Your JobGeorgia-Pacific is seeking a Paper Mill Superintendent (Paper Assistant Department Manager) to help lead the day-to-day performance of two paper machines at our Brewton, AL containerboard mill. This position is designed for a paper manufacturing leader who understands how paper machines operate, how to improve their efficiency and profitability, and how to coach employees to achieve stronger operating results. You will provide strategic and tactical leadership across safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost. You will lead six salaried direct reports and help influence the broader paper team of more than 160 employees while partnering closely with the Paper Production Leader. This is a highly visible opportunity for a leader who wants to strengthen a complex operation and continue growing their career.
What You Will Do- Lead the safe, reliable, and profitable operation of two paper machines, translating business priorities into clear operating expectations
- Use a strong understanding of paper machine operations to identify constraints, improve machine efficiency, reduce waste, increase throughput, and strengthen overall profitability
- Coach and develop salaried and hourly employees by setting expectations, providing timely feedback, building technical capability, and reinforcing accountability
- Create an environment where employees identify hazards, manage risk, and take ownership of safety and environmental performance
- Partner with operations, maintenance, reliability, engineering, quality, and other mill leaders to improve equipment performance and operating discipline
- Lead high-value continuous improvement work focused on safety, quality, production, reliability, and cost
- Provide leadership for outage planning, routine maintenance coordination, and effective return-to-service execution
- Analyze operating data and process performance to identify trends, solve problems, and prioritize the opportunities that create the greatest value
- Drive process and equipment changes that reduce variation, improve paper quality, and increase customer satisfaction
- Ensure significant quality non-conformance events are investigated, owned, and addressed with effective corrective actions
- Apply constructive challenge and sound decision-making to evaluate alternatives and reach the best long-term solution
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)- Experience with paper machine operations encompassing stock preparation, wet-end chemistry, forming, pressing, drying, calendaring, winding, and supporting utility systems
- Experience with paper machine performance optimization involving production rate, uptime, sheet breaks, product quality, fiber yield, chemical usage, energy consumption, waste, and operating cost
- Experience supervising salaried and/or hourly manufacturing teams, including employee coaching, development, and performance management
- Experience coordinating paper machine production with maintenance, reliability, engineering, and outage activities to improve equipment availability and return-to-service performance
What Will Put You Ahead- Bachelor's degree in engineering
- Leadership experience in a labor union environment
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Our BenefitsOur 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.
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