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Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Asset Availability Leader at our Wauna mill in Clatskanie, OR. This role is an exciting opportunity to drive reliability and performance improvements within an operation. This position will be instrumental in gathering and analyzing data, then driving reliability performance improvements and leading the mill to a higher state of reliability.

Our Team

This role will support primarily our paper mill operations at the Wauna mill. You will work in collaboration with operations, maintenance, and reliability professionals at the site to drive these improvements. You will be supported by process engineers in a teaming environment to drive process strategies that improve the mills overall operation.

What You Will Do

• Promote the growth of our culture by utilizing our mental models in interactions with mill team members, GP team members, vendors, and visitors
• Assist in connecting operators to overall long-term vision as well as business unit metrics
• Coordinate/Facilitate the departments machine outage preparation and execution meetings
• Develop and lead equipment reliability improvement initiatives
• Document and close the loop on troubleshooting activities, improvement ideas, operating procedural changes, change of work practices, and training
• Analyze and communicate key reliability measures and suggest new measures as needed (to include updating the Asset Availability Database)
• Lead/participate in the RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis), ASI (Asset Strategy Improvements) and other processes designed to identify and eliminate operational and equipment problems
• Help drive RCFA recommendations to completion
• Coordinate handoffs to the Reliability Engineering group
• Work closely with the Engineers, Capability Leaders, and operators to build skill and capabilities of operators

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering
• Two (2) or more years of work experience in a paper, chemicals, manufacturing or utility operations environment
• Experience leading/participating in the RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis), asset strategies and other processes designed to identify and eliminate operational and equipment problems
• Experience with reliability-based maintenance and operations
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Software such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and Project

What Will Put You Ahead

• Specific experience in paper mill, pulp mill or utility/boiler operations
• Experience leading people and teams
• Experience with PI Historian or PARCview

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Hiring Philosophy

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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.

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.