Operations Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking to grow our team by adding several Operations Managers at key sites within our footprint.The vision for these positions is centered around making a strategic investment in the hiring and development of exceptional leaders across the organization.

Our focus is on leaders who have the capabilities to lead their own site in the future, along with the mobility to relocate when the right opportunity presents itself.

The role, responsibilities, and expectations at each site will offer unique challenges for the Operations Manager to tackle.

Ideally, this will be the first position of many exciting opportunities for you to grow within Georgia-Pacific!

Our Team

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.

Click to learn more about our Consumer Products team.

What You Will Do

• Develop key business relationships and be a strategic part of the plant leadership team
• Helping our teams get better through developing plans to close the gap between how we are doing and what is possible
• Be accountable for employee and organizational development plans and people management strategies
• Identify and align operational priorities with the business vision - ensure production and delivery of the highest quality products at the lowest costs, consistent with customer requirements, company plans and profit objectives
• Partner with plant leadership to enhance facility performance and metrics - lead and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives and develop innovative practices, methods and procedures that add value for the facility
• Keeping our employees and communities safe through safe work practices and upholding our compliance standard

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Proven experience leading successful operations teams in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Experience leading improvement efforts in production, quality, or profitability
• Willing and able to relocate for future growth opportunities in the next 1-3 years

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• Experience leading change management / transformation initiatives

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.