Technical Manager
Georgia Pacific
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Job summary
Georgia-Pacific seeks a Technical Manager for its Rome, GA lumber mill. You will lead technical strategy, drive process optimization, and oversee quality systems to maximize safety, quality, and throughput.
Collaborate across Operations, Maintenance, Controls, Engineering, Wood Supply, and Commercial teams to improve profitability. The role focuses on developing sustainable manufacturing processes, leveraging data analysis, and guiding capital improvements to strengthen the mill's long-term
Qualifications
- Experience leading technical or engineering teams in industrial manufacturing.
- Ability to analyze data and drive process improvements.
- Knowledge of quality systems and process control.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the facility's technical leader for manufacturing processes and quality.
- Develop strategies to improve safety, quality, recovery, and throughput.
- Lead capital projects and adoption of new technologies.
- Monitor performance metrics and drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering teams.
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Job description
Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Technical Manager for our lumber mill in Rome, GA.
The Technical Manager serves as the facility's technical leader and is responsible for driving manufacturing excellence through process engineering, quality systems, manufacturing optimization, and continuous improvement. This position partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Controls, Engineering, Wood Supply, Integrated Planning, and Commercial teams to improve safety, product quality, recovery, throughput, reliability, and overall profitability.
The Technical Manager provides leadership for the mill's technical resources and quality systems while developing sustainable manufacturing processes that maximize value from every log processed. This role utilizes technical expertise, data analysis, and strategic problem-solving to identify opportunities, improve process capability, reduce variation, and implement solutions that strengthen the mill's long-term competitive position.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high-efficiency, technologically advanced lumber manufacturing facility. Georgia-Pacific's Rome Lumber mill produces Southern Pine dimension lumber used throughout the building industry for residential and commercial construction, pressure-treated applications, trusses, pallets, and general framing.
At Georgia-Pacific, we are committed to creating long-term value through principled entrepreneurship, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. Our employees strive to achieve an injury-free workplace while delivering high-quality products and exceptional customer value.
Rome, Georgia is conveniently located approximately one hour northwest of Atlanta.
- Serve as the facility's technical leader for manufacturing processes, lumber quality, optimization systems, and process capability.
- Develop and execute technical strategies that improve safety, quality, recovery, throughput, reliability, and cost performance.
- Provide technical leadership during capital improvements, equipment upgrades, process changes, and implementation of new technologies.
- Stay current on emerging technologies and manufacturing best practices to improve the mill's competitive position.
- Analyze manufacturing performance to identify value creation opportunities that improve recovery, quality, throughput, and profitability.
- Develop, monitor, and communicate key performance metrics that evaluate machine centers, departments, and overall mill performance.
- Lead process optimization efforts by reducing process variation and improving equipment capability.
- Continuously evaluate machine performance through audits, calibration verification, trend analysis, and proactive process monitoring.
- Troubleshoot optimization systems, scanning technology, positioning equipment, and manufacturing processes to eliminate performance losses.
- Work closely with Controls Technicians and Maintenance to improve equipment reliability and process stability.
- Provide technical support for computerized optimization systems throughout the facility.
- Provide leadership for the mill's Quality Management System to ensure products consistently meet customer specifications and Georgia-Pacific quality standards.
- Lead quality assurance and quality control activities throughout the facility.
- Utilize statistical analysis and process control methods to improve process capability and product consistency.
- Lead investigations into significant quality issues and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
- Develop quality standards, auditing processes, and preventive systems that minimize defects and maximize fiber recovery.
- Support new product development, testing, and implementation.
- Assist with continuous improvement initiatives that improve safety, quality, recovery, throughput, reliability, and manufacturing costs.
- Assist with Root Cause Analysis and structured problem-solving methodologies to eliminate recurring process issues.
- Identify and implement sustainable value creation opportunities throughout the manufacturing process.
- Prioritize and manage technical improvement initiatives while measuring and communicating results.
- Supervise, coach, and develop the Quality team.
- Build strong partnerships with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Controls, Engineering, Wood Supply, Integrated Planning, and Commercial teams.
- Provide technical expertise to resolve operating and maintenance issues affecting quality, recovery, or production.
- Serve as an active member of the mill's leadership team and Continuous Improvement process.
- Experience in a technical, quality, engineering, process improvement, or operations leadership role in an industrial manufacturing environment.
- Experience providing technical leadership through direct supervision or cross-functional influence.
- Experience analyzing manufacturing data to identify and implement process improvements.
- Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams).
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Wood Science, or Business.
- Experience in lumber or wood products manufacturing.
- Experience using manufacturing analytics and visualization tools such as Power BI, PI Vision, SQL, or similar platforms.
- Experience with lumber grading systems, quality management systems, recovery optimization, and fiber yield improvement.
- Experience diagnosing complex manufacturing process issues using data analysis, statistical methods, and structured problem-solving techniques.
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.
As a Koch company and a 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 30,000 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.
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- flexible spending and health savings accounts
- life insurance
- ADD
- disability
- retirement
- paid vacation/time off
- educational assistance
- infertility assistance
- paid parental leave
- adoption assistance
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.
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