Quality Control Technician (Warrenton, GA)

About the role

Your Job Georgia-Pacific is now hiring an experienced Quality Control Technician to join our Lumber facility in Warrenton, GA. In this hands-on role, you’ll play a critical part in ensuring our products meet high quality and safety standards while supporting continuous improvement in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Perform inspections, data collection, troubleshooting, and process audits to ensure sawmill operations produce lumber that meets quality, safety, and production targets.
• Responsible for Safety & Compliance: Adhere to all plant safety, environmental, and quality policies and procedures at all times. Maintain strict PPE compliance (safety glasses, hearing protection, steel-toed boots, and other required PPE). Follow lockout/tagout, confined space, and other required safety procedures when applicable.
• Quality inspections & Documentation: Perform routine and ad-hoc inspections to verify product dimensions, grade, and visual quality against specifications. Use calipers, micrometers, tape measures, gauges, and other measuring devices precisely; record results in logs and electronic files. Complete and maintain QC documentation (inspection reports, nonconformance reports, calibration records) and store files on the designated website or local folders.
• Process Monitoring & Audits: Conduct process audits to determine when processes are in or out of specification; escalate issues per procedure. Follow and execute a structured quality schedule (sampling plans, inspection frequency) to support continuous production flow. Execute and document routine equipment and measuring device calibrations; track calibration due dates.
• Troubleshooting & Optimization: Troubleshoot lumber quality issues across the sawmill process and make clear, actionable recommendations to operations and maintenance teams. Understand saw line machine centers and make appropriate offsets/adjustments to improve product quality; work directly with Optimizer software and PLC/HMI interfaces. Apply root-cause problem solving (5 Whys, fishbone, basic 8D/ corrective action) to identify and eliminate systemic failures.
• Collaboration & Communication: Communicate effectively with teammates, production operators, maintenance, and supervisors when issues arise. Train or coach operators on inspection methods, measurement techniques, and quality expectations as needed. Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, Kaizen events, and cross-functional problem solving.
• Administrative & Computer Skills: Maintain inspection records, update reports/logs, and generate periodic quality summaries for supervisors. Use Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) and other plant systems to enter, analyze, and present inspection and quality data.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year experience in a manufacturing environment.
• 1 year experience in a quality/inspection role.
• Experience using calipers, micrometers, measuring tape, and common hand tools.
• Proficient with basic computer use (Microsoft Office — Excel and Word).

What Will Put You Ahead

• 3+ years of quality experience in manufacturing, preferably lumber or wood products.
• Experience with lumber grading and wood products inspection.
• Familiarity with PLC/HMI interfaces, Optimizer software, and maintaining machine offsets.
• Demonstrated root-cause analysis and corrective action experience (8D, 5 Whys).

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and perform physically demanding tasks including climbing ladders and working at heights or in confined spaces.
• Ability to work in a sawmill environment with dust, noise, heat, and cold conditions.

Physical Location

331 Thomson Highway, Warrenton, GA 30828