PERFORMANCE LEADER

Georgia-Pacific
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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a qualified professional to consider for the Performance Leader position at our Palatka, Florida facility.
Located just south of Jacksonville and west of St. Augustine, FL, the Palatka mill employs about 850 people has three tissue paper machines 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 Performance Leader will support the new Angel Soft tissue lines. The Performance Leader will serve as a resource and mentor to supervisors and manufacturing engineers in the Angel Soft tissue manufacturing area. This person takes the lead and is responsible for the positive technical and behavioral development of the employees in the department.

A Day In The Life Typically Includes:

* Lead by example: safety behavior, safety plan activities and proactive safe work activities
* Demonstrated ability to lead and hold others accountable in a working environment
* Ensuring that all personnel are trained and comply with all policies and guidelines, internal and external
* Evaluating and coaching the employees on capability and behavioral performance
* Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineers and Shift Capability Leaders to assure master tech/technician performance gaps are identified and addressed

Key Responsibilities
* Effectively lead, mentor, supervise, coach and develop hourly employees utilizing the MBM Guiding Principles and Operations Excellence tools to improve capability and performance
* Lead and foster an environment that develops principled business owners in an Ownership Based Work system who can identify learning/development solutions and optimize equipment
* Lead development and implementation of Performance, Skills and Qualifications capability.
Also address performance gaps for Master Techs, Technicians and Utilities against individual capability and performance measurements across the work platform
* Be the leader in advancing individual capability through strategic coaching and creative training materials and procedures
* Create an environment where the team achieves zero incidents in Environmental, Health and Safety
* Lead and foster a safety culture that values risk identification and personal ownership, through a principle based approach
* Ensure that individual roles, responsibilities and expectations (RR&Es) are aligned with mill and organizational goals to assure maximizing real long-term value for the company
* Hold team and individuals accountable for operating strategies and results
* Develop processes and systems which promote the transferring of knowledge to all team members
* Responsible for performance of all assigned employees

What You Will Need:

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelors degree or higher or 5 years of paper manufacturing experience, this experience must include previous Performance Management background
* Oral and written communication skills, interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to lead organization initiatives and change
* Demonstrated ability to lead and hold others accountable in a working environment and to assess, support and improve performance gaps against individual skill capabilities
* Demonstrated ability to be an effective team coach who seeks and shares knowledge with others for learning and employee development.
* Demonstrated ability to build a documentation, record-keeping and report system which tracks the development of all people within the work system

What Will Put You Ahead?

Preferred Qualifications:

* 10 years of manufacturing experience
* Previous leadership experience
2 or more years of supervisory experience in an industrial environment.
* Experience leading a training organization in an industrial environment
* Previous paper machine or paper converting machinery experience.
Tissue paper machine or converting equipment experience is a bonus.
* Previous experience working in a union manufacturing environment
* Experience applying financial and statistical skills within a manufacturing operation
* Experience using Microsoft Office tools in the following manner: Excel (sorting data, creating tables and creating graphs); Outlook (scheduling tasks, calendar invitations and general professional correspondence); Word (document creation/editing); PowerPoint (presentation creation/editing)
* Demonstrated ability to apply MBM® thinking in day-to-day operations for value creation.
* Willingness to help facilitate and build an Ownership-Based Work System
* Ability to institute, support and improve communication strategies, Playbook Structures and capability improvement which drives performance measurements tied to key KPIs

Want to learn more about Georgia-Pacific?

Salary and benefits commensurate with experience.
We are an equal opportunity employer. Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran
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

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