Early Career - Manufacturing/ Operations/ Engineering Leadership Development Program

Starting your career? Make sure you’re considering your strongest options.​

While you might not know GPI by name, you’re certainly familiar with our work. In fact, chances are our products are in your pantry right now.​

If you read the smaller print, you’ll find a quiet powerhouse of a company, stealthily revolutionizing an industry, producing the essentials that fuel our country, and growing quicker than you might expect. ​

Through Graphic Packaging’s full-time 12-month training program you will: 

• Rotate through different parts of a paper mill or carton plant.
• Follow a learning curriculum and complete assessments designed to develop operations skills, provide fast-track industry experience, and teach “hands-on” operations processes and strategies
• Develop relationships with senior leadership: you are paired with a leader sponsor, peer mentor and onsite manager
• Network with other members of the Leadership Development Program (LDP) and alumni of the program
• Lead a variety of projects that impact key business initiatives – sometimes individual projects, and sometimes leading or working with a team
• Participate in a four-part learning experience called “Chip2Ship” that takes you through the entire production process starting with the wood chips all the way to shipping out the final product.

After successful completion of the program, you will graduate and join the company as a LDP Alumni where you will move immediately into an operations development plan that is aligned with business needs and your career goals. 

Relocation is a threshold requirement, and we provide relocation assistance to support you. We operate throughout North America and are looking for future leaders to support our operations.  

BACKGROUND / EXPERIENCE:

• Your prior experiences must demonstrate initiative, intellectual curiosity, strong problem-solving skills, an affinity for working in a manufacturing /operations environment, and working well in a team.
• Prior experience may include internships, co-op assignments, summer jobs, and volunteer work, leadership roles in student or college-affiliated organizations, full-time or part-time positions.
• Prior full-time experience in engineering is considered but not required.

EDUCATION / KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS:

• Undergraduate degree in Engineering (Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical), Pulp and Paper Science, Packaging, Operations Management, or related degree required

SCHEDULE DEMANDS:

• Generally, your schedule is a shift assignment, and we make efforts to schedule you during daylight hours; however, engineering in manufacturing is a shift-driven operation. You are willing to work alternate schedules as assigned when it gets the job done. This could be early mornings, nights, and/or weekends.
• You will occasionally have overnight travel that could include flying or driving

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time up to 8-hours.
• Occasional Lifting up to 20 lbs.
• Reading computer screen or other electronic devices.
• Use of various office hand and electrical tools or equipment.

Graphic Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, age, gender or sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic identity, genetic information, disability, veteran/military status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Click here to view the EEO is the Law Poster.