Kiln Supervisor - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Georgia-Pacific LLC

Description

What You Will Do

• Leading employees to work injury-free/incident free in a manufacturing environment consistent with MBM management philosophy and framework
• Ensure safety excellence through leading by example, promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively identify hazards and implementing the appropriate mitigating strategies based on the risk involved
• Develop culture of hazard recognition, policy adherence and risk elimination around moped interaction at kilns
• Lead and train hourly employees to have an understanding of the expectations and ownership of MOPED safety
• Support plant wide MOPED team activities
• Using KCA's as a teaching tool as well as opportunities to check for understanding
• Completing KCA's plant wide
• Be a resource for safety manager for learning events and safety reviews with plant wide leadership experience
• Be a leader of small group discussion and knowledge gathering
• Being a leader for quality plant wide
• Implement controls to improve stack quality to reduce waste, improve drying consistency and reduce risk associated with loose boards
• Develop and facilitate assigned hourly resources who work on a daily 12-hour, 3 shift rotation
• Maintain moisture levels to maximize grade yield and profitability
• Develop and implement effective control of drying to minimize drying related defects
• Work closely with the process engineer and departmental supervisors to manage a total quality process through the plant
• Supporting planer uptime by keeping the right product on the planer infeed and zero planer downtime due to out of wood
• Work with Sales and Planer to develop and meet production schedules for orders
• Developing effective plans for advancement of the kiln team members
• Build Bench strength to back up other production supervisors and department superintendent
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Five years or more of experience as a Supervisor/leader in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience communicating (written and verbal) at all levels of the organization.
• Experience with budget and accounting fundamentals.
• Experience with MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.
• Able to work nights, weekends, overtime and holidays as needed.
• Previous kiln experience in CDK or drying of Pine lumber.
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Seven or more years of experience as a supervisor in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Previous wood products experience.