If you have a passion for building capability in others, Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations is seeking qualified professionals to be considered for our Operations Learning & Improvement Manager at our Green Bay Packerland facility.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading the transformation of learning and development processes at our facility and will supervise a team that supports technical and non-technical training across multiple operating departments. This role will also maintain responsibility of the disciplined operations roadmap and implementation strategy within the plant. Through partnership, you will have the ability to significantly impact the overall success of the business at the plant by focusing on our learning, development, & disciplined operations practices.

This is a high-impact role, and we are looking for a leader who possesses a business owner mindset and the entrepreneurial energy it takes to rapidly transform Learning & Development (L&D), along with disciplined operations, in a principled way.

The Packerland team is a close-knit group of manufacturing employees who work as one team, striving to achieve our vision of safely delivering high-quality products, on-time, and at a competitive cost. The L&D group at Packerland partners with all internal employees, as well as with other GP mills, to develop and execute employee initiatives that improve the reliability, productivity, and safety of the Packerland operation.

• Collaborate with other leaders to ensure Learning and Development solutions support the overall vision and priorities of the business while driving transformation in how we deliver training and develop people.
• Lead a learning team responsible for providing transformational training support across the facility.
• Assist in developing and maintaining effective training programs that are needed to support Georgia Pacific's vision.
• Implement learning for a variety of roles and employee lifecycle phases using adult learning principles and models, particularly the approach to accelerated development as well as emerging technologies for learning transfer and retention.
• Oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance of learning content used for learning solutions.
• Partner in the new hire orientation process and manage the facility onboarding process for all roles.
• Oversee administration and recordkeeping of all learning records for all roles.
• Provide regular progress reports in participation and completion of learning across all modalities.
• Provide ownership of technical training to ensure the overall health of the technical learning solutions across the facility.
• Partner with department leaders to ensure adequate resources are available, and trained, to facilitate technical development for both new employees and tenured reskilling and upskilling.
• Participate in efforts to improve, innovate, and implement training and learning best practices.
• Ensure learning content evolves as operation evolves.
• Ensure technical training is being delivered, documented, validated, and verified in accordance with Georgia Pacific standards.
• Lead a team responsible for providing training support across the facility.
• Partner with department leaders, performance coaches/supervisors, other capabilities, and employees to improve and optimize learning and other talent solutions.
• Support facility leaders in tracking learning-related KPIs, identifying learning opportunities, and managing training initiatives.

• Experience in a role with at least partial responsibility for training / developing others within an industrial, manufacturing, or operations environment.
• Formal experience supervising a technical training team or a learning and development function.
• Experience using content authoring software and working with multiple software functions (administrative or within a Learning Management System (LMS) or Knowledge Management System (KMS).
• Experience working with simulator technology as part of learning solutions.
• Strong understanding of how to manage change and conduct stakeholder analysis/impacts using various Organizational Change Management (OCM) concepts, principles, and models. In addition, experience implementing large-scale change understanding the various phases of change, and leading cultural transformation initiatives.
• PMP or other project management education or related experience.

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.