Kiln Supervisor

About the role

The Kiln Supervisor position supports the Lumber team at Georgia-Pacific's Warrenton facility. Reporting to the Dry End Superintendent, this role involves working with kiln and other area operations employees to achieve shared mill-wide production goals.

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

• Training hourly employees on the expectations and ownership of MOPED safety

• Supporting plant wide MOPED team activities

• Completing KCA’s plant wide

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

• Leading small group discussions and knowledge gathering

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

• 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

• Partnership with maintenance and operations teams to identify reliability opportunities, prioritize work, and support long-term asset health

• Supporting 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

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

Qualifications

• Wood products industry experience

• Experience with budgeting and accounting fundamentals

Skills

• Leadership

• Teamwork

• Problem-solving

• Communication

• Project management

Benefits

Our benefits package 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.

Pay

This role is salaried exempt and paid bi-monthly.

Schedule

This role requires working nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.