Kiln Supervisor

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Kiln Supervisor to support our Lumber team in Warrenton, Georgia.

This position will report to the Dry End Superintendent.

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

This position is salaried exempt and paid bi-monthly.

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

Our Team

Our Warrenton facility is a new state-of-the art lumber mill that opened in the Fall of 2019.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high efficiency and technologically advanced lumber mill.

GP Warrenton produces Southern Pine dimension lumber, the workhorse of the building industry.

It is an affordable, strong, durable softwood that is excellent for pressure treating, light frame construction, general utility framing, studs, pallets, crafting, and floor and roof trusses.

Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace.

Warrenton is approximately 45 miles West of Augusta, GA and 110 miles East of Atlanta, GA.

What You Will Do



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


* Ensuring 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


* Developing culture of hazard recognition, policy adherence and risk elimination around moped interaction at kilns


* Leading and training hourly employees on the expectations and ownership of MOPED safety


* Supporting 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


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


* Being a leader of small group discussions and knowledge gathering


* Being a leader for quality plant wide


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


* Developing and facilitating assigned hourly resources who work on a daily 12-hour, 3 shift rotation


* Maintaining moisture levels to maximize grade yield and profitability


* Developing and implementing effective control of drying to minimize drying related defects


* Working closely with the process engineer and departmental supervisors 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


* Planning, coordinating, and executing kiln outages by aligning resources, schedules, contractors, and work scopes to support safe and efficient operations
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