Shipping Supervisor - Gypsum - Sweetwater

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Shipping Supervisor for our gypsum production and reload facility in Sweetwater, Texas. This role will workday shift and will be responsible for supervising the shipping department consistent with Georgia-Pacific's management philosophy and framework.

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

We create a work environment that attracts, engages, and retains the best people. Our employees help others, and the business reaches their full potential, promoting our Principle-Based Management culture to the work they do every day. Our technology is state of the art, and we will bring the best team together to deliver for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Sweetwater community.

• Develop direct reports through effective communication and performance evaluations.
• Motivate and encourage team to positively contribute in their roles to capture long-term value for facility.
• Ensure the team operates effectively and efficiently compared to benchmarks and milestones.
• Drive safety excellence through reporting of safety observations/incidents, personnel involvement, accountability, proactively identifying hazards, and implementing appropriate mitigating strategies.
• Communicate with Shipping Manager, Operations, Sales, carriers, and contractors regarding inventory system and adjustments.
• Support implementation of new systems into the workflow, involving Safety, Quality, and Operations to align strategies.
• Streamline shift inventory counts, production, preloads, warehouse.
• Improve efficiency of reliability, being the POC with maintenance to resolve any maintenance and forklift issues and communicating with other departments to ensure smooth workflow.
• Assist with monthly inventory audit.
• Own the rework process for board and ensure timely disposition and removal as needed.
• Monitor and enforce compliance with shipping best practices and SOPs.
• Lead efforts and coordinate with production on condensing/opening bays.
• Maintain a clean and organized shipping area and ensure all shipping equipment is properly maintained and in good working order.
• Track and report on shipping metrics and performance, following up on development of strategies to improve shipping efficiency and reduce costs.
• Partner with preload service/contractors to uphold safety and efficiency standards.
• Monitor shipping supplies inventory, order supplies, and manage vendor relationships to prevent shortages while controlling costs.

• Two (2) to three (3) years of leadership experience in Manufacturing or Military.
• Experience using Microsoft Office programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Word).
• Availability to work on-call, overtime, and weekend hours as required.

• Three (3) or more years of leadership experience in the gypsum industry
• Five (5) or more years of warehouse experience
• Experience with SAP

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Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of building products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose and related chemicals. The company employs more than 30,000 people at approximately 300 locations in North and South America. Georgia-Pacific creates long-term value by using resources efficiently to provide innovative products and solutions that meet the needs of customers and society, while operating in a manner that is environmentally and socially responsible and economically sound.

Georgia-Pacific is an independently managed and operated company of Koch Industries, Inc., a private company headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.

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.

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• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

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