Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is seeking a qualified Shift Leader to lead our retail and Angel Soft tissue manufacturing team at the Pennington facility. Reporting to the Performance Leader, the Shift Leader will oversee a team of 15-30 employees within the Tissue department. This role partners closely with the Department Operations Team to drive long-term value and operational excellence for Georgia-Pacific.
Our Team
The Naheola Mill is the largest employer in the community and actively supports community outreach, workforce development, and education. The area offers excellent outdoor activities, including world-class hunting and access to the Tombigbee River for fishing, boating, and water skiing. Residents enjoy a mild climate, low cost of living, and proximity to the Gulf Coast's beaches and resorts.
What You Will Do
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Effectively lead, mentor, supervise, coach, and develop hourly associates within the assigned department utilizing the Principle-Based Management Guiding Principles and Operational Excellence tools to improve capability and performance.
- Lead and foster an environment that develops principled business owners in an Ownership-Based Work system (OBWS) who can identify learning/development solutions and optimize equipment.
- Lead development and implementation of Performance, Skills, and Qualifications capability.
- Address performance gaps for Master Techs and Technicians and measure performance across the work platform.
- Handle administrative functions to include payroll, time keeping, attendance, performance evaluations, and other required administrative human resource functions.
- Ensure that individual roles, responsibilities, and expectations (RR&E's) are aligned with mill and organizational goals to assure maximizing real long-term value for the company.
- Regularly execute Leader Standard Work to inspect what is expected of the team.
- Hold team and individuals accountable for operating strategies and results.
- Develop processes and systems that promote the transfer of knowledge to all team members.
- Collaborate with manufacturing engineers and other salaried leaders within the department to ensure master tech/technician performance gaps are identified and addressed.
- Serve as the incident command for conducting critical communications to all necessary resources when required.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
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Demonstrated leadership experience within a manufacturing or military environment
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Experience using computer software and business systems to track information, generate reports, and communicate operational data.
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Experience being responsible for the performance of direct reports
What Will Put You Ahead
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Experience managing ownership-based work systems to build on-shift capabilities
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Experience working within a tissue or towel manufacturing operation
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Experience with safe work practices and Root Cause Analysis techniques
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Experience working within a continuous process manufacturing environment
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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 ).
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