Your Job
The Georgia‑Pacific Gypsum facility in Lovell, Wyoming is seeking a Stores Leader to oversee the storeroom, receiving, and MRO inventory in support of operations, reliability, and maintenance. Reporting to the Area Purchasing Manager, this role ensures the right materials are available at the right time and at the lowest total cost of ownership while upholding safety, compliance, and internal financial controls. The Stores Leader will create and sustain a disciplined storeroom focused on inventory accuracy, material availability, safety, housekeeping, and customer service to support plant reliability, cost control, and operational execution. By driving clear ownership, seamless collaboration, optimized inventory management, reliability and compliance, and continuous improvement, the role turns the storeroom into an advantaged capability and partners closely with operations, reliability, maintenance, procurement (category teams and central buying), controllers, suppliers, and other Georgia‑Pacific locations to improve material flow, reduce waste, and support facility reliability.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific’s Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical supplies and materials that support our facilities. The SS&P organization partners with our business partners and leverages best practices to uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities.
What You Will Do
- Three or more years of inventory management experience and at least one year of manufacturing experience.
- Experience with inventory management software, MP2, MPGo, Ariba, SAP/ERP systems, Power BI, or other data/analytics tools.
- Knowledge of maintenance, repair, and operations parts, spare parts strategy, equipment reliability, bill of materials, and stocked-item decision making.
- Ability to read quotes, vendor proposals, part drawings, parts lists, equipment documentation, and supplier information to help identify and manage materials.
- Experience designing or improving storeroom layout, storage strategy, inventory processes, reliability-based storage, procurement metrics, or material flow.
- Experience with cycle counting, SLOB reviews, inventory adjustments, internal financial controls, inventory audits, or off-book inventory walkthroughs.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with maintenance, operations, procurement, suppliers, controllers, and reliability teams to solve material availability or inventory control issues.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience in inventory management, storeroom operations, materials management, warehousing, supply chain, maintenance support, or a similar field.
- Willing and able to work weekends, holidays, overtime, and outage support as business needs require.
- Experience using Microsoft Office, including Word, Outlook, and Excel.
- Willing and able to routinely lift 35 lbs. individually and lift 70 lbs. with assistance.
- Willing and able to perform repetitive physical tasks for up to 8 hours per day, including lifting, walking, pushing, pulling, climbing, and bending.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Three or more years of inventory management experience and at least one year of manufacturing experience.
- Experience with inventory management software, MP2, MPGo, Ariba, SAP/ERP systems, Power BI, or other data/analytics tools.
- Knowledge of maintenance, repair, and operations parts, spare parts strategy, equipment reliability, bill of materials, and stocked-item decision making.
- Ability to read quotes, vendor proposals, part drawings, parts lists, equipment documentation, and supplier information to help identify and manage materials.
- Experience designing or improving storeroom layout, storage strategy, inventory processes, reliability-based storage, procurement metrics, or material flow.
- Experience with cycle counting, SLOB reviews, inventory adjustments, internal financial controls, inventory audits, or off-book inventory walkthroughs.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with maintenance, operations, procurement, suppliers, controllers, and reliability teams to solve material availability or inventory control issues.
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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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
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