Plant Manager

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Are you motivated to build a winning team with the goal of being the best in manufacturing? If so, this could be the opportunity for you! Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Plant Manager for our Dixie facility in St Marys, Georgia. The Plant Manager leads a team to success while ensuring a safe and injury/incident-free environment in our fast‑paced board extrusion plant.

They motivate, coach, and inspire by demonstrating, promoting, and applying Georgia‑Pacific's Principles Based Management (PBM) in daily actions and decisions to deliver maximum value to the business and our customers.

The St Marys Board Extrusion Plant is part of the Dixie production network and is integrated with our Lexington, Kentucky operation to support the production of Dixie Cup products. The plant has roughly 50 employees in a union operating environment. We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

• Develop capabilities within a team of leaders to drive improved performance of the entire production and maintenance workforce
• Balance supply and demand requirements through collaboration with two other G‑P production operations
• Design and execute the operational Vision, plans and processes to improve operations performance to established maximum potential.
• Lead and set the example with expectations tied to compliance and stewardship (EH&S).
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (business leaders, Operations VP, Dixie manufacturing and business leadership) to set and drive vision and operational strategy for facility.
• Define and use clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure results and monitor the progress.
• Attract, retain, and develop talent to increase our competitive advantage.
• Manage capital investment and expenses to ensure the facility achieves financial targets and promote growth and profitability.

• Experience supervising and developing people leaders within an industrial, manufacturing, or other production environment
• Experience driving process transformation and delivering measurable results in an industrial, manufacturing, or other production environment

• Prior experience working in board extrusion operation
• Experience leading a maintenance and/or operations department within a production facility
• Experience driving transformation in a union environment

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