Kiln Supervisor

About the role

The Kiln Supervisor position supports the Lumber team at Georgia-Pacific's Warrenton facility in Warrenton, Georgia. Reporting to the Dry End Superintendent, this role involves working with Kiln and other area operations employees to ensure safe production aligned with the Plant Management Board (PMB) philosophy.

Responsibilities

• Leading employees to work injury-free/incident free in a manufacturing environment consistent with PMB 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 interactions 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
• 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 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
• 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

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Disability
• Retail
• Education Assistance
• Infertility Assistance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Adoption Assistance

Pay

This role is salaried exempt and paid bi-monthly.

Schedule

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