What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor position at Koch?
Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Dry End Supervisor to support our Lumber team in Talladega, AL. This position will report to the Dry End Superintendent. The Dry End Supervisor will work with the Planer and other area operations employees to safely support the shared mill-wide production goals.
This role would be used to develop future Superintendents or Operations managers.
What You Will Do
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 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 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 here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Dry End Supervisor to support our Lumber team in Talladega, AL. This position will report to the Dry End Superintendent. The Dry End Supervisor will work with the Planer and other area operations employees to safely support the shared mill-wide production goals.
This role would be used to develop future Superintendents or Operations managers.
What You Will Do
- Leading employees to work injury-free/incident free in a manufacturing environment consistent with MBM® management philosophy and framework
- Ensure 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
- Develop culture of hazard recognition, policy adherence and risk elimination around moped interaction at dry end
- Lead and train hourly employees to have an understanding of the expectations and ownership of MOPED safety
- Support plant wide MOPED team activities
- Using KCA’s as a teaching tool as well as opportunities to check for understanding
- Completing KCA’s plant wide
- Be a resource for safety manager for learning events and safety reviews with plant wide leadership experience
- Be a leader of small group discussion and knowledge gathering
- Being a leader for quality plant wide
- Implement controls to improve stack quality to reduce waste, improve drying consistency and reduce risk associated with loose boards
- Maintain moisture levels to maximize grade yield and profitability
- Develop and implement effective control of drying to minimize drying related defects
- Work closely with the process engineer and departments supervisor 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
- Work with Sales and Planer to develop and meet production schedules for orders
- Developing effective plans for advancement of the dry end team members
- Working with other department supervisors to develop their leadership skills and knowledge, ability to give feedback, reviews, and coaching.
- Plant lead on the HR transformation supporting and training leaders
- Plant lead on operator training systems and keeping it up to date
- Experience as a Supervisor/leader in an industrial or manufacturing environment
- Experience with budget and accounting fundamentals
- Able to work nights, weekends, overtime and holidays as required
- Five or more years of experience as a supervisor in an industrial or manufacturing environment
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 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 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 here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).