Your Job
Responsibility: Develop skills of Project Engineering Team to help compete and win at capital execution, own 10-year capital outlook roadmap and deliverable dates, execute value added projects with intent and understanding of the true value created for corporation and site.
Expectation: Projects executed within reasonable timeline at budget. Application of critical thinking skills to help prioritize safety, sustaining, cost saving, and revenue generating projects to best position our mill for long term value creation. Ability to challenge if value proposition is not clearly defined for project. Maintain integration of Project Engineering and Mill as one team.
Our Team
The Georgia Pacific Mill located in Crossett, AR is located in Southeast Arkansas, Crossett Paper Operations is a manufacturing site where more than 550 employees produce products for the consumer business, including Angel Soft and Quilted Northern bath tissue. Crossett is a safe, modern community at the heart of some of the finest hunting, fishing and wildlife locations in the South, yet is a short drive to shopping, food and entertainment centers and within a few hours of major urban centers.
What You Will Do
- Promote safety through proactive involvement in safety training, adherence to safety policies, and inclusion of company safety initiatives in project deliverables
- Develop the project engineering team by identifying and understanding comparative advantage of individuals and arranging team to most efficiently execute projects
- Skill up team, be lifelong learners, understand what new technologies are emerging in the field that leads to tangible value creation.
- Review projects to understand developed project scopes, objectives, and goals and work with operations team to validate value
- Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements
- Track project costs to meet budget
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan for 1year, 3year and 10year outlook
- Identify and manage potential risks and liabilities, provide input to risk management plans, and anticipate risks that could adversely impact project success or mill operations
- Perform quality control throughout the projects to maintain standards expected, specifications cited, and relevant governing body regulatory requirements - Ensure proper acceptance tests and inspection criteria are project integrated
- Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers, execute payment on agreed terms, escalate issues to allow timely resolution
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress - Communicate with project owners to ensure alignment to project goals
- Delegate tasks to project team members best positioned to complete same and motivate them to complete tasks on time
- Participate in rotating weekend duty to provide operational support as project engineering representative on weekends and holidays
What you Need
- Bachelor's Degree or 10 plus years in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
- 3 or more years of project management experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
- 2 or more years managing people (supervisor, foreman, area leader)
- Must participate in rotating weekend duty
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
- Additional years of project management experience
- Computer Skills: EcoSysTM, SAP, Microsoft Project, Auto Cad, large file transfer sites
- Paper Mill, Converting, and Shipping experience
- Belief that you're actions today can make tomorrow better
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Hiring Philosophy
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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.
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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.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf