Department Superintendent

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Dry End Production Superintendent for our Lumber Mill in Dudley, NC.

This position will manage both Dry Kilns and Planer mill processes.

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

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

What You Will Do



* Lead the Dry End department and build capacity to recognize and mitigate hazards utilizing PTZ to achieve zero SIFs.


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

Your team will be comprised of up to 6 direct reports and 60 indirect reports, in both salaried and hourly roles both on dayshift and nightshift.


* Establish ability to connect direct reports to the vision within their department and align strategies to achieve production and quality bets utilizing a disciplined operation approach.


* Work with supervisors to ensure each team is structured to maximize contributions by identifying individual's comparative advantage to achieve long-term sustainable success.



* Will be responsible for uptime performance, quality, departmental cost and other KPI's to show YOY improvement.



* Plans and directs production activities and establishes production forecasts for products to meet demands of current and future customers on-time.



* Coordinates with capabilities across all departments to obtain optimum production, utilization, recovery, yield and quality standards.



* Provide frequent feedback and support to front-line leaders utilizing PBM® aimed at closing operational gaps that exist within each production team.


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



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



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



* Work with department planners to prioritize all maintenance work.

Fully utilizing Work Process team 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)



* 2 Years Supervisory or management experience in an industrial or manufacturing setting.



* Experience in leading a department or organization in EH&S, Reliability, Production...