About the position
Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products division is seeking a Manufacturing Excellence Specialist (MES) for the Wauna Mill in Clatskanie, OR to support transformational improvements! The Manufacturing Excellence Specialist (MES) will use leadership, influence, continuous improvement methods, operating discipline, project management skills, manufacturing experience, and communication capabilities to implement or support rapid transformational improvements for priority initiatives. Types of initiatives can be diverse but will typically improve sites' competitive position in production, cost, quality, risk reduction, and organizational effectiveness. The success of this role will be measured in how effectively and efficiently manufacturing sites can deliver on transformation through prioritized initiatives against measured baselines and targets. As such, the MES will need the ability and courage to coach, partner with, and effectively and constructively challenge several different levels of leadership, from senior leaders to front-line leaders, as well as front-line operating and maintenance technicians.
Responsibilities
- Support creation and deployment of improvements and standards, working with employees at all levels to help facilitate, train and track progress
- Leads and facilitates improvement teams and individual improvement projects aligned with operations priorities
- Participates hands-on as a team member, problem solving resource, or group facilitator on improvement teams as required
- Learns and practices disciplined operations / daily management systems / operational excellence tools and techniques
- Collaborates with Learning & Development, Manufacturing Excellence Leaders, and key operations stakeholders to support the development, documentation, training, sustainment and improvement of standardized work
- Required to present, educate, train and facilitate at manufacturing sites
- Communicate with strong written (Microsoft Outlook and Teams) and oral communication, facilitation and presentation skills
- Take risks, challenge the status quo and work under ambiguous circumstances
- Ability to travel up to 15% of the time
Requirements
- 5 or more years of experience working within a manufacturing or industrial setting
- Must be able to prioritize multiple projects, perform complex tasks, organize and follow through consistently and work under pressure to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to influence upward, across and down without formal authority
- Experience with driving manufacturing change against targeted initiatives (i.e., working toward the end goals of EHS Excellence; Quality, Productivity, Cost Competitiveness, and Disciplined Operations) to create value
- Basic knowledge and experience using problem-solving and continuous improvement methodologies
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- Experience within a supervisory role or leadership responsibility for a team
- Experience with project/program management
- Continuous Improvement certification preferred (lean, six sigma, or similar)
- Experience leading continuous improvement teams or projects
- Experience working in manufacturing sites following Daily Management Systems/Operating Discipline
- Experience working within the pulp, paper, and/or tissue converting industry
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Life insurance, ADD, disability
- Retirement
- Paid vacation/time off
- Educational assistance
- Infertility assistance
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
