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Department Superintendent

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Georgia, Warrenton
Mar 11, 2025
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Department Superintendent for our Lumber Mill in Warrenton, GA. This position will manage the kilns, planer mill, and shipping operations. The Superintendent will be responsible for leading a wood products production team to work injury-free/incident-free in a batch manufacturing environment consistent with PBM management philosophy and framework. They will support and lead efforts around people, quality, continuous improvement, and cost.

What You Will Do
* Facilitate the development and growth of a large team, regularly reviewing, creating, conducting, and managing performance. Your team will be comprised of up to 7 direct reports and 80 indirect reports, in both salaried and hourly roles.
* 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.
* Responsible for uptime performance, recovery, quality, departmental cost, and other Key Performance Indicators to show Year Over Year improvement.
* Plan and direct production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.
* Coordinate production activities with procurement, maintenance, and quality control activities to obtain optimum production, utilization, recovery, and quality standards.
* Responsible for analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems.
* Develop and implement operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve uptime and product quality through our continuous improvement program.
* Consult with engineering personnel related to modification of machines and equipment to improve uptime and quality of products.
* Demonstrate strong leadership skills, coordinating and managing talent development of team members and conducting meaningful performance reviews.
* Partner with maintenance teams to ensure adequate job plans, scheduling work, and promote effective preventive and predictive maintenance.
* Build employee commitment and ownership, holding employees and leaders accountable for work and career development.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
* Supervisory or management experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment.
* Experience in leading a department or organization in EH&S, Reliability, Production, Cost and Quality Excellence.
* 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.

What Will Put You Ahead

* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Industrial, Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical engineering.
* Supervisory experience in dry-end and/or green-end lumber operations.
* Experience working with multi-fuel kiln systems.
* Experience working with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) such as SAP, MP2, ActivePlant.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy [1] here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our [2] business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan 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. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click [3] here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click [4] here, [5] aqui, or [6] tu).

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