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Maintenance Superintendent - Converting

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Oregon, Clatskanie
Mar 05, 2025
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products division is seeking a Maintenance Superintendent for the Wauna Mill in Clatskanie, OR. An ideal candidate will spearhead preventative and predictive maintenance programs, offering technical support to troubleshoot issues, minimize downtime, and enhance process efficiencies in our converting department. This role collaborates with engineers and operations team members to assess and fulfill their maintenance needs for daily operations and shutdowns. Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, this position oversees salaried direct reports and manages a team of 40 employees.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Wauna Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 700 employees, Wauna strives to lead the tissue, towel and napkin business. Our team recently [1] invested more than $150 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

[2] Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do
* Drive safety excellence by promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to identify hazards and implement risk-based mitigation strategies.
* Facilitate team development and growth by supporting employee skill advancement, problem-solving, and resolution, while building commitment and holding employees accountable.
* Establish metrics, goals, and benchmarks to promote continuous process improvement and align the manufacturing enterprise to deliver business value.
* Monitor craft work quality, providing direction to maximize efficiency, and collaborate with engineers and team members to assess maintenance needs for daily operations, unplanned work, and planned shutdowns, providing necessary resources.
* Clearly communicate daily milestone expectations when assigning tasks.
* Assist with technical troubleshooting to enhance safety, reliability, and quality, reduce downtime, and optimize process efficiencies.
* Be adaptable to support site and company initiatives, offering safety training, coaching, team development, performance management, data entry, and report generation.
* Leverage the expertise of Environmental Health and Safety, Operations, Reliability, and Engineering teams to enhance maintenance planning, ensuring comprehensive strategies that improve operational efficiency, safety compliance, and system reliability.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

* Supervisory experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment with responsibility for direct reports.
* Maintenance experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
* Experience using a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Manufacturing System).
* Experience with implementation of precision maintenance
* Converting experience in pulp & paper or similar industry (corrugated, packaging, plastics, food & beverage etc.)

What Will Put You Ahead

* Associate's degree or higher in Engineering.
* Experience with manufacturing methods and continuous improvement processes
* Experience with OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) and Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).
* Pulp & Paper Experience

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 [3] here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and 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 300,000 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 [4] 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 [5] here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click [6] here, [7] aqui, or [8] tu).

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1. https://news.gp.com/2024/04/georgia-pacific-investing-more-than-150-million-to-grow-consumer-tissue-business
2. https://www.gp.com/product-overview/consumer-products/
3. https://jobs.kochcareers.com/pages/culture
4. https://www.kochind.com/about/business-philosophy
5. https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf
6. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_English.pdf
7. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_Spanish.pdf
8. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_Polish.pdf
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