Department Superintendent

About the role

The Dry End Production Superintendent position at Georgia-Pacific's Lumber Mill in Rome, GA, oversees the Stacker, Kilns, Planer mill, and the shipping department. The role involves leading a wood products production team to ensure work injury-free and incident-free in a batch manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the development and growth of a large team, regularly reviewing and managing performance.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills, coordinating and monitoring the quality of team members' work and providing them with clear direction.
• Fully utilize work processes to develop job plans, track work completion, and promote effective preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Build employee commitment and ownership, holding employees accountable for work and career development.
• Analyze detailed data, planning for immediate needs as well as second and third order effects.
• Drive safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively identify hazards and implement the appropriate mitigating strategies based on the risk involved.

Qualifications

• Five (5) or more years of supervisory or management experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment.
• Three (3) or more years of experience managing department-level budgets and data to foster continuous improvement.
• A working knowledge and experience with MS Word, Excel, and the ability to learn various PC-based production and operations applications.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical engineering.
• Six (6) or more years of supervisory or management experience in dry-end operations, planning, and shipping.
• Experience working with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) such as SAP, MP2, ActivePlant, etc.