Outage Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Division is seeking an Outage Leader to develop and lead the project and outage work processes at the Muskogee Paper Mill in Oklahoma. This position supports the full lifecycle of maintenance shutdowns, from planning and coordination to execution and review. In this role, you will collaborate closely with leadership, operations, maintenance and engineering teams to ensure outages are effectively scheduled and carried out, maximizing facility reliability and efficiency.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Muskogee Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 750 employees, across more than 600 acres, Muskogee strives to lead the tissue, towel, and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $50 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to identify and implement process improvements that enhance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), reliability, cost efficiency, and risk reduction.
• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of scheduled outages, managing the full lifecycle.
• Support the Outage Team by providing regular progress updates, helping develop the outage coordination plan, and vetting scope submittals using a risk matrix to control scope and costs.
• Administer the scope collection process, including managing cutoff dates and enforcing a Scope Freeze to allow adequate time for detailed planning and cost estimation.
• Drive a singular, integrated outage schedule and oversee the implementation of a quality contracted work package process to ensure clear deliverables and smooth execution.
• Establish planning guidelines and metrics for planners, and execution teams to standardize and optimize turnaround outage execution.
• Build and maintain a robust Quality of Work program focused on delivering event-free, one-time startups while achieving outage safety and environmental performance goals.
• Apply strong leadership and management skills to prioritize tasks, facilitate problem-solving, manage change, and escalate issues effectively to keep projects on track.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Outage planning and scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Pulp and Paper experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Paper Sciences.
• Project Management experience.
• Experience with SAP and scheduling applications (P6, MS Projects, etc.)

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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.

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, aqui, or tu).

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