Paper Shift Manager (Coach)

Georgia-Pacific • Monticello, MS

180d

About The Position

Gia-Pacific is currently seeking a Paper Mill Shift Manager (Coach) for our Paper Machine Department in the Monticello, MS Paper Mill. The successful candidate will be a self-driven individual with a passion for excellence in Safety, Environmental Stewardship, customer quality and building a high-performance team. Additional responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, providing leadership with accountability for all hourly employees on the shift, safety, and environmental compliance; customer service, coaching, training, and development of operations personnel in safety, quality, production, problem solving, technical and interpersonal communication skills; addressing key issues and concerns; and interacting with employees from other departments to ensure success of operational goals.

Requirements

• High School Degree
• Minimum 8 years of paper machine supervision
• Experience manufacturing linerboard
• Position requires working 12 hour rotating shifts, weekends and holidays
• Must have a working knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to learn various PC-Based reporting system applications.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a union manufacturing environment
• Experience in financial and statistical skills within a manufacturing operation

Responsibilities

• Create the environment to support our #1 priority of eliminating all Significant Incidents and Fatalities.
• Take the lead on shift to foster a culture reflective of our Principle Based Management and Manufacturing Vision.
• Lead the shift and deliver expected results and demonstrate principled entrepreneurship developing a culture of ownership.
• Strong commitment to achieving safety and environmental excellence.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills.
• Work in a cooperative and collaborative manner with other departments.
• Commitment to operate efficiently, continuously improve, minimize waste and downtime, and achieve operational goals.
• Understand and troubleshoot the linerboard paper making process and paper machine operations, capable of handling on-shift maintenance needs utilizing shift resources and proactively communicating ways to eliminate repeat issues.
• Lead and manage team development, facilitate team meetings, maintain safety and housekeeping expectations and compliance to company policies.
• Ability to train in root cause analysis and problem solving and drive process improvement.
• Demonstrate the ability to use different software packages (PI Vision, ParcView, Kronos, Word, Excel, PTM, Passport, Internet applications).
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency and accountability.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Wood Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: High school or GED