Paper Shift Manager (Coach)

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is currently seeking a Paper Mill Shift Manager (Coach) for our Paper Machine Department in the Monticello, MS Paper Mill. The successful candidate will be a self-driven individual with a passion for excellence in Safety, Environmental Stewardship, customer quality and building a high-performance team. Additional responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, providing leadership with accountability for all hourly employees on the shift, safety, and environmental compliance; customer service, coaching, training, and development of operations personnel in safety, quality, production, problem solving, technical and interpersonal communication skills; addressing key issues and concern; and interacting with employees from other departments to ensure success of operational goals.  

Our Team

Georgia-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

• Create the environment to support our #1 priority of eliminating all Significant Incidents and Fatalities.

• Take the lead on shift to foster a culture reflective of our Principle Based Management and Manufacturing Vision.

• Lead the shift and deliver expected results and demonstrate principled entrepreneurship developing a culture of ownership.

• Strong commitment to achieving safety and environmental excellence.

• Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills.

• Work in a cooperative and collaborative manner with other depts.

• Commitment to operate efficiently, continuously improve, minimize waste and downtime, and achieve operational goals.

• Understand and troubleshoot the linerboard paper making process and paper machine operations, capable of handling on-shift maintenance needs utilizing shift resources and proactively communicating ways to eliminate repeat issues.

• Lead and manage team development, facilitate team meetings, maintain safety and housekeeping expectations and compliance to company policies.

• Ability to apply and train root cause analysis and problem solving and drive process improvement.

• Demonstrate the ability to use different software packages. (PI Vision, ParcView, Kronos, Word, Excel, PTM, Passport, Internet applications)

• Demonstrate a sense of urgency and accountability.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• High School Degree

• Minimum 8 years of paper machine supervision

• Experience manufacturing linerboard

• Position requires working 12 hour rotating shifts, weekends and holidays

• Must have a working knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to learn various PC-Based reporting system applications.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience working in a union manufacturing environment

• Experience applying financial and statistical skills within a manufacturing 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 candidates knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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.

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.

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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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