Production Superintendent - Gypsum

Your Job

Do you aspire to leverage and further develop your skills and lead a team to excellence in safety, efficiency, and quality? If so, this could be the opportunity for you! Georgia Pacific is seeking a Production Superintendent in Tacoma, WA.

The Production Superintendent will lead a team to incident-free performance in a continuous manufacturing environment; consistent with our PBM® management philosophy and framework.

If you are a driven leader who can operate with a principled entrepreneurial spirit, then we'd like to learn more about you!

Our Team

Our Tacoma facility has a rich history producing gypsum wallboard for a wide variety of customers.

Georgia-Pacific's Building Products business is consistently among the nation's top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers.

To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com .

And, to learn more about our gypsum products, visit www.gpgypsum.com.

What You Will Do


* Create an environment where the team achieves Zero incidents in Environmental, Health and Safety.


* Lead and foster a safety culture that values risk identification and personal ownership, through a principle-based approach.


* Create an environment where the team participates in risk reduction.


* Develop process and systems which allow the shift leaders to succeed.


* Lead, mentor, supervise, coach, and develop hourly and salaried employees utilizing our PBM Values and Operations Excellence tools to improve capability and performance.


* Ensure that individual roles, responsibilities, and expectations (RR&E's) are aligned with plant and organizational goals to assure maximizing real long-term value for the company.


* Hold team and individuals accountable for operating strategies.


* Create an environment that promotes transferring knowledge to team members.


* Lead development and implementation of Performance, Skills and Qualifications capability.


* Assist with onboarding of new hourly employees for the department.


* Interface with Maintenance and other Team Members, to identify and address performance gaps.


* Collaborate with Production Supervisors and Business Capabilities to assure operator/technician performance gaps are identified and addressed.


* Manage hourly staff scheduling exceptions.


* Seek to resolve personnel issues in a union environment.


* Challenge the status quo to facilitate continuous improvement.


* Leveraging strong oral and written communication skills to communicate with the facility team, leadership, and our corporate team.


* Willing and able to work various shifts as needed - days, nights, weekends, holidays, and be available on call.


* The Production Superintendent will be responsible for covering on-call rotation within the production department.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* High school diploma or GED.


* Knowledge of Root Ca...