Log Yard Manager

The Baillie Group is a cohesive, unified group of hardwood producers working cooperatively together with each retaining their distinctive and valued cultural identities.

The Baillie Group is one of North America's largest hardwood lumber manufacturers, distributors, and exporters. We are a provider of hardwood logs, hardwood lumber and proprietary grade hardwood lumber products.

Midwest Hardwoods, under Baillie Group management, is searching for a Log Yard Manager in Wisconsin. The Log Yard Manager is responsible for the flow of lumber produced by the onsite sawmill through stacking, kiln-drying, grading, packaging and shipping processes. The role includes ownership over quality control protocols and is accountable to defined metrics. The position reports to the Midwest Hardwoods Plant Manager and is responsible for direct reports including forklift operators, dry kiln and boiler operators, lumber graders, material handlers and a shipping supervisor.

• Supervise and direct, direct reports
• Manage a defined daily scorecard including productivity, uptime and quality assurance metrics
• Contribute to team culture
• Maintain a safe, organized and clean industrial environment
• Alter production and staffing plans with changing upstream sawmill production and/or downstream shipping demand

• At least 3 years of experience managing a team of 10 or more direct reports in an industrial environment
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and responding to unexpected changes in real time
• Physical ability to fulfill an active role standing or moving for full shift periods
• Software skills:
  Microsoft Office Suite

• Exposure to lumber operations and equipment (manufacturing, drying, distribution)
• Hardwood lumber grading certification
• Experience with SAP system