Production Superintendent

Your Job

Do you aspire to leverage and further develop your skills and lead a team to excellence in safety, efficiency, and quality? If so, this could be the opportunity for you Georgia Pacific is seeking a Production Superintendent in Lovell, WY. The Production Superintendent will lead a team to incident-free performance in a continuous manufacturing environment; consistent with our PBM® management philosophy and framework. If you are a driven leader who can operate with a principled entrepreneurial spirit, then we'd like to learn more about you

Our Team

Our Lovell facility has a rich history producing gypsum wallboard for a wide variety of customers. Georgia-Pacific's Building Products business is consistently among the nation's top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com . And, to learn more about our gypsum products, visit www.gpgypsum.com.

What You Will Do

• Create an environment where the team achieves Zero incidents in Environmental, Health and Safety.
• Lead and foster a safety culture that values risk identification and personal ownership, through a principle-based approach.
• Create an environment where the team participates in risk reduction.
• Develop process and systems which allow the shift leaders to succeed.
• Lead, mentor, supervise, coach, and develop hourly and salaried employees utilizing our PBM Values and Operations Excellence tools to improve capability and performance.
• Ensure that individual roles, responsibilities, and expectations (RR&E's) are aligned with plant and organizational goals to assure maximizing real long-term value for the company.
• Hold team and individuals accountable for operating strategies.
• Create an environment that promotes transferring knowledge to team members.
• Lead development and implementation of Performance, Skills and Qualifications capability.
• Assist with onboarding of new hourly employees for the department.
• Interface with Maintenance and other Team Members, to identify and address performance gaps.
• Collaborate with Production Supervisors and Business Capabilities to assure operator/technician performance gaps are identified and addressed.
• Manage hourly staff scheduling exceptions.
• Seek to resolve personnel issues in a union environment.
• Challenge the status quo to facilitate continuous improvement.
• Leveraging strong oral and written communication skills to communicate with the facility team, leadership, and our corporate team.
• Willing and able to work various shifts as needed - days, nights, weekends, holidays, and be available on call.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• High school diploma or GED.
• Knowledge of Root Cause Analysis techniques.
• Previous experience in a continuous process manufacturing environment.
• Experience with financial analysis/economic thinking around plant production costs.
• Experience with reliability concepts (ex. asset strategies).
• At least three years of experience in a supervisory role with multiple direct reports.
• Experience with promoting and leading a safe working environment and leading safety.
• Previous experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field.
• At least five years of leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment (to include coaching, developing, and providing performance reviews).
• Experience enforcing safe work practices, including: Lock Out/Tag Out, forklift safety, machine guarding, hazardous materials, etc.
• Experience with statistical analysis.
• Experience in union relations.
• Experience with Ownership Based Work Systems.
• Five or more years of gypsum wallboard experience.

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 here .

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of building products, bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet the 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.

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