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
- Partnering with maintenance and operations teams to identify reliability opportunities, prioritize work, and support long-term asset health
- Working with Sales and Planer to develop and meet production schedules for orders
- Developing effective plans for advancement of the kiln team members
- Building bench strength to back up other production supervisors and department superintendent
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- High School Diploma or General Educational Development (GED) equivalent
- Five (5+) or more years of experience as a leader in an industrial or manufacturing environment
- Experience with MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
- Must work nights, weekends, and holidays as needed
What Will Put You Ahead
- Wood products industry experience
- Experience with budgeting and accounting fundamentals
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Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
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