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Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is hiring a Technical Assistant (Assistant Superintendent) to join our team in Toledo, OR (Containerboard) supporting the Power and Utilities Area (including Causticizing and Recovery). This position will provide strategic and technical 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.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific Toledo is a producer of brown paper used to make cardboard and is a leader in recycling in the Northwest. The Toledo Mill is located within a 10-minute drive to the Pacific Ocean. Many outdoor activities are available near the mill including fishing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and boating.
What You Will Do
• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation
• Collaborate directly with operators, shift leaders and Superintendents 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
• Lead outage planning and execution for cycle and routine outages; serve as an integral team member for annual outages.
• Assist in development and implementation of capital projects involving process improvements to document and optimize efforts
• Use process data, operating trends, and field observations to troubleshoot Power, Utilities, Recovery, and Causticizing systems and identify opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, environmental performance, and operating stability
• Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, reliability, and process control teams to resolve chronic equipment and process issues involving boilers, steam systems, turbines, liquor cycle equipment, rotating equipment, instrumentation, and process controls
• Support outage scope development by identifying technical priorities, validating repair recommendations, and ensuring equipment and process risks are addressed before restart.
• Lead or participate in root cause analyses, management of change reviews, and technical problem-solving efforts related to safety, environmental compliance, reliability, quality, and cost performance
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• Two (2) or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
• One (1) 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);Microsoft Project; Outlook (scheduling tasks, calendar invitations and general professional correspondence); and Word (document creation/editing)
What Will Put You Ahead
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering
• Experience with recovery boiler, power boiler, steam generation, turbine, recausticizing, lime kiln, evaporator, or utility systems in a pulp and paper operation
• Experience using process historian data, DCS graphics and trends, or statistical tools to troubleshoot process variation and equipment performance
• Knowledge of boiler water treatment, combustion systems, liquor cycle chemistry, causticizing chemistry, emissions controls, or energy optimization
• Experience supporting outage planning, asset reliability improvements, root cause analysis, management of change, or capital project development in a heavy industrial operation
• Three (3) 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
• Six Sigma training and certification
• Statistical Process Controls (SPC) experience
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.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .
Who We Are
As a Koch company and 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 300,000 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.
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 ).