Dry End Superintendent

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Dry End Production Superintendent for our Lumber Mill in Dudley, NC. This position will manage both Dry Kilns and Planer mill processes. The Superintendent will be responsible for leading a wood products production team to work injury-free/incident-free in a manufacturing environment consistent with PBM management philosophy and framework. They will support and lead efforts around continuous improvement, quality, cost, and employee development.

• Lead the Dry End department and build capacity to recognize and mitigate hazards utilizing PTZ (path to zero) to achieve zero SIFs (significant injuries or fatalities).
• Facilitate the development and growth of a large team, regularly reviewing, creating, conducting and managing performance plans. Your team will be comprised of up to 4 direct reports and 50 indirect reports, in both salaried and hourly roles both on dayshift and night shift.
• Establish ability to connect direct reports to the vision within their department and align strategies to achieve production and quality bets utilizing a disciplined operation approach.
• Work with supervisors to ensure each team is structured to maximize contributions by identifying individual's comparative advantage to achieve long-term sustainable success.
• Will be responsible for uptime performance, quality, departmental cost and other KPI’s to show YOY improvement.
• Plans and directs production activities and establishes production forecasts for products to meet demands of current and future customers on-time.
• Coordinates with capabilities across all departments to obtain optimum production, utilization, recovery, yield and quality standards.
• Provide frequent feedback and support to front-line leaders utilizing PBM aimed at closing operational gaps that exist within each production team.
• Will be responsible for analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems.
• Develops and implements operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve uptime and product quality through our continuous improvement program.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills, coordinating and managing talent development of team members' creating RRE's and conducting meaningful performance reviews.
• Work with department planners to prioritize all maintenance work. Fully utilizing Work Process team 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.

• Supervisory or management experience in an industrial or manufacturing setting.
• Experience in leading a department or organization in EH&S, Reliability, Production, Cost and Quality Excellence.
• Experience managing department-level P-N-L budgets and data.
• Experience working with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) such as SAP, MP2, MES.
• Solid understanding and knowledge of optimization equipment and processes.
• Previous experience growing and developing leaders.

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Business, Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical engineering.
• Supervisory experience in Green or dry-end operations, planning, and shipping.
• 5 years supervisory or management experience in an industrial or manufacturing setting.
• Previous lumber or wood products experience.

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