Koch Industries

Pulp Area Operating Superintendent

Koch Industries$110K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in pulp and paper, manufacturing, industrial, or military environments
  • 3+ years of leadership experience in manufacturing or industrial settings
  • Pulp mill processes experience with equipment like digesters and bleach plants
  • Proven track record in safety, environmental, production, or cost improvement initiatives
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office tools such as Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

  • Lead safe and compliant pulp mill operations
  • Coach teams to enhance performance and capabilities
  • Promote safety and environmental excellence
  • Collaborate with teams to boost uptime and equipment performance
  • Manage pulp mill assets and oversee critical processes
  • Drive continuous improvement to maximize productivity and customer satisfaction
  • Oversee budget management and operational planning

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Pulp Mill Superintendent to provide strategic and tactical leadership for pulp mill operations in Toledo, OR. This role will be responsible for safely achieving key operating objectives across safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, cost, and employee development. The successful candidate will bring deep pulp mill operating experience, strong leadership capability, and a continuous improvement mindset to optimize fiberline, woodyard, digester, bleach plant, recausticizing, lime kiln, evaporator, by-product, and outage execution performance. Long-term value is created through application of Principle Based Management and Georgia-Pacific's Guiding Principles.

What You Will Do
• Lead pulp mill operations with accountability for safety, environmental compliance, production, quality, reliability, cost, and employee development.
• Set expectations and coach operations leaders, process engineers, maintenance coordinators, supervisors, and hourly teams to improve performance and build capability.
• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, compliance discipline, and effective operating routines.
• Partner with maintenance, reliability, engineering, and operations teams to improve uptime, runnability, equipment performance, and outage execution.
• Oversee pulp mill assets and processes that may include digesters, fiberline systems, woodyard operations, bleach plants, washers, recausticizing, lime kilns, evaporators, non-condensable gas systems, turpentine, methanol, and other by-product systems.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts that reduce cost, improve yield, reduce variation, increase productivity, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Develop and manage operating budgets, maintenance spend, production targets, staffing plans, training systems, and standard operating procedures.
• Provide leadership for routine, annual, and major outage planning and execution, ensuring work is safely completed on time and aligned with mill priorities.
• Support capital project development, installation, commissioning, operator training, and sustainable implementation of new equipment or process improvements.
• Use data, operating metrics, and business systems to identify gaps, prioritize work, and deliver measurable improvements in performance.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• Seven (7) or more years of experience working in a pulp and paper, manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.
• Three (3) or more years of leadership, supervisory, or operations management experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
• Experience with pulp mill processes and equipment operation, such as digesters, fiberline systems, woodyard operations, bleach plants, washers, recausticizing, lime kilns, evaporators, or by-product systems.
• Experience leading safety, environmental, production, reliability, quality, or cost improvement initiatives.
• Experience using Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.

What Will Put You Ahead
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Paper Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Ten (10) or more years of pulp mill operations experience.
• Experience as a Pulp Mill Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Area Manager, Asset Manager, Fiberline Manager, Woodyard Manager, or similar operations leadership role.
• Experience leading large hourly and salaried teams across shift operations, maintenance coordination, engineering support, and supervision.
• Experience managing operating budgets, production targets, maintenance spend, and business systems such as JDE or Kronos.
• Experience with environmental compliance systems for air and water emissions.
• Experience with process safety management or regulated systems such as chlorine, methanol, turpentine, non-condensable gas, or chemical recovery processes.
• Experience leading major outages, minor outages, capital installations, equipment commissioning, operator training, and SOP development.
• Experience improving uptime, reducing environmental losses, improving training systems, and delivering measurable cost savings.
• Experience managing in a labor union environment.

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 .

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.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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