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...