Operations Leader - Paper at Koch in Clatskanie Oregon United States Oregon United States

Job description

• Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Operations Leader – Paper to support our Wauna Paper Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon. A successful candidate will drive operational excellence by improving asset reliability, enhancing process performance, developing team capabilities, and creating long-term value through continuous improvement initiatives. This role partners closely with operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, and environmental teams to optimize paper manufacturing performance while fostering a culture of safety, accountability, and Principle-Based Management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Paper Department with Principle-Based Management®, fostering a culture of safety, ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership and direction to department leaders, ensuring alignment on priorities, operational excellence, and long-term business objectives.
• Develop, coach, and mentor leaders and employees while building organizational capability and succession strength across the department.
• Own the overall performance of the Paper Department, driving results in safety, quality, production, cost, reliability, and environmental stewardship.
• Lead transformational change initiatives that improve operational effectiveness, organizational capability, and business performance.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, reliability, and quality teams to improve asset utilization, operating capability, and manufacturing performance.
• Drive strategic improvement efforts focused on productivity, yield, efficiency, waste reduction, fiber utilization, energy optimization, and product quality.
• Establish and communicate a clear vision and operating strategy for the Paper Department while aligning resources to achieve business objectives.
• Lead capital improvement initiatives, outage planning, and major operational projects that create sustainable value for the mill.
• Utilize data, performance metrics, and operational insights to identify opportunities, remove barriers, and accelerate results.
• Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements while promoting risk identification and mitigation throughout the department.
• Collaborate with mill leadership to achieve integrated manufacturing objectives and support the overall success of the Wauna Paper Mill.

Requirements

• Leadership experience in a paper manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading continuous improvement, reliability, or process improvement initiatives.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, training, or developing leaders to improve capability and performance.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Paper Science, Bioresource Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Paper and/or Pulp experience.
• Experience providing leadership to teams in a manufacturing environment, formally or informally.
• Experience using process analytics and maintenance systems such as PI Vision, PARCview, SAP, or similar platforms.

Skills

Required

• Leadership
• Continuous improvement
• Reliability
• Process improvement
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Training
• Developing leaders

Preferred

• Paper and/or Pulp experience
• Process analytics

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.
• 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 candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.