Pulp & Paper Asset Manager: Safety, Reliability & Optimization

Georgia-Pacific is hiring an Asset Manager to join our team in Toledo, OR (Container board) supporting the Pulp department. This position will provide strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operating objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost. The successful candidate will focus on safely improving productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement. Long-term value is created through the application of the company’s business philosophy of Principle Based Management and Georgia‑Pacific’s Guiding Principles.

• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation
• Collaborate directly with operators, shift leaders and asset managers to meet the business objectives of the department and influence continuous improvement
• Lead teams in the identification, development, evaluation and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that add the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement
• Integral team member of outage planning and execution of routine and annual machine outages
• Drive process & equipment modifications that result in improved product quality, reduced variation, and higher customer satisfaction
• Assist in development and implementation of capital projects involving process improvements to document and optimize efforts

• 5 or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
• 3 or more years of experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies
• Experience using Microsoft Office tools in the following manner:
  Excel (sorting data, creating tables and creating graphs);
  Outlook (scheduling tasks, calendar invitations and general professional correspondence); and Word (document creation/editing)

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering
• A technical associate’s degree and/or military equivalent maintenance training
• Five (5) or more years of leadership or supervisory experience within a pulp and paper manufacturing operation
• Experience with Pulp processes and equipment operation
• Experience managing in a labor union environment
• Experience with chemical process safety
• Capital project development and installation

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