Quality Leader - Wood Products & Process Optimization

Flint Hills Resources; Gurdon (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is hiring a Quality Manager for its Gurdon, AR plywood site to lead strategies that optimize operations while ensuring injury-free performance in a batch manufacturing setting. You will collaborate with operations, maintenance, and engineering to improve safety, quality, and yield, while coordinating with EHS, QA, and external auditors.

The role emphasizes data-driven problem solving, process optimization, and strict adherence to the QMS standards as part of a larger PBM-based

Qualifications

• Two (2) years of experience working in a continuous industrial manufacturing process.
• Experience with data analytics and statistics, SQL, Databases.
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience working with Quality Management Systems (QMS).
• Experience leading product Trials.

Responsibilities

• Support value creation efforts by analyzing process performance and developing key metrics to promote process improvement in safety, environmental, production, quality, value, and yield performance and digital transformation.
• Supervise and coordinate production efforts that result in sustained improvement in all associated work processes including Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Compliance, Reliability, Quality, Production, and Costs.
• Use Data Analytics and a structured approach to problem solving.
• Develop and apply strategies to optimize on-going production in conjunction with the operations, maintenance, and engineering teams throughout the organization.
• Identify gaps and collaborate with key site and divisional personnel to value and prioritize identified opportunities and outline execution strategies accordingly.
• Oversight of records as they pertain to product quality including: COA’s, Calibration Records, Production Records, Process Validations, Department Checks, and others as defined by the QMS Manual and Records and Information Compliance Standards.
• Manage product quality, value and yield to contribute to the overall success of the facility.
• Serve as a liaison between Georgia-Pacific and the 3 rd party auditors.
• Enforcement of standard operating procedures and coaching of production personnel pertaining to QMS program responsibilities, including quality checks and data collection and oversight of non-compliant products.
• Work with plant leadership and production personnel in the recognition and correction of noncompliant conditions in all production departments to ensure delivery of prompt and appropriate root cause analysis and corrective actions and act as a gatekeeper for customer claim response.

Skills

Data analytics

Statistics

Leadership

Problem solving

Quality mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline

Lean Six Sigma Training

Tools

SQL

Databases

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is hiring a Quality Manager for its Gurdon, AR plywood site to lead strategies that optimize operations while ensuring injury-free performance in a batch manufacturing setting. You will collaborate with operations, maintenance, and engineering to improve safety, quality, and yield, while coordinating with EHS, QA, and external auditors.

The role emphasizes data-driven problem solving, process optimization, and strict adherence to the QMS standards as part of a larger PBM-based