Production Supervisor - West Sweetwater; Gypsum

Position: Production Supervisor - West Sweetwater (Gypsum)
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 Supervisor for our Sweetwater, TX facility. Production Leaders lead a team to ensure a safe and injury/incident-free environment in our fast-paced plant. Production Team Leaders motivate, coach, and inspire by demonstrating, promoting, and applying Georgia-Pacific's Principle-Based Management (PBM) in daily actions and decisions to deliver maximum value to the business and our customers.

If you are a driven leader who can operate with a principled entrepreneurial spirit, we would like to learn more about you! 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  And, to learn more about our gypsum products, visit

Our Team

The Sweetwater Plant is part of the Gypsum Wallboard products manufacturing operation. We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

Georgia-Pacific has invested in a new $285 million state-of-the-art gypsum mill in Sweetwater, TX. This location combined with the existing plant provides more than 1 billion square feet of gypsum products each year! This is an exciting opportunity to work in a technologically advanced facility in a world-class Market-Based Management culture.

What You Will Do

* Collaborating with Safety, Environmental, Maintenance, Operations, Controller, and Quality Leaders to elevate a team to its full potential.

* Embracing and managing change to drive innovation and process improvements.

* Applying PBM to foster a culture where employees are empowered.

* Facilitating team and employee development, problem-solving and resolution, building employee commitment and ownership, and holding employees accountable.

* Taking accountability for safety, quality, and efficiency through leadership, individual ownership and accountability, teamwork, and delegation.

* Coaching, motivating, and mentoring the team to drive safe and efficient behaviors leading to positive outcomes.

* Take ownership of training, and document training trackers and check sheets.

* Taking corrective action measures as needed using critical & economic thinking, challenge processes, and team collaboration to resolve issues and drive innovation, efficiency, and safety excellence.

* Completing paperwork and reports with accuracy to meet deadlines.

* Leveraging strong oral and written communication skills to communicate with the facility team, leadership, and corporate associates in Atlanta.

* Using organization and planning skills to execute tasks in a timely, purposeful, and orderly fashion.

* Using critical thinking, processes, and collaboration to troubleshoot equipment and machinery.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Requirements:

* A minimum of Four (4) years of supervisory experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment, or four (4) years of experience in the Gypsum industry or an associate degree or higher with two (2) year of experience in manufacturing/industrial environment.

* Able to work a shift schedule subject to change during employment based on business needs.

* A minimum of Four (4) years of experience coaching, counseling, and developing employees.

* A minimum of one (1) year of experience using a computer for record-keeping, documentation, and reporting, including experience with Microsoft Word and Excel.

What Will Put You Ahead

* Bachelor's Degree or higher in a technical or business discipline

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 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.

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