Pulp Operations Leader: Reliability & Improvement

Georgia Pacific; Crossett (AR); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement plan

Paid vacation/Time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Operations Leader - Pulp to support the Crossett Paper Mill in Crossett, Arkansas. This role blends technical engineering ownership with people leadership to drive reliability, process performance, and capability development within the pulp operation.

The successful candidate will collaborate with operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, and environmental teams to optimize performance while promoting safety and accountability.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in manufacturing.
• Experience leading continuous improvement or process improvement initiatives.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, training, or developing others to improve capability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead with Principle-Based Management and influence a culture of safety, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Coach, mentor, and develop employees while identifying and closing performance and knowledge gaps across the pulp operation.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, and reliability teams to improve asset performance, operating capability, and operational effectiveness.
• Provide technical leadership and troubleshooting support for pulp processes and equipment to improve reliability, quality, and production performance.
• Analyze operational and process data to identify opportunities to improve yield, quality, efficiency, energy consumption, and overall pulp operation performance.
• Manage and improve asset strategies by partnering with reliability, planning, and maintenance resources to maximize equipment availability and long-term asset health.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, capital improvements, equipment modifications, and outage planning activities that create value for the business.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements while communicating operational performance and improvement opportunities to leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Continuous improvement

People development

Manufacturing experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Pulp & Paper background

Tools

PI Vision

PARCview

SAP

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Operations Leader - Pulp to support the Crossett Paper Mill in Crossett, Arkansas. This role blends technical engineering ownership with people leadership to drive reliability, process performance, and capability development within the pulp operation.

The successful candidate will collaborate with operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, and environmental teams to optimize performance while promoting safety and accountability.