Department Superintendent

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Dry End Production Superintendent for our Lumber Mill in Pineland, T X .

This position will manage the 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.

We have two p laning facilities on site, one mill is a traditional full dimensional mill and the other is a new Comact 2x4, 2x6, 2x8 up to 16ft in length mill.

This position would fill an opening for either facility.

What You Will Do



* Lead the Dry End department and build capacity to recognize and mitigate hazards utilizing PTZ (pat h to zero) to achieve zero SIFs (significant injuries or fatalities) .


* 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 4 direct reports and 5 0 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 adequatejob plans, scheduling work, and promote effective preventive and predictive maintenance.


* Build employee commitment and ownership, holding employees and leaders accountable f...