Pulp Area Operating Superintendent

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Pulp Area Operating Superintendent

Location(s)

Toledo, Oregon

Company

Georgia-Pacific

Career Field

Operations & Manufacturing

Job Number

192835

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Pulp Mill Superintendent to provide strategic and tactical leadership for pulp mill operations in Toledo, OR. This role will be responsible for safely achieving key operating objectives across safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, cost, and employee development. The successful candidate will bring deep pulp mill operating experience, strong leadership capability, and a continuous improvement mindset to optimize fiberline, woodyard, digester, bleach plant, recausticizing, lime kiln, evaporator, by-product, and outage execution performance. Long-term value is created through application of Principle Based Management and Georgia-Pacific's Guiding Principles.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is a producer of brown paper used to make cardboard and is a leader in recycling in the Northwest. The Pulp Mill team supports reliable, safe, and environmentally responsible operation of critical mill assets, including digesters, fiberline systems, woodyard operations, evaporators, recausticizing, lime kilns, and by-product processes. The Toledo Mill is located within a 10-minute drive to the Pacific Ocean, with access to outdoor activities including fishing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and boating.

What You Will Do

• Lead pulp mill operations with accountability for safety, environmental compliance, production, quality, reliability, cost, and employee development.
• Set expectations and coach operations leaders, process engineers, maintenance coordinators, supervisors, and hourly teams to improve performance and build capability.
• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, compliance discipline, and effective operating routines.
• Partner with maintenance, reliability, engineering, and operations teams to improve uptime, runnability, equipment performance, and outage execution.
• Oversee pulp mill assets and processes that may include digesters, fiberline systems, woodyard operations, bleach plants, washers, recausticizing, lime kilns, evaporators, non-condensable gas systems, turpentine, methanol, and other by-product systems.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts that reduce cost, improve yield, reduce variation, increase productivity, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Develop and manage operating budgets, maintenance spend, production targets, staffing plans, training systems, and standard operating procedures.
• Provide leadership for routine, annual, and major outage planning and execution, ensuring work is safely completed on time and aligned with mill priorities.
• Support capital project development, installation, commissioning, operator training, and sustainable implementation of new equipment or process improvements.
• Use data, operating metrics, and business systems to identify gaps, prioritize work, and deliver measurable improvements in performance.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Seven (7) or more years of experience working in a pulp and paper, manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.
• Three (3) or more years of leadership, supervisory, or operations management experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
• Experience with pulp mill processes and equipment operation, such as digesters, fiberline systems, woodyard operations, bleach plants, washers, recausticizing, lime kilns, evaporators, or by-product systems.
• Experience leading safety, environmental, production, reliability, quality, or cost improvement initiatives.
• Experience using Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Paper Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Ten (10) or more years of pulp mill operations experience.
• Experience as a Pulp Mill Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Area Manager, Asset Manager, Fiberline Manager, Woodyard Manager, or similar operations leadership role.
• Experience leading large hourly and salaried teams across shift operations, maintenance coordination, engineering support, and supervision.
• Experience managing operating budgets, production targets, maintenance spend, and business systems such as JDE or Kronos.
• Experience with environmental compliance systems for air and water emissions.
• Experience with process safety management or regulated systems such as chlorine, methanol, turpentine, non-condensable gas, or chemical recovery processes.
• Experience leading major outages, minor outages, capital installations, equipment commissioning, operator training, and SOP development.
• Experience improving uptime, reducing environmental losses, improving training systems, and delivering measurable cost savings.
• Experience managing in a labor union environment.

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 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.

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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.

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 here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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