Georgia-Pacific creates long-term value by using resources efficiently to provide innovative products and solutions that meet the needs of customers and society, while operating in a manner that is environmentally and socially responsible, and economically sound. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world''s leading manufacturers and marketers of building products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose and related chemicals. The company employs more than 30,000 people at approximately 300 locations in North and South America.
 

Area Reliability Leader-Pulp Dryer

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Proactively and deliberately advance MBM culture.
  
• Provide leadership and employee development including direct supervision of shift team leaders and workforce developer in the Pulp Dryer Area.
  
• Lead and advance the asset availability and reliability (people and equipment) of the pulp dryer area.
  
• Lead and promote root cause analysis (RCA), capture and categorize loss events, lead operator basic care, advance strategies around lubrication and implement asset strategy improvement (ASI). 
  
• Collaborate with Operations leader, Optimizer, Gatekeeper, Team leaders and technicians to drive out repeated failures and implement all aspects of the companys reliability mental model.
  
• Collaborate with operational support people, maintenance, reliability, and engineering to drive improved asset availability.
  
• Maintain Pulp Dryer reliability data in the AAL database and monitor key reliability measures, establishing additional measures as needed.
  
• Develop scope of work for area and annual maintenance outages.
  
• DMF development for capital and expense reliability initiatives.
  

Knowledge and Skills:

• Leadership and facilitator skills.
  
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes.
  
• Strong interpersonal and technical troubleshooting skills.
  
• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal).
  
• Reliability based maintenance and operations knowledge.
  
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
  
• Strong planning, technical troubleshooting, and organizational skills.
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related field of study with a minimum of 3 years experience in operations, maintenance, reliability, engineering or other relevant support experience in a manufacturing environment.
  
• Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word (to write business correspondence), Excel (for use of spreadsheets, reporting, simple formulas) and Outlook (for internal and external correspondence).
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related field of study with a minimum of 5 years experience in operations, maintenance, reliability, engineering or other relevant support experience in a manufacturing environment including a minimum of 2 years reliability application experience.
  
• A minimum of 3 years Supervisory experience leading and developing people.
  
• Experience in Pulp dryer, paper machine, or converting line operation.
  
• Basic process control knowledge and experience.
  
• Experience with reliability and Root-Cause-Analysis methodology and tools.
  
• Experience with Microsoft project, CMMS, and PI.
  
• Experience in developing and implementing improvement processes and projects.
  
• Experience in troubleshooting equipment issues and analyzing production loss and reliability data.
  

We are an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V
Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.