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Production Technical Specialist - Green End

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Arkansas, Fordyce
Apr 28, 2026
Your Job Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Production Technical Specialist for our Fordyce OSB facility in Fordyce Arkansas. The Production Technical Specialist will utilize leadership, influence, operations experience, and communication abilities to analyze key performance data on process, product, and equipment to identify strategic improvements that create value. This position provides process engineering oversight for the entire manufacturing process, reliability to improve quality, increase production and yield, and eliminate waste. The Production Technical Specialist is responsible for working with team members at all levels to capture strategic value opportunities and implementing operating practices to improve the mills overall competitive position. The primary responsibility of this position will be quality oversight for the Green End of the facility focused on the creation and implementation of sustainable processes to extract the most value from our raw material. Our Team Georgia-Pacific in Fordyce, AR manufactures Oriented Strand Board (OSB), compressed strands of wood chips that are bound together by adhesives which prevent moisture intrusion. The most common uses are sheathing in walls, flooring, and roof decking. Georgia-Pacific's Building Products business has consistently been among the nation's top suppliers of building products to building materials dealers and large warehouse retailers. Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com. What You Will Do Supervise, coordinate, and support value creation and production efforts by analyzing process performance and developing key metrics to promote process improvement in safety, production, quality, value, yield, and cost performance. Work with other departments (Integrated Planning, Sales and Marketing, Wood Supply) to ensure mill optimization parameters are set to maximize value creation. Develop, analyze and report appropriate performance metrics that evaluate machine center/department/mill performance. Identify improvement opportunities, work with the appropriate team members to execute, and track the success of change efforts. Troubleshoot for equipment problems when optimizing and/or positioning equipment is not performing correctly. Work with outside vendors and technicians as required to maintain mill optimization systems. Be a key and active member of the mill's Continuous Improvement process. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) Proficient in Microsoft Office and experience with industrial statistics and statistical analysis Experience with Root Cause Analysis, Gap identification and analysis, and project or program planning and execution. What Will Put You Ahead Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or economics. Prior OSB manufacturing experience in a leadership technical/process optimization role 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 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, aqui, or tu). #LI-LS1