Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Training Supervisor to support workforce development and training execution at our Anchor Packaging manufacturing facility in Jonesboro, Arkansas. This position will help facilitate the plant-level training process, maintain training curriculum, track employee skill progression, and partner with plant leadership, department managers, supervisors, and trainers to ensure employees are developing appropriately before being released into roles independently.
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting a more structured and consistent training process for the facility. This includes supporting new hire training, role-specific training, on-the-job training, standard practices training, and continued development for employees across the plant.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific's Northeast Arkansas facilities produce plastic packaging products under the Anchor Packaging name. As part of Georgia-Pacific Food Service Solutions Group, 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. These 3 manufacturing locations employee ~900 individuals dedicated to applying innovative processes to produce high quality rigid containers and cling film for the food service industry. The Jonesboro facility is focused on building capability across the workforce through structured training, discipline operation, and continued investment in our employee's development
What You Will Do
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Lead and foster a safety culture that values risk identification and personal ownership, through a principle-based approach
- Own the onboarding process for hourly employees and continue to improve this
- Facilitate the transfer of knowledge between team members, enabling them to succeed
- Work closely with each of the Area Leaders to create a Skills Matrix for operator positions or tech centers
- Work with each Area to maintain the Individual Development Plans (IPDs) for personnel
- Foster an environment where the team strives for zero incidents in Environmental, Health, and Safety performance metrics
- Collaborate with Production Leaders, Manufacturing Engineers, Shift Performance Coaches, and other team members to identify and address operator performance gaps
- Proactively stay current in best practices and be a continuous learner
- Ensure the certification process leads to success within the product stream
- Provide resources to help team members develop their careers
- Constructively challenge the status quo to facilitate continuous improvement
- Lead training sessions and presentations for employees and leadership
- Embody a sense of urgency and initiative to independently deliver expected results
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
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Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, training, operations, or leadership role.
- Experience supporting or leading employee training, onboarding, skill development, or process standardization.
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Experience working with supervisors, department leaders, or cross-functional teams to execute plant priorities.
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Ability to organize training records, track progression, and follow up on open items.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and other computer-based platforms.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience in a manufacturing training role
- Experience in thermoforming, sheet extrusion, packaging, or plastics manufacturing.
- Experience working with production, quality, safety, materials, or maintenance teams in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience coaching trainers or supporting on-the-job training processes.
- Experience using systems such as SAP, learning management systems, or other platforms used for training, documentation, or employee records.
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 ).
