Manager - Quality Assurance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits plan

401(k) with company match

Employer-paid life insurance

Paid vacation and 10 holidays

Job summary

Sierra Pacific Industries, a large, family-owned lumber and millwork company based in Northern California, is seeking a seasoned Quality Assurance Manager. This role oversees QA/QC across multiple locations, audits processes, and coaches mill leadership to improve profitability while ensuring products meet grade specs and customer expectations.

The position is not remote and is based from our Anderson, California headquarters.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in lumber quality control, prefer scanners-based optimization.
• 2 years supervisory experience in wood products or manufacturing.
• Certified grader in Commons, Shop, Select, or all NGR grades.
• Familiarity with optimization technology is preferred.
• Experience with WWPA Quality Management System (QMS).
• Understand grading association rule books and how to apply them.

Responsibilities

• Manage lumber quality, grade, and recovery for 14 sawmill locations across CA, OR, WA.
• Coach mill management teams in best practices to improve profitability and meet specs.
• Ensure safe workplace practices and promote safety awareness across sites.
• Train personnel on best practices to maximize lumber value and equipment uptime.
• Audit manufacturing processes, identify nonconformances, and drive corrective actions.
• Collaborate with mill management, sales teams, and inspectors from grading agencies.

Skills

Lumber quality control

Supervisory experience

Leadership

Safety awareness

Education

Certified grader (Commons/Shop/Select/NGR)

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.