Operations Team Lead

Weyerhaeuser Company; Grayling (MI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Weyerhaeuser Company in Grayling, Michigan is seeking a Team Leader to guide a production team within multiple mill areas, with a long-term focus on safety, housekeeping, quality and cost efficiency.

The role emphasizes developing associates through IDPs and regular performance reviews, ensuring reliable methods and staff training, while meeting production goals and maintaining an injury-free environment.

Qualifications

• Providing training, coaching and accountability to promote an injury free environment.
• Supervises more than one production area of a mill i.e., green end, stranding and debarking.
• Responsible for meeting production goals and for all aspects of supervising production employees on one or more Teams.
• This includes employee development/training, communication, performance reviews and pay rates.
• Typically requires more than five years of mill experience and reports to the Operations Mgr.
• The primary responsibility of this job involves management of people.

Responsibilities

• Provide training and coaching to promote a safe, injury-free environment.
• Supervise multiple mill production areas and teams to meet goals.
• Develop and review team performance, conduct appraisals and manage pay rates.
• Ensure reliable methods and employee development within the team.

Skills

People leadership

Production supervision

Process improvement

Job description

At Weyerhaeuser, our most valued resources aren’t only the trees and timberlands we oversee. Our employees are the real reason we’ve been in business for over 100 years. Their skill and ingenuity have made Weyerhaeuser one of the leaders in timberland management, and manufacturing and distribution of wood products in the world. The Team Leader is accountable and responsible for the leadership and management of a Functional Area as well as responsibility for an Operations Team. The Team Leader will provide a long term focus on continuously improving safety, housekeeping, environmental, quality, productivity and cost process within their areas of responsibility. The Team leader is responsible for the development of associates IDP’s as well as annual performance reviews. The Team Leader is responsible to ensure reliable methods exist and are followed within their team and area of responsibility.

Key Functions

• Providing training, coaching and accountability to promote an injury free environment.
• Supervises more than one production area of a mill i.e., green end, stranding and debarking.
• Responsible for meeting production goals and for all aspects of supervising production employees on one or more Teams.
• This includes employee development/training, communication, performance reviews and pay rates.
• Typically requires more than five years of mill experience and reports to the Operations Mgr.
• The primary responsibility of this job involves management of people.

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