MES Product Owner

Koch Inc

  • Green Bay, WI
  • 11 days ago

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    MES Product Owner

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    Green Bay, Wisconsin

    Company

    Georgia-Pacific

    Career Field

    Information Systems & Technology

    Job Number

    195839

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    Your Job

    As a Product Owner for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), you will be accountable for maximizing the value delivered through MES applications by defining product vision, prioritizing features, managing product roadmaps, and ensuring outcomes align with business objectives.

    You will work closely with manufacturing, operations, quality, maintenance, engineering, and technology stakeholders to identify opportunities, prioritize work, and deliver scalable manufacturing execution solutions that improve production visibility, quality, efficiency, and operational performance across Georgia-Pacific facilities.

    This role requires someone who understands both manufacturing execution and digital product delivery. You will connect strategic business objectives to product execution while driving adoption, value realization, operational reliability, and continuous improvement across Georgia-Pacific facilities.

    As the Product Owner, you are accountable not only for delivering features, but also for ensuring MES products achieve desired business outcomes. This includes product adoption, operational reliability, user satisfaction, process improvement, and long-term product sustainability. You will make prioritization decisions based on expected business value and continuously evaluate product performance to maximize return on investment.

    Location: Green Bay, WI (onsite three days per week)

    Our Team

    The Manufacturing Execution team delivers digital solutions that enable safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing operations across Georgia-Pacific facilities.

    Our focus is on building and scaling manufacturing execution technologies that help operators, technicians, and leaders execute standard work consistently, improve decision-making, and drive operational excellence.

    We work closely with operations leaders, manufacturing capability teams, and technology partners to ensure solutions integrate with core manufacturing systems and align with Georgia-Pacific''s broader digital manufacturing and smart factory strategy. Our goal is to create long-term business value across our manufacturing network.

    What You Will Do

    • Define and execute the product vision, lifecycle, strategy, roadmap, and backlog aligned to manufacturing, business and digital marketing strategies and priorities
    • Lead a cross-functional team of Business Analysts, and developers to deliver high-value digital solutions
    • Partner with Operations, Capability Leaders, Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, Digital Manufacturing, IT, and vendors to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and drive measurable business outcomes
    • Own backlog prioritization, balancing business value, user feedback, support needs, and technical improvements
    • Drive product delivery, manage dependencies, and remove barriers to execution across multiple teams
    • Lead product discovery activities and engage frontline users to identify opportunities that improve manufacturing execution and operational performance
    • Manage feature rollout, user adoption, training, and change management activities across the enterprise
    • Monitor product health, adoption, and business outcomes while driving continuous improvement and value realization
    • Communicate roadmap progress, priorities, risks, and results to business and Digital Manufacturing leadership

    Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

    • Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Delivery Lead, or similar role delivering digital products and business outcomes
    • Experience supporting manufacturing, operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, or environmental processes
    • Experience working with Agile delivery teams and multi-team environments
    • Experience aligning stakeholders and driving decisions across business and technical organizations
    • Experience prioritizing competing work requests based on business value and organizational objectives
    • Experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs, and stakeholder expectations
    • Willingness to travel up to 15%
    • Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

    What Will Put You Ahead

    • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Industrial Technology, Operations, or a related field
    • Experience working in manufacturing, with an understanding of manufacturing execution, operational processes, and continuous improvement practices
    • Experience using Azure DevOps or similar tools to manage backlogs, epics, features, user stories, dependencies, and delivery status
    • Experience supporting UAT, adoption planning, training content, rollout readiness, or site hypercare for manufacturing applications
    • Experience leading cross-functional alignment through strong facilitation and influence, translating business requirements and technical constraints into measurable value

    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 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.

    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.

    Equal Opportunities

    Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: E-Verify information

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