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.

Asset Availability Leader-Utilities

Leaf River Cellulose, LLC, is a world-class manufacturing facility where team members are using innovative technologies to produce specialty and market fluff pulp for a variety high-end uses across the globe.

Our products are used in applications ranging from paper products to diapers and hygiene products as well as specialty applications including textiles, pharmaceuticals, food, paints, and plastic molding components.

For nearly 30 years, the Leaf River team has been on a journey to make the best products possible for customers while doing it in new and innovative ways.

Creating value for our customers and for society is the ultimate goal for our business, and one of our comparative advantages in our ability to do so is our employees.

With a workforce of approximately 300, Leaf River is a non-union facility located in the heart of South Mississippi, just 20 miles from Hattiesburg and 75 miles from the Gulf Coast.

As one of three mills in the GP Cellulose business, Leaf River is a showcase of safety, operational and environmental excellence. Maintaining the highest levels of workplace safety for employees is crucial and is reflected in our status as an OSHA VPP Star site and a multi-year winner of the Georgia-Pacific CEO Safety Excellence Award.

GP Cellulose is also committed to environmental sustainability and stewardship through every stage of our business, using environmentally conscious production practices to maximize the use of renewable raw materials throughout our process.

The mill generates nearly 100 percent of the power necessary for operations and is able to sell the surplus to the grid.

Our culture is defined by the Market-Based Management philosophy which guides everyday decision making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Proactively and deliberately advance MBM culture
• Lead and advance the asset availability and reliability of the Utilities 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 Utilities 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.
• Experience working in a team environment with a collaborative work style.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Strong planning, technical troubleshooting, and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Computer proficiency with MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Project and PI.

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.

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.
• Experience in Power and Recovery and lime kiln and caustic operations in a Kraft Mill.
• Basic process control knowledge/experience.
• Experience with reliability and Root-Cause-Analysis methodology and tools.
• Experience in developing and implementing improvement processes and projects.
• Experience in troubleshooting equipment issues and analyzing production loss and reliability data.

Salary and benefits commensurate with experience.
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.