Manufacturing Shift Operations Leader

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified professionals for the Manufacturing Shift Operations Leader to support our retail tissue manufacturing area at our Palatka, FL facility. Located just south of Jacksonville and west of St. Augustine, FL, the Palatka mill employs about 950 people and has four tissue paper machines as well as several converting lines and produces consumer tissue products such as bath tissue and paper towels sold under the Georgia‑Pacific brand names of Angel Soft®, Quilted Northern®, Brawny®, and Sparkle®.

The Manufacturing Shift Operations Leader will work in our Tissue Paper Machine (TPM) Department, reporting to the Performance Leader. The Manufacturing Shift Operations Leader will be positioned in a specific department and will directly supervise approximately 15‑30 team members. This position will partner with Department Operations Team to create the greatest long‑term value for Georgia‑Pacific.

Shift to be determined as this role works a 12‑hour rotating Dupont schedule.

The Palatka mill and its products are a critical part of GP’s Consumer Products portfolio, including high‑profile Angel Soft®, Quilted Northern®, Brawny®, and Sparkle® brands. GP has invested heavily at Palatka in recent years to deliver competitive tissue and towel products including a new towel paper machine. The mill also features two Kraft paper machines and recent investments in a state‑of‑the‑art Daily Operations Center (DOC) – a singular control hub for our asset monitoring.

With more than 950 team members, the mill is a highly strategic operation for GP and a foundational part of the local community and economy.

Located 45 minutes west of the beautiful beaches of St. Augustine, the mill is nestled in the outskirts of the growing city of Palatka. Jacksonville, Daytona Beach and Gainesville are approximately one hour away, and Orlando is only two hours! In an area ideal for many different people, interests, and lifestyles, the Palatka mill is a rare find!

• 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 which promote the transferring of knowledge to all team members.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers and other salaried leaders within the department to assure master tech/technician performance gaps are identified and addressed.
• Serve as incident command for conducting critical communications to all necessary resources when required.

• Three (3) or more years of experience in a leadership role within a manufacturing or military environment.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Software in the following manners:
  Excel (creating charts, formatting cells etc.), Outlook (creating folders, creating email messages and sending to distribution lists, scheduling appointments/meetings on calendars, etc.), Word (creating/editing documentation, formatting text, creating tables and process documentation, etc.), PowerPoint (presentation creation/editing/presenting).
• Experience being responsible for the performance of direct reports.

• Three (3) or more years of experience…