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Operational Readiness Capability Leader

Georgia Pacific
$125,000.00 - $160,000.00 / yr
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
133 Peachtree Street Northeast (Show on map)
Mar 22, 2025
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Operational Readiness Capability Leader for the manufacturing organization. The ideal candidate will partner with facilities, project managers, and leaders to ensure operational readiness for capital investments.

This role is a remote position with travel that is dictated by business needs. Travel will vary and will generally be 50 - 60%.

Our Team

This team works directly with project managers, operations teams, and contractors to prepare for the startup of new equipment. The portfolio of investments includes Retail & Professional Tissue, Towel, Napkin, Dixie, Packaging and Containerboard, Cellulose, Pulping, Power, & Recovery, and Building Products.

What You Will Do
* Partner with key stakeholders to ensure project scope and accountabilities are clearly identified.
* Develop adequate resourcing plans to support operational and maintenance needs at facilities.
* Assist with start-ups, commissioning plan development and execution.
* Improve work tools, processes, contract exhibits to institutionalize Commissioning & Start-up concepts.
* Partner with internal and external Engineering, facility, and capability resources as needed.
* Assume primary and secondary leadership for leading and facilitating Operational Readiness capabilities on a portfolio of medium-to-large size projects across a number of business units.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
* 10+ years of manufacturing leadership and operating experience.
* Experience organizing operational readiness for capital projects
* Experience using MS Word to create and edit documents, Excel to create and edit spreadsheets and pull data, Project to develop schedules, and Outlook for email correspondence
* Ability to prioritize multiple issues (and projects) simultaneously
* Able & willing to perform physical tasks in hot, humid environments and work from heights when necessary.
* Ability to work non-standard hours (nights, weekends) when necessary and travel to different facilities for meetings and occasional support.

What Will Put You Ahead
* Bachelor's degree in mechanical, Chemical, or Paper Science Engineering
* Experience with start-up of various equipment types and systems in medium-to-large projects.
* Experience respectfully challenging others across a broad range of disciplines and leadership levels
* Experience working effectively with mill operating and maintenance personnel

For this role, we anticipate paying $125k - $160k per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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 [1] 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 [2] 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 [3] here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click [4] here, [5] aqui, or [6] tu).
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