Kiln Supervisor

Koch•Warrenton, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Kiln Supervisor to support their 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 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Wood products industry experience
Experience with budgeting and accounting fundamentals

Responsibilities

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 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