a PBM mindset. You will lead process improvement, maintenance prioritization, and operator development to improve safety, production, quality, and performance.

The role partners with operators, maintenance, and engineering to build shared understanding of roles, responsibilities, and decision rights, enabling value creation and mutual benefit across shifts

Formación

• Two (2) or more years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing, heavy industrial, or military environment.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook

Responsabilidades

• Promote safe operations, environmental compliance, and stewardship by holding self and others accountable to Our Values, operating discipline, and risk-based decision making.
• Identify and implement process, reliability, and cost improvement opportunities that create superior value for the mill, employees, customers, and community.
• Use knowledge, data, and field engagement to diagnose gaps, understand root causes, compare alternatives, and recommend actions that improve long-term results.
• Support maintenance planning, outage execution, and asset reliability efforts by aligning priorities to value at stake, risk reduction, and sustainable equipment performance.
• Develop and maintain operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and training materials that help crews apply principles, build capability, and make better decisions.
• Coach and train operators to improve knowledge, judgment, ownership, and contribution, helping employees self-actualize and strengthen comparative advantage.
• Lead or support continuous improvement and capital projects with a principled entrepreneurship mindset: challenge current practices, seek better methods, and learn from results.
• Support disciplined operations and standard work across all crews while encouraging respectful challenge, bottom-up knowledge sharing, and continual improvement when better approaches are identified.
• Communicate clearly with operations, maintenance, engineering, and leadership to create shared understanding, remove barriers, and drive mutual benefit across work groups.

Conocimientos

Supervisory experience

Safety-minded

Educación

Associates Degree or higher in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or related field

Herramientas

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Kronos

Descripción del empleo

Your Job

The Pulp Mill Technical Assistant supports the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of the Pulp Mill through a PBM mindset focused on long-term value creation, stewardship, and mutual benefit. This role provides technical leadership for process improvement, equipment reliability, maintenance prioritization, operator development, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The Pulp Mill Technical Assistant supports the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of the Pulp Mill through a PBM mindset focused on long-term value creation, stewardship, and mutual benefit. This role provides technical leadership for process improvement, equipment reliability, maintenance prioritization, operator development, and continuous improvement initiatives. The position works closely with operators, crew leaders, maintenance, and engineering teams to improve safety, production, quality, and operating performance. It requires building shared understanding of roles, responsibilities, expectations, and decision rights so work is done by those with the best knowledge and closest connection to the opportunity or risk.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific’s Toledo, OR site manufactures linerboard and corrugated medium on three paper machines, using virgin and recycled fiber. The mill employs approximately 450 people and focuses on safe, sustainable, reliable operations. Our culture is grounded in integrity, respect, and mutual benefit. We expect all team members to hold themselves and others accountable for both results and behaviors.

What You Will Do

• Promote safe operations, environmental compliance, and stewardship by holding self and others accountable to Our Values, operating discipline, and risk-based decision making.
• Identify and implement process, reliability, and cost improvement opportunities that create superior value for the mill, employees, customers, and community.
• Use knowledge, data, and field engagement to diagnose gaps, understand root causes, compare alternatives, and recommend actions that improve long-term results.
• Support maintenance planning, outage execution, and asset reliability efforts by aligning priorities to value at stake, risk reduction, and sustainable equipment performance.
• Develop and maintain operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and training materials that help crews apply principles, build capability, and make better decisions.
• Coach and train operators to improve knowledge, judgment, ownership, and contribution, helping employees self-actualize and strengthen comparative advantage.
• Lead or support continuous improvement and capital projects with a principled entrepreneurship mindset: challenge current practices, seek better methods, and learn from results.
• Support disciplined operations and standard work across all crews while encouraging respectful challenge, bottom-up knowledge sharing, and continual improvement when better approaches are identified.
• Communicate clearly with operations, maintenance, engineering, and leadership to create shared understanding, remove barriers, and drive mutual benefit across work groups.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Two (2) or more years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing, heavy industrial, or military environment
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook

What Will Put You Ahead

• Associates Degree or higher in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related field
• Experience coaching and mentoring employees to improve their knowledge and skills, as well as performance
• Working knowledge of paper machine operation
• Experience using Kronos
• Experience communicating (written and orally), and presenting to individual contributors to senior management

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

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 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 300,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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.