Department Superintendent

Georgia-Pacific Department Superintendent – Lumber Mill

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Department Superintendent for our Lumber Mill in Warrenton, GA. The role will manage the kilns, planer mill, and shipping operations and lead a wood products production team to work injury‑free in a batch manufacturing environment using PBM®.

• Facilitate development and growth of a large team, reviewing, creating, conducting, and managing performance. Team includes up to 7 direct reports and 80 indirect reports.
• Drive safety excellence through employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively identify hazards and implement mitigating strategies.
• Maintain uptime performance, recovery, quality, departmental cost, and other KPIs to demonstrate year‑over‑year improvement.
• Plan and direct production activities, establish priorities in line with operational and cost factors.
• Coordinate production activities with procurement, maintenance, and quality control to achieve optimal utilization, recovery, and quality standards.
• Analyze production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity or operational problems.
• Develop and implement operating methods and procedures to eliminate problems and improve uptime and product quality through continuous improvement.
• Consult with engineering on equipment modifications to improve uptime and product quality.
• Lead performance reviews and talent development.
• Partner with maintenance teams to schedule work and promote 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, manufacturing, or military environment.
• Experience leading a department in EH&S, reliability, production, cost and quality excellence.
• Experience managing department‑level budgets and data to foster continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and ability to learn PC‑based production and operations applications.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Industrial, Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical engineering.
• Supervisory experience in dry‑end and/or green‑end lumber operations.
• Experience with multi‑fuel kiln systems.
• Experience with CMMS such as SAP, MP2, Active Plant.

Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, AD&D, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline and may vary by region.

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 for additional information. (For Illinois E‑Verify information , aquí, or tu).