Plant Manager - Georgia-Pacific

Are you motivated to build a winning team with the goal of being the best in manufacturing? If so, this could be the opportunity for you! Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Plant Manager for our Dixie facility in St Marys, Georgia. The Plant Manager leads a team to success while ensuring a safe and injury/incident-free environment in our fast-paced board extrusion plant. They motivate, coach, and inspire by demonstrating, promoting, and applying Georgia-Pacific's Principles Based Management (PBM®) in daily actions and decisions to deliver maximum value to the business and our customers.

Our Team

The St Marys Board Extrusion Plant is part of the Dixie® production network and is integrated with our Lexington, Kentucky operation to support the production of Dixie Cup products. The plant has roughly 50 employees in a union operating environment. We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

What You Will Do

• Develop capabilities within a team of leaders to drive improved performance of the entire production and maintenance workforce
• Balance supply and demand requirements through collaboration with two other G-P production operations
• Design and execute the operational Vision, plans and processes to improve operations performance to established maximum potential.
• Lead and set the example with expectations tied to compliance and stewardship (EH&S).
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (business leaders, Operations VP, Dixie manufacturing and business leadership) to set and drive vision and operational strategy for facility.
• Define and use clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure results and monitor the progress.
• Attract, retain, and develop talent to increase our competitive advantage.
• Manage capital investment and expenses to ensure the facility achieves financial targets and promote growth and profitability.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience supervising and developing people leaders within an industrial, manufacturing, or other production environment
• Experience driving process transformation and delivering measurable results in an industrial, manufacturing, or other production environment

What Will Put You Ahead

• Prior experience working in board extrusion operation
• Experience leading a maintenance and/or operations department within a production facility
• Experience driving transformation in a union environment

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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

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.

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.