Production Supervisor

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Dry End Supervisor to support our Lumber team in Talladega, AL.

This position will report to the Dry End Superintendent.

The Dry End Supervisor will work with the Planer and other area operations employees to safely support the shared mill-wide production goals.

This role would be used to develop future Superintendents or Operations managers.

What You Will Do



* Leading employees to work injury-free/incident free in a manufacturing environment consistent with MBM® management philosophy and framework


* Ensure safety excellence through leading by example, promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively identify hazards and implementing the appropriate mitigating strategies based on the risk involved


* Develop culture of hazard recognition, policy adherence and risk elimination around moped interaction at dry end


* Lead and train hourly employees to have an understanding of the expectations and ownership of MOPED safety


* Support plant wide MOPED team activities


* Using KCA's as a teaching tool as well as opportunities to check for understanding


* Completing KCA's plant wide


* Be a resource for safety manager for learning events and safety reviews with plant wide leadership experience


* Be a leader of small group discussion and knowledge gathering


* Being a leader for quality plant wide


* Implement controls to improve stack quality to reduce waste, improve drying consistency and reduce risk associated with loose boards


* Maintain moisture levels to maximize grade yield and profitability


* Develop and implement effective control of drying to minimize drying related defects


* Work closely with the process engineer and departments supervisor to manage a total quality process through the plant.


* Supporting planer uptime by keeping the right product on the planer infeed and zero planer downtime due to out of wood


* Work with Sales and Planer to develop and meet production schedules for orders


* Developing effective plans for advancement of the dry end team members


* Working with other department supervisors to develop their leadership skills and knowledge, ability to give feedback, reviews, and coaching.


* Plant lead on the HR transformation supporting and training leaders


* Plant lead on operator training systems and keeping it up to date

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* E xperience as aSupervisor/leader in an industrial or manufacturing environment


* Experience with budget and accounting fundamentals


* Able to work nights, weekends, overtime and holidays as required

What Will Put You Ahead


* Five or more years of experience as a supervisor in an industrial or manufacturing environment

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