Electrical Supervisor

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Electrical Supervisor for our Plywood Mill in Emporia, VA.

The Electrical Supervisor will assist in leading the Electrical team.

The ideal candidate will be a self-driven individual with a passion for excellence in safety, manufacturing, and customer focus.

You will drive safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability.

You will also work to proactively identify hazards and implement appropriate mitigating strategies based on the risks involved while monitoring the quality of work and providing guidance to the team.

This role will provide critical input to the management team and influence others, positively impacting the organization.

What You Will Do


* Lead the Emporia Electrical team to work injury-free/incident free in a continuous manufacturing environment consistent with management philosophy and framework


* Supervise/coordinate electrical department efforts that drive improvement in all associated work processes affecting EHS, compliance, reliability, quality, production, and costs


* Support the production processes to align and optimize the manufacturing enterprise in delivering value to the business


* Facilitate team development and growth, employee skill development, problem-solving and resolution, building employee commitment and ownership and holding employees accountable


* Drive safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively identify hazards and implement the appropriate mitigating strategies based on the risk involved


* Monitor the quality of craft work and provide direction to crew members to maximize efficiency


* Assist with troubleshooting production issues


* Provide safety training to crew members; coaching; team development/performance management


* Data entry and completing/generating reports


* This role will be working in a union environment

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Five (5) or more years of electrical experience in a heavy industrial setting


* Two (2) or more years supervisory experience in a manufacturing or military environment


* Working knowledge of PLC, HMI, and drives


* Working experience with remote troubleshooting


* Working knowledge of electrical and controls systems


* Working knowledge and experience with MS Word and Excel, and other PC-based production and maintenance reporting applications


* Experience routinely utilizing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or other similar problem-solving tools


* Experience in leading improvement efforts in Reliability, Predictive and Preventive Maintenance


* Experience reading electrical drawings


* Working knowledge and experience with computerized maintenance management systems


* Able to work in a manufacturing plant environment, including extended periods of time in noisy, dusty, non-air conditioned or unheated areas


* Able to work safely...