Kiln/Shipping Supervisor

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Kiln/Shipping Supervisor to support our Rocky Creek lumber mill in Frisco City, AL.

This position will report to the Process Engineer.

The Kiln/Shipping Supervisor will work with the Kiln & Shipping 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 culture is defined by the Principle-Based Management™ philosophy which guides everyday decision making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create.

Our Team

Our Rocky Creek facility produces a variety of products from southern yellow pine, including dimension lumber, heavy studs, squares/timbers and barn timbers.

Georgia-Pacific's building products business has consistently been among the nation's top suppliers of building products to building materials dealers and large warehouse retailers.

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

To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com .

What You Will Do


* Lead employees to work injury-free and incident-free by reinforcing safe work practices, policy adherence, hazard recognition, employee ownership, and timely elimination of risks across kiln and shipping operations.


* Lead MOPED safety efforts in the assigned areas, including employee training, safe equipment and pedestrian interaction, and support for mill-wide MOPED team activities.


* Partner with mill leadership and cross-functional teams to conduct root cause analysis for safety, quality, reliability, and production events; implement corrective actions and verify sustained results.


* Lead kiln and shipping quality performance by improving stack quality, reducing waste, partnering with the Quality Control Technician to complete daily hot checks, controlling moisture targets, increasing drying consistency, minimizing defects, and maximizing grade yield and profitability.


* Build employee capability and accountability across kiln and shipping operations through coaching, regular one-on-ones, clear RREs (roles, responsibilities, and expectations), cross-training, and development planning.


* Coordinate with the Process Engineer, department supervisors, Sales, and Planer teams to align quality priorities, kiln schedules, order requirements, product flow, and availability of the correct product at the planer infeed.


* Maintain the weekly planer forecast and improve planer uptime by keeping product at the infeed.


* Prepare, validate, and distribute accurate daily kiln and shipping reports in a timely manner, including production, inventory, loading, moisture, and downtime information.


* Ensure consistent use of MovePro, SAP production orders, and MES downtime reporting to strengthen invent...