Quality Director - Dixie

Your Job

The Dixie Quality Leader is a proven Principled Entrepreneur, Economic Thinking and Strategy deploying business leader responsible for optimizing profitable quality performance, driving perpetual transformation, meeting desired customer experience for our commercial brand and operating partners across the Georgia-Pacific Dixie value stream. This leader will leverage their business skills, combined with their technical, process and product knowledge experience for board substrate (SBS), passion to drive transformative results and to efficient & effectively execute quality management systems, product quality, variability reduction & improvement skills to build optimized capabilities through the manufacturing to maximize value creation to include board inputs, quality innovation, product & process quality, and other support and technical systems for quality. The successful candidate will lead a team of 5-6 direct reports.

This will be an on-site position at the Georgia-Pacific headquarters office in downtown Atlanta, GA.

Our Team

The Quality Team is responsible for leading and influencing quality at our GP sites to meet production expectations, drive quality improvements, support perpetual transformation, profitable variation reduction, and develop quality talent using project management and statistical tools. The group's combined talents complement each other to optimize and ensure operational, brand & commercialization support that enables virtuous cycles of mutual benefit with partners, manufacturing and commercial.

What You Will Do

• Developing and driving implementation of strategies to transform quality results
• Applying PBM principles such as Principled Entrepreneurship, Economic Thinking, Venture Summaries, Marginal Analysis, etc. to maximize value creation and build & develop talent
• Partner with senior leaders in business category, R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, and other categories to align to strategic priorities for improving consumer experience
• Leading end-to-end value stream that transforms our approach to quality & creates board (SBS) optimization across all supply chain sources, perpetually transforms technology/innovation, drive profitable reduction in variability of process and products and builds an effective quality management system through manufacturing sites
• Enabling the performance of products to be integrated into operational discipline, resulting in reduced losses, driving the use of process tools that identify losses, uncover root cause and lead operations to effective corrective action which prevents reoccurrence
• Leading quality in such a way that products are delivered to our customers at the right quality, right time and in the right condition to provide excellent customer experience. This is done by having measures and metrics in place that are indicators of progress at various levels of the process, not only at finished product level, but at paper level and at shipping level and leverage technical resources & technology to optimize and drive continuous improvement
• Lead resources to leverage skills, knowledge, and experience while continually building & developing talent that optimizing the profitability of quality across the entire Dixie value stream
• Support quality processes that ensure that products and changes to our products are brought to market efficiently and effectively

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in a Chemistry, Engineering, Physics, Biology, or a Science field
• Leadership experience leading cross-functional teams and developing talent
• Experience leading transformation projects, driving strategies and executing
• Experience working with Statistical Process Controls, data analytics and variability reduction
• Experience executing quality processes, including change management, CAPA/RCA, and continuous improvement, leveraging quality management systems across multiple sites
• Experience in operations or quality leadership roles in a manufacturing and/or heavy industrial environment
• Experience executing and improving quality management systems
• Able to travel up to 30% per needs of the business

What Will Put You Ahead

• Master's degree in Business, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics, Biology, or a Science field
• Experience working with or through supply chain, marketing, operations, technology, commercial, innovation and/or portfolio management processes
• Experience organizing, prioritizing, establishing partnerships to lead and supervise teams to drive prioritized initiatives and metrics that drive and maximize value creation
• Experience in paperboard (SBS, CNK, CRB, etc.) manufacturing and quality management systems
• Experience in operations or quality leadership roles in pulp and paper manufacturing environment
• Experience driving financial results and initiating capital and venture summary solutions
• Six-Sigma certification (Black Belt or Master Black Belt) and proven practitioner & positive change agent

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.


At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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 ).