PULP MILL OPTIMIZER

Description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Dixie® Consumer Products Operation is seeking qualified professionals to consider for a Pulp Mill Optimizer role supporting the Consumer Products Group Operations located in Muskogee, OK. The Muskogee facility uses integrated technology to manufacture tissue and paper towel products in a progressive production environment.

Our Team

If you have a passion around continuous improvement and creating value to drive performance results in a manufacturing facility, then we would love to talk to you. We are looking for an individual who has a business owner mindset to drive human resource initiatives and create value for the organization.

Strengths in paper mill operations, technical support, improvement processes, safety, reliability, and production quality are additive to the role. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated capability creating proactive and responsive solutions to business needs and focus on safely improving productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge and skill improvements.

What You Will Do

• Driving a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation
• Providing operational/business leadership and technical support for the manufacturing process and facilitate troubleshooting and problem solving to achieve goals
• Providing leadership in the achievement of improved performance in the areas of Wastepaper recycling process, environmental compliance, customer satisfaction, organizational effectiveness, cost management in the pulping operations area
• Work directly with each team to ensure proper grading and separation of Wastepaper, developing downgrading and agreed upon processes with GP-Recycling. Development and overall cost strategy for fiber savings
• Trialing and introducing new WP grades for each system including brightness strategies and implementing Asset Strategies for secondary fiber process equipment
• Coach and develop operators to reliably understand Wastepaper grades along with impacts to equipment and processes
• Work closely with operators and customers to troubleshoot processes, quality and Wastepaper issues and evaluate and implement improvement ideas
• Support of WP projects to reduce overall cost for the mill
• Lead Root Cause Analysis process and execute effective corrective actions for quality issues
• Create a safe workplace with all environmental, safety and business practices with emphasis on identifying and mitigating critical risks
• Lead and participate in continuous improvement efforts
• Regularly help communicate, articulate, and direct Wastepaper and other Pulp mill priorities to achieve mill and company visions
• Experience and ability to successfully work in a team-based environment

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Process/equipment optimization experience working in pulp/paper or industrial manufacturing environment
• Experience working on process improvements and projects
• Knowledge of pulp mill processes along with the fundamentals of equipment operation for effective interface with maintenance

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering or Paper Science
• Supervisory experience with responsibility for direct reports within a manufacturing environment
• Understanding of pulping operations including digesting, brown stock washing, bleaching, and ClO2 production
• Experience working in a recycled pulp or paper operation

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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.

Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf