Automation Leader

About the Role

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a highly skilled Automation Leader to join our team at our Palatka, Florida Consumer Products manufacturing operation. As an Automation Leader, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and availability of our AGV fleet and Smartbox Palletizers.

Key Responsibilities

• Create a safe working environment with zero significant incidents involving Health and Safety.
• Promote environmental stewardship with the team, ensuring no significant environmental incidents occur.
• Lead and foster a culture that values risk identification and personal ownership, managing all TRAX items for the department.
• Advance the application of PBM 5 Dimensions.
• Interface with multiple paper making, converting, and shipping groups to ensure internal customers are unaffected by automation.
• Align RREs with all employees, including Automation Engineers, Automation Technicians, and AGV Technicians.
• Lead, Coach, and Mentor the automation team to understand and impact automation availability and reliability.
• Lead, Coach, and Mentor Automation Engineers to grow capabilities of shifts through training guides, troubleshooting, Master Tech skills, etc.
• Execute, support, and transform the Asset Strategy of the AGV fleet and Smartbox Palletizers through OBWS and foster principled entrepreneurship to continuously improve.
• Help develop systems and processes to improve long-term on-shift knowledge and track their effectiveness.
• Find opportunities for continued growth of automation in the mill and use data to help coordinate improvements.
• Continually search for new products and provide input on viability and sustainability with regards to automation.
• Track key performance metrics such as vehicle/Smartbox uptimes to ensure maximum availability of the fleet and work to improve interpretation of data.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or ten (10) or more years of experience working in a manufacturing/automated operation.
• Five (5) or more years of experience working within an automated system.
• Experience managing projects with a variety of size and scope.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Experience as a direct supervisor.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Two (2) or more years of experience LEADING in an automated system.
• Experience applying reliability concepts as they relate to asset strategies.
• Knowledge of Elettric80 vehicles or systems.

About Our Benefits

Georgia-Pacific offers a comprehensive benefits package to support the overall wellbeing of our employees and their families. 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.