Your Job Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products division seeks a Performance Leader (Production Supervisor) for the Muskogee Paper Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. A strong Performance Leader in our Pulp Area, enhances hourly operations employees' capabilities and manages their performance. The leader should understand the mill and be accountable for product system results influenced by team performance. Ideal candidates excel in interpersonal and communication skills, constructively challenge for improvement, stay current on best practices, and effectively collaborate and engage with teams.
Our Team For over 50 years, the Muskogee Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 700 employees, across more than 600 acres, Muskogee strives to lead the tissue, towel, and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $50 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.
Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.
What You Will Do - Model and champion Principle Based Management® to align team behavior with the organizational vision and a positive, productive culture.
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop employees; set clear expectations, provide constructive feedback, and hold team members accountable.
- Ensure resources, training, and tailored development plans to build skills and long-term organizational value.
- Promote knowledge sharing, cross-training, and open communication to strengthen collective expertise and solve challenges.
- Partner with area/crew leaders, manufacturing engineers, skill builders, and reliability coordinators to identify and close performance and knowledge gaps.
- Oversee day-to-day pulp operations-ensure process stability, product quality, staffing, and effective shift handovers (e.g., digesters, washing, bleaching, chemical dosing, screening).
- Drive continuous-improvement and reliability initiatives to optimize yield, reduce downtime, improve energy efficiency, and track key performance metrics.
- Prioritize and manage safety and environmental compliance in support of Georgia Pacific's safety vision; collaborate with EHS and reliability teams on preventive maintenance and risk mitigation.
- Communicate production status, improvement plans, and safety priorities to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) - Provided one-on-one and group coaching to increase technical proficiency and task execution.
- Directed the development and implementation of safety programs and initiatives in manufacturing, industrial, or military settings.
- Delivered regular performance feedback, defined RR& Es, and tracked follow-through on improvement actions.
- Implemented initiatives to shift departmental culture and align behaviors with organizational objectives.
What Will Put You Ahead - Associate's Degree or higher in Engineering, Manufacturing or Operations Management.
- Pulp and paper experience.
- Experience using Kronos and SAP.
- Experience driving continuous improvement.
- Supervisory experience with responsibility for direct reports.
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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.
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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.
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