Western Regional Project Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Project & Engineering Group is seeking a Project Manager to join our Western Regional Projects team. This role provides project leadership to 5-10 projects at a time that are in various phases of the project work process and various/multiple locations in the appropriate Region

This will be a remote role with 50% travel supporting manufacturing facilities.

Our Team

The GP Projects & Engineering team works across the United States working with our facilities on capital project development and execution. We are engineers, project managers and designers focused on a quality delivery. We partner with our mills as one team, one vision, one result.

What You Will Do

• Interface with Project Management Organization (PMO), Businesses and Plant Leadership to develop and deliver small to medium projects (up to $15M) to reduce cost, increase capacity, improve safety, and sustain operations.
• Promote team culture that is focused on meeting commitments while maintaining a safety excellence.
• Empower project team members to understand and accept their accountabilities by ensuring project delivery expectations are clearly defined to meet the project objectives.
• Provide leadership to remove project obstacles by working with, and through, others.
• Facilitate interface between design-build partners and internal GP partners (mill/business)
• Plan, execute, and close out projects throughout project lifecycle. Including ownership of scope, cost, schedule, and risk.
• Provide oversight to GP procured equipment and services.
• Primary oversight of project change management
• Manage stakeholder engagement, ensure coordination with facilities for integrating project startup (Day 1 Readiness)
• Drive a continuous improvement mindset using lean construction principles.
• Mange and develop key external partner relationships.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 3 or more years of experience working within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with project and construction management systems and concepts.
• Willing and able to travel regionally at least 50% of the time (Project Dependent Fluctuates).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc).

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent.
• Experience with LEAN project delivery methodologies.
• Industry experience within pulp, paper and building products industry.
• 5 or more years of experience of project and/or construction management of industrial / manufacturing construction projects.
• 3 or more years of experience in design-build, Integrated Project Delivery, or similar, project execution.

For this role, we anticipate paying $100k - $130k per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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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.