Your Job
Georgia Pacific is seeking a Production Foreman for our Savannah, GA facility The supervisor leads, motivates, and develops our hourly production staff and helps us achieve our production goals safely and efficiently. If you are a driven leader who loves opportunities to create lasting value, we’d like to learn more about you!
Our Team
The Savannah plant offers a team-based environment where members work collaboratively to produce high-quality gypsum products for the building industry. Georgia-Pacific offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for growth. If you are seeking an opportunity where you can use technology, collaboration, and knowledge to create value, we are interested in learning more about you!
What You Will Do
- Embrace and manage change to drive innovation and process improvements.
- Facilitate team and employee development, problem-solving and resolution, build employee commitment and ownership, and hold employees accountable.
- Take accountability of safety quality and efficiency through leadership, individual ownership and accountability, teamwork, and delegation
- Coach, motivate and mentor the team to drive safe and efficient behaviors leading to positive outcomes, taking corrective action measures as needed.
- Use critical & economic thinking, challenge process, and team collaboration to resolve issues and drive innovation, efficiency, and safety excellence.
- Complete paperwork and reports with accuracy to meet deadlines.
- Leverage strong oral and written communication skills to communicate with the facility team and leadership.
- Use organization and planning skills to execute tasks in a timely, purposeful, and orderly fashion.
- Use critical thinking, processes, and collaboration to troubleshoot equipment and machinery.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- 3+ years of direct industrial manufacturing leadership experience.
- Willing and able to work a rotating shift schedule including days, nights, weekends, and holiday work hours (shift schedule is subject to change during employment based on business needs).
- Experience coaching, counseling, and developing employees.
- Experience using a computer for record-keeping, documentation, and reporting, including experience with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience in Gypsum operations.
- Supervisory level experience in the Gypsum Industry.
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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
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.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf
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