Utilities Supervisor - Lead Safe & Reliable Plant Ops

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Brunswick (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific’s Brunswick Cellulose facility seeks a Utilities Supervisor to lead the safe and environmentally compliant operation of boilers, evaporators, turbines, and feedwater systems on 12-hour rotating shifts. You will collaborate with engineers, maintenance planners, crafts, and contractors to optimize performance.

You will foster a culture of proactive risk identification, ensure policy compliance, and develop staff toward safety excellence and reliable operations while driving

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
• Experience with maintenance strategies, including AMWP, and preventive and reliability-centered maintenance.
• Experience with leading continuous improvement efforts.
• Experience working with utilities systems, including black liquor recovery boilers, bark boiler, natural gas boilers, turbines, and feedwater systems.

Responsibilities

• Foster a culture where employees proactively identify and address risks, hazards, and unsafe behaviors while encouraging suggestions for continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies and industry best practices in the operation and maintenance of recovery and power boilers, turbines, steam, and power distribution systems.
• Motivate and develop both salaried and hourly employees to enhance department performance and business management continuously.
• Provide direct supervision and leadership to achieve excellence in safety and environmental compliance.
• Develop and lead strategies to optimize the utilities department's capabilities, tracking performance against established goals.
• Collaborate with area maintenance leadership to ensure strategic operating plans are executed efficiently and reliability issues are promptly addressed using root cause analysis tools.
• Evaluate and eliminate quality and production bottlenecks, leading plans to enhance capability and competitive positioning.
• Identify and remove waste and non-value-added costs to improve the mill's competitive position, effectively managing chemical inventories in communication with procurement.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships across departments, leaders, and a union hourly workforce to meet and exceed key performance indicators in safety, reliability, and cost.
• Lead and participate in continuous improvement efforts, applying reliability concepts and critical thinking skills to troubleshoot and solve complex operational issues.

Skills

Leadership

Maintenance strategies

Continuous improvement

Utilities systems

Job description

Georgia-Pacific’s Brunswick Cellulose facility seeks a Utilities Supervisor to lead the safe and environmentally compliant operation of boilers, evaporators, turbines, and feedwater systems on 12-hour rotating shifts. You will collaborate with engineers, maintenance planners, crafts, and contractors to optimize performance.

You will foster a culture of proactive risk identification, ensure policy compliance, and develop staff toward safety excellence and reliable operations while driving