Utilities Superintendent

Flint Hills Resources; Clatskanie (OR); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Retirement plan 401(k)

Education assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific’s Wauna Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon is seeking an Utilities Superintendent to lead power and recovery operations and develop a high‑performing team. You will coach supervisors, optimize process reliability, and align with engineering, maintenance, and operations to balance priorities and capital projects.

This role requires strong technical leadership, hands‑on management, and the ability to drive sustainable improvements while building leadership depth in a 40–45 person utilities

Qualifications

• Experience leading utilities, recovery, power operations in manufacturing.
• Ability to coach and develop supervisors and technical staff.
• Proven track record solving complex process and operating issues.
• Experience balancing day‑to‑day ops with capital projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the mill’s power and recovery areas.
• Provide technical leadership for power, utility, and chemical recovery processes.
• Coach and develop supervisors and technical team members.
• Partner with engineering, maintenance, and operations to resolve reliability and operating challenges.
• Lead improvements to stability, reliability, efficiency, and capability in utilities.
• Manage competing priorities across operations, problem solving, and capital portfolio.
• Identify risks, evaluate performance, and drive sustainable improvements.
• Establish operating expectations and maintain accountability at the team level.

Skills

Leadership experience in utilities

Coaching and developing leaders

Troubleshooting complex processes

Managing multiple priorities and capit

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Georgia-Pacific’s Consumer Products Division is seeking a Utilities Superintendent for our Wauna Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon. This is an opportunity to lead a complex utilities organization encompassing both power and recovery operations while developing a talented team that is building its technical and leadership capability. The successful candidate will combine strong operating knowledge with a hands‑on leadership approach. This leader will coach employees, strengthen technical capability, manage competing operational and project priorities, and help build the next generation of leadership within the mill.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Wauna Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 900 employees, Wauna strives to lead the tissue, towel and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $150 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

• Lead the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the mill’s power and recovery areas, providing leadership across both day-to-day operations and longer‑term operating priorities
• Provide technical leadership for complex power, utility, and chemical recovery processes, helping the team troubleshoot operating issues, understand process interactions, and make sound operating decisions
• Coach and develop supervisors and technical team members on power and recovery fundamentals, strengthening the team’s ability to diagnose problems, improve operating discipline, and sustain reliable performance
• Partner with engineering, maintenance, operations, and other mill resources to identify and resolve process reliability, equipment, and operating challenges across the utilities organization
• Lead improvements that strengthen process stability, reliability, efficiency, and operating capability within the power and recovery areas
• Manage competing priorities across day‑to‑day operations, technical problem solving, and the department’s capital project portfolio
• Use operating information and technical expertise to identify risks, evaluate performance, prioritize issues, and drive sustainable improvements
• Establish clear operating expectations, reinforce accountability, and remain directly engaged in complex problems when the developing team needs additional technical or leadership support
• Build technical capability and leadership depth across an organization of approximately 40–45 employees, including approximately 8–10 direct reports
• Support a continuous manufacturing operation, including responding to significant operational needs outside normal working hours when required

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Leadership experience in utilities, recovery, power generation, chemical/process operations, refining, pulp and paper, or comparable continuous‑process manufacturing, with technical knowledge of recovery or power operations.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing leaders.
• Experience troubleshooting complex process and operating issues
• Experience managing multiple operational priorities and projects in a manufacturing or industrial environment.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with recovery operations
• Experience in pulp and paper manufacturing
• Experience leading capital or operational‑improvement projects

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

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.

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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.

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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