Quality Manager

Georgia Pacific Corp.; Gurdon (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is hiring a Quality Manager for our Gurdon plywood site in Arkansas. The role focuses on creating strategies to optimize operations while maintaining an injury-free environment, in a batch manufacturing setting aligned with our PBM framework.

You will lead process improvements, oversee quality records, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce waste and ensure product quality. Strong data analytics and QMS experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with data analytics and statistics in a continuous manufacturing environment.
• Experience implementing and managing Quality Management Systems (QMS).
• Experience leading product trials and driving process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Analyze process performance and develop metrics to promote safety, production, quality, and yield improvements.
• Supervise and coordinate production efforts to improve environmental, health, safety, quality, production, and costs.
• Apply data analytics and structured problem-solving to optimize ongoing production.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, and engineering to implement production strategies.
• Identify gaps, prioritize opportunities, and outline execution plans.
• Manage product quality records (COAs, calibrations, process validations) per QMS.
• Serve as liaison with third-party auditors and ensure non-conforming products are addressed.

Skills

Data analytics

SQL

Databases

QMS

Process improvement

Lean Six Sigma

Supervisory experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline

Lean Six Sigma Training

Tools

None

Job description

Your Job

We are currently hiring a Quality Manager for our Gurdon, AR plywood site. The Quality Manager will be responsible for creating and implementing strategies to optimize on-going operations while working injury-free/incident-free in a batch manufacturing environment consistent with our Principle Based Management (PBM) philosophy and framework. The successful candidate will be an integral part of the technical and operations teams that are challenged to manufacture high quality products while eliminating waste. We seek creative and innovative individuals that can conceptualize and profitably engage quality measurements to further improve our products for our customers.

At Georgia-Pacific, we are innovative, we manufacture products that make people's lives easier, and we provide careers, not just jobs for our employees. We foster a culture that values integrity and compliance more than anything else and we encourage our employees to challenge the status quo. If you are interested in joining our team, you can learn more about our Building Products division at www.buildgp.com.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury-free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit http://www.buildgp.com.

What You Will Do

• 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 3rd 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

Who You Are (Basic 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

What Will Put You Ahead

• Five (5) years of experience as a Process or Quality Engineer, or related discipline
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline
• Lean Six Sigma Training
• Experience in a wood products environment
• Supervisory experience

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. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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

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. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).