Department Superintendent

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Green-End Production Superintendent for our Lumber Mill in Pineland, TX. This position will manage the sawmill and log yard operations. 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, and cost.

• Facilitate the development and growth of a large team, regularly reviewing, creating, conducting, and managing performance. Your team will be comprised of up to 4 direct reports and 50 indirect reports, in both salaried and hourly roles.
• Be responsible for uptime performance, recovery, quality, departmental cost and other KPI’s to show year-over-year improvement.
• Plan and direct production activities and establish 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.
• Analyze 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.
• Compile, store, and retrieve production data integrity.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills, coordinating and managing talent development of team members, creating RRE’s and conducting meaningful performance reviews.
• Be responsible for gatekeeping and prioritization of all maintenance work, fully utilizing the Work Process team to ensure adequate job plans, scheduling work, and promoting effective preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Build employee commitment and ownership, holding employees and leaders accountable for work and career development.
• Drive safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively identify hazards and implement appropriate mitigating strategies based on the risk involved.

• 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, Active Plant.
• Solid understanding and knowledge of optimization equipment and processes.

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical engineering.
• Supervisory experience in Green or dry‑end operations, planning, and shipping.

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