Location(s)Monticello, MississippiCompanyGeorgia-PacificCareer FieldEngineeringJob Number156401Your JobGeorgia-Pacific is seeking a Paper Machine Assistant Optimizer to join our team in Monticello, MS. This position will support the paper Machine Optimizer assisting with strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operation objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost.The successful candidate will focus on improving safety, quality, productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement. The Assistant Optimizer will be able to effectively manage many high priority tasks and projects with a sense of urgency and possess problem-solving skills with the ability to utilize a constructive challenge process to drive to the optimum solution. Ability to build relationships and communicate with different levels of the organization are important to be successful in this role.Our TeamGeorgia-Pacific Monticello is a fully integrated containerboard mill that employs 450 employees and continues to benefit from extensive capital investment. This position is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding organization with tremendous growth potential. Monticello, Mississippi, is an hour South of Jackson, MS, and an hour Northwest of Hattiesburg, MS.What You Will Do
Driving a culture of safety, quality, and environmental excellence
Coach and develop employees
Respond to machine downtime and off-quality events focusing on root cause identification and minimizing losses
Building TCC's and coaching expectations
Assist with both outage and routine maintenance planning
Understanding, communicating, and aligning goals in quality, production, safety, and reliability
Driving process & equipment modifications that result in improved product quality
Ensuring major quality non-conformance events are identified, owned, investigated and effective corrective actions are implemented to mitigate / eliminate waste
Leading teams in the identification, evaluation, development and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that add the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement
Providing leadership through the application of Koch's Principle Based Management philosophy to achieve superior results
Fill Paper Machine Optimizer role as needed
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Bachelor's degree and 2 years of paper machine operations experience OR 5 years of paper machine operations experience
Willingness to continuously learn leadership, management and paper making process
Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
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