Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Darlington, SC Dixie® facility is in search of contribution motivated individuals for consideration to become our Performance Capability Leader. In this role, you'll apply skills as a principle-based leader to develop operating capabilities and unleash superior performance across four shift production teams. This role will have direct accountability for people performance and be a critical partner for manufacturing engineers and department leaders in aligning people, processes, and production assets to fully support successful shift operations.

Our Performance Capability Leader will report to our Operations Leader and will lead, coach, and mentor a team of 8 shift supervisors who drive performance across 4 -shifts.

Our Team

The Darlington Plant is part of the Georgia-Pacific® brand plates and bowls manufacturing operation. We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

We create a work environment that attracts, engages, and retains the best people. Our employees help others, and the business reach their full potential, promoting our Principle-Based Management culture to the work they do every day. Our technology is state of the art, and we will bring the best team together to deliver for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Darlington community.

What You Will Do

• Lead people performance by working with and through others, building operating capabilities, and embracing a bottom-up approach to problem solving and continuous improvement.
• Cultivate an environment where employees are motivated to realize their potential and contribute to the team's long-term success.
• Create clear expectations for performance and behaviors, and uphold accountability for results through coaching, mentorship, and performance management.
• Engage with your team to ensure employees understand, connect to, and embrace the site vision and associated strategies, particularly in the areas of Safety, Quality, Compliance, Reliability, and Performance.
• Partner with Shift Supervision across all four shifts to establish Roles, Responsibilities, and Expectations, maintain operational discipline, and achieve results through an ownership-based work system.
• Hire, develop, and retaining contribution-motivated employees with diverse aptitudes.
• Own the overall talent position for converting operations and optimize staffing within an ownership-based work system.
• Ensure departmental training priorities are clear and own the implementation of technician skill development processes and strategies within the converting team.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Demonstrated success leading people within a fast-paced manufacturing operation, including experience in a formal supervisory capacity.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and guiding people to high levels of skill and performance.
• Experience with safe working practices, standard operating procedures, and continuous improvement (RCA's, Lean Manufacturing, 5-Whys, etc.).
• Effective communication and computer skills needed to create presentations, develop written reports, and access data within an ERP system (i.e., SAP).

What Will Put You Ahead

• Previous responsibilities for operator / technician skill development, technical training, and / or learning & development.
• Leadership experience within a Pulp & Paper and/or converting operation.
• A two-year Technical/Vocational/ Associate's degree or higher.
• Experience applying economic thinking and data to drive decision making.

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 .

Who We Are

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.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu ).