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Production Superintendent- Plywood
KochTaylorsville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jun 2026
About the role
Location(s)
Taylorsville, Mississippi
Company
Georgia-Pacific
Career Field
Operations & Manufacturing
Job Number
189031
Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Department Superintendent in our plywood mill in Taylorsville, MS. This role will be responsible for leading a wood products production department to work injury-free/incident free in a continuous manufacturing environment, consistent with Georgia-Pacific's management philosophy and framework. The Department Superintendent will also be responsible for supporting an approach to optimize the constraining process and machine centers.
What You Will Do
- Facilitating team development and growth through effective communication and performance evaluations.
- Prioritizing work orders to address machine center functionality and optimize on equipment availability.
- Ensuring areas operate effectively and efficiently; meeting or exceeding benchmark & milestones.
- Utilizing work processes to effectively manage and facilitate good asset health through PM & PDM.
- Building employee commitment and ownership, and holding personnel accountable to meet those expectations.
- Facilitating team developmental growth by reviewing and evaluating personnel performance.
- Motivating and encouraging team to positively contribute in their roles to capture long-term value for facility.
- Driving safety excellence through personnel involvement, ownership & accountability.
- Proactively identifying hazards and implementing appropriate mitigating strategies to improve safety capacity.
- Facilitating resolution to complex or chronic issues preventing equipment design.
- Owning data entry and accuracy compiled to create departmental reports.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Supervisory or management experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing facility or a related industrial/operations environment.
- Experience in analyzing data to identify and eliminate waste, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Proficient in MS Word, Excel, and other PC-based operations and maintenance software.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Five (5) or more years of supervisory or management experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing facility
- Bachelor's Degree
- Experience working with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) - SAP, MP2, ActivePlant.
- Continuous improvement, experience and/or education.
- Knowledge of equipment servicing, planning/scheduling, supply chain management, mechanical mai
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