Pulp Area Operating Superintendent

Koch•Toledo, OR

84d•Onsite

About The Position

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Pulp Mill Superintendent to provide strategic and tactical leadership for pulp mill operations in Toledo, OR. This role will be responsible for safely achieving key operating objectives across safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, cost, and employee development. The successful candidate will bring deep pulp mill operating experience, strong leadership capability, and a continuous improvement mindset to optimize fiberline, woodyard, digester, bleach plant, recausticizing, lime kiln, evaporator, by-product, and outage execution performance. Long-term value is created through application of Principle Based Management and Georgia-Pacific’s Guiding Principles.

Requirements

Seven (7) or more years of experience working in a pulp and paper, manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.
Three (3) or more years of leadership, supervisory, or operations management experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
Experience with pulp mill processes and equipment operation, such as digesters, fiberline systems, woodyard operations, bleach plants, washers, recausticizing, lime kilns, evaporators, or by-product systems.
Experience leading safety, environmental, production, reliability, quality, or cost improvement initiatives.
Experience using Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Paper Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
Ten (10) or more years of pulp mill operations experience.
Experience as a Pulp Mill Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Area Manager, Asset Manager, Fiberline Manager, Woodyard Manager, or similar operations leadership role.
Experience leading large hourly and salaried teams across shift operations, maintenance coordination, engineering support, and supervision.
Experience managing operating budgets, production targets, maintenance spend, and business systems such as JDE or Kronos.
Experience with environmental compliance systems for air and water emissions.
Experience with process safety management or regulated systems such as chlorine, methanol, turpentine, non-condensable gas, or chemical recovery processes.
Experience leading major outages, minor outages, capital installations, equipment commissioning, operator training, and SOP development.
Experience improving uptime, reducing environmental losses, improving training systems, and delivering measurable cost savings.
Experience managing in a labor union environment.

Responsibilities

Lead pulp mill operations with accountability for safety, environmental compliance, production, quality, reliability, cost, and employee development.
Set expectations and coach operations leaders, process engineers, maintenance coordinators, supervisors, and hourly teams to improve performance and build capability.
Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, compliance discipline, and effective operating routines.
Partner with maintenance, reliability, engineering, and operations teams to improve uptime, runnability, equipment performance, and outage execution.
Oversee pulp mill assets and processes that may include digesters, fiberline systems, woodyard operations, bleach plants, washers, recausticizing, lime kilns, evaporators, non-condensable gas systems, turpentine, methanol, and other by-product systems.
Lead continuous improvement efforts that reduce cost, improve yield, reduce variation, increase productivity, and improve customer satisfaction.
Develop and manage operating budgets, maintenance spend, production targets, staffing plans, training systems, and standard operating procedures.
Provide leadership for routine, annual, and major outage planning and execution, ensuring work is safely completed on time and aligned with mill priorities.
Support capital project development, installation, commissioning, operator training, and sustainable implementation of new equipment or process improvements.
Use data, operating metrics, and business systems to identify gaps, prioritize work, and deliver measurable improvements in performance.