Department Superintendent

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Department Superintendent for our Lumber Mill in Warrenton, GA.

This position will manage the kilns, planer mill, and shipping operations.

The Superintendent will be responsible for leading a wood products production team to work injury-free/incident-free in a batch manufacturing environment consistent with PBM® management philosophy and framework.

They will support and lead efforts around people, quality, continuous improvement, and cost.

What You Will Do


* Facilitate the development and growth of a large team, regularly reviewing, creating, conducting, and managing performance.

Your team will be comprised of up to 7 direct reports and 80 indirect reports, in both salaried and hourly roles.


* 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.


* Responsible for uptime performance, recovery, quality, departmental cost, and other Key Performance Indicators to show Year Over Year improvement.


* Plan and direct production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.


* Coordinate production activities with procurement, maintenance, and quality control activities to obtain optimum production, utilization, recovery, and quality standards.


* Responsible for analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems.


* Develop and implement operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve uptime and product quality through our continuous improvement program.


* Consult with engineering personnel related to modification of machines and equipment to improve uptime and quality of products.


* Demonstrate strong leadership skills, coordinating and managing talent development of team members and conducting meaningful performance reviews.


* Partner with maintenance teams to ensure adequate job plans, scheduling work, and promote effective preventive and predictive maintenance.


* Build employee commitment and ownership, holding employees and leaders accountable for work and career development.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Supervisory or management experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment.


* Experience in leading a department or organization in EH&S, Reliability, Production, Cost and Quality Excellence.


* Experience managing department-level budgets and data to foster continuous improvement.


* A working knowledge and experience with MS Word, Excel, and the ability to learn various PC-based production and operations applications.

What Will Put You Ahead



* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Industrial, Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrica...