Manager - Quality Assurance

Spi Ind; Redding (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Low-cost health benefits

Employer-paid retirement plan

Paid vacation and 10 holidays

Company-paid Life Insurance

Job summary

Sierra Pacific Industries is seeking a seasoned Quality Assurance Manager to lead QA/QC across 14 sawmill locations in California, Oregon, and Washington. You will inspect materials, audit processes, and coach mill management to improve profitability while ensuring products meet grade specifications and customer satisfaction.

Based from our Anderson, California office, this role emphasizes safety, ongoing training, and collaboration with grading agencies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in lumber quality control; optimizing scanners preferred.
• 2 years’ supervisory experience in wood products or manufacturing.
• Certified grader in Commons, Shop, Select, or all NGR grades.
• Experience with optimization technology preferred.
• Experience working with WWPA Quality Management System (QMS).
• Full understanding of grading association rule book.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a crew.
• Proficient in documentation, workflow, math computation, and computer technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage lumber quality and grade across 14 sawmill locations in CA, OR, WA.
• Collaborate with mill management to improve profitability and meet grade specs for customers.
• Ensure safety practices and promote safety awareness across facilities.
• Train teams on best practices to maximize lumber values, grade, and recovery.
• Audit manufacturing processes, identify nonconformances, and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain strong relationships with Supervisors and Managers across the Company.
• Coordinate with mill management and sales on process improvements and new products.
• Collaborate with inspectors from grading agencies to align standards.
• Identify, communicate, and troubleshoot production, quality, and grade issues.
• Travel frequently to sawmill locations across CA, OR, WA.

Skills

Lumber quality control

Supervisory experience

Certified grader

Optimization technology

WWPA QMS experience

Grading rules knowledge

Leadership ability

Documentation & math/computing

Job description

We train and promote from within

Excellent low-cost health benefits

Retirement plan with employer-paid contributions

Paid vacation and 10 holidays

At Sierra Pacific Industries, we understand our greatest strength is the people who choose to build a career with us. We are a fourth-generation family-owned company that has grown to be one of the largest lumber and millwork producers in the United States. Our more than 6,000 employees are proud to work at our state-of-the-art sawmills and other facilities, including: manufacturing, custom wood-framed windows, fabrication, millwork, veneer, cogeneration, trucking, forestry, and other operations.

Seeking highly experienced Quality Assurance Manager to manage quality assurance and quality control measures at lumber manufacturing locations across California, Oregon, and Washington. This position is responsible for inspecting materials, auditing manufacturing processes, and coaching mill management teams in best practices to improve profitability. Requires honest and ethical conduct, fostering respectful relationships, and ensuring products meet both grade specifications and customer satisfaction. This position is not remote and is based from our main office in Anderson, California.

About the Position

• Manage lumber and grade recovery and optimization programs for 14 sawmill locations across California, Oregon, and Washington
• Work closely with local management teams to improve profitability of mills, and to ensure products meet both grade specification and customer requirements
• Assure safe workplace practices are followed and promote safety awareness through leading by example
• Continually train best practices to maintain and optimize equipment to maximize lumber values, grade, and recovery
• Audit various manufacturing processes to internal specifications. Identify nonconformance, assist with root cause analysis and corrective action
• Maintain strong working relationships with Supervisors and Managers across the Company
• Work closely with mill management and sales teams on process improvements, new product development, and customer feedback issues
• Effectively and collaboratively work with inspectors from grading agencies
• Manage lumber quality and grade to maximize value through lumber graders and optimizing scanners
• Identify, communicate, and troubleshoot production, quality, and grade issues
• This position requires frequent travel to sawmill locations across California, Oregon, and Washington

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in lumber quality control using optimizing scanners preferred
• 2 years’ supervisory experience in wood products or other manufacturing environment
• Certified grader in any of the following categories: Commons, Shop, Select, and all NGR grades
• High degree of knowledge and experience working with optimization technology preferred
• Experience working with WWPA Quality Management System (QMS)
• Full understanding of grading association rule book
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a crew
• Proven commitment to safety and Company policy
• Ability to handle multiple priorities under demanding circumstances
• Proficient in documentation, workflow, math computation, and computer technology

Why Join Our Team?

Because this is more than an invitation, it's a commitment to offer opportunities for personal and professional growth to everyone! We ask people to grow with us and make the company even better.

We provide an excellent benefit package including a full Health Benefits Plan (including medical, dental, and vision) with low-cost premiums, a 401(k) with Company Match, additional Retirement Contributions, and company-paid Life Insurance.

Sierra Pacific is an (EOE) Equal Opportunity Employer, including those with a disability and veterans. The general wage range for this position at Sierra Pacific Industries is from $125,000 and $160,000 per year, and is dependent upon a number of factors, including, but not limited to: relevant work experience, skill, knowledge, and/or education.

About Our Company

Sierra Pacific Industries is a fourth-generation family-owned company based in Northern California that started in 1949 and has grown to be one of the largest lumber and millwork producers in the U.S., employing around 6,500 crew members. Sierra Pacific continues to be a company where its employees are proud to work at state-of-the-art facilities and others strive to become part of the team.

We own and sustainably manage more than 2.4 million acres of timberland in California, Oregon, and Washington. Our forests are sustainably managed under a 100-year plan by Registered Professional Foresters, Wildlife Biologists, Botanists, and other professionals. We are growing forests for our future, planting over 6 million new trees every year. In Spring 2024, we planted our 300 millionth seedling on our timberlands. This milestone was decades in the making, reflecting our commitment to sustainable forest management and ensuring we have forests not just for today, but for generations to come.

Sierra Pacific effectively uses nearly 100% of every piece of wood we bring to our facilities. In fact, any small amount that isn't turned into hand-crafted doors and windows, millwork, lumber, or landscaping material is actually converted into electricity in our eight biomass-fueled power plants.

We are proud that all Sierra Pacific facilities follow our drug-free and tobacco-free policies. As part of our safety in the workplace policy, an offer of employment is subject to a negative drug screen result. We use E-verify to verify the social security number and work authorization of all newly hired employees. Sierra Pacific is an (EOE) Equal Opportunity Employer, including those with a disability and veterans.