Production Supervisor

Georgia Pacific; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Paid vacation

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific's Kansas City facility is seeking a third-shift Corrugator Supervisor to lead a dynamic, safety-focused team on the 11:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m. shift.

This leadership role emphasizes coaching and developing workers while driving continuous improvement in a unionized corrugated packaging environment. The candidate will guide safety, quality, and production on the floor, ensuring high standards and timely output across converting and corrugator operations.

Qualifications

• Supervisory or leadership experience in manufacturing.
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States without visa sponsorship.
• Experience in corrugated industry or unionized environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive safety excellence by promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability; identify hazards and implement mitigation strategies; investigate incidents and identify root causes.
• Provide leadership on the operating floor and promote compliance with safety, health, environmental, and quality requirements.
• Coach, train, and develop operations personnel in safety, quality, production, technical skills, and interpersonal communication.
• Ensure best practices are followed to minimize waste at machine centers.
• Address key issues and collaborate with employees from other departments to ensure high-quality, on-time production.
• Identify repairs needed at machine centers and create work requests for completion.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and provide leadership and action plans to close gaps.
• Plan, assign, and direct work for all hourly production employees; evaluate performance and provide feedback.

Skills

Leadership experience

US work authorization

Tools

KIWI application

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Kansas City, Missouri, facility is now hiring a third-shift Corrugator Supervisor to join our team! This is an exciting opportunity to join our third-shift team (Monday-Friday, 11:00 p.m.-7:00 a.m.).

This is more than a supervisory role -it's a change leadership opportunity. You'll join a facility that has already made significant strides in improvement and is positioned for continued investment and transformation. We're looking for a hands-on leader who thrives in a dynamic, team-centered environment -someone with grit, resilience, and the ability to coach, develop, and inspire both seasoned professionals and newer team members. This role is one of the most important and impactful in our company. Your leadership will directly influence how we achieve our goals and create long-term value. If you're driven to help a team win and grow your career in the process, we want to invest in you.

Our Team

You already know us! Georgia-Pacific is one of the nation's leading corrugated box manufacturers. The Kansas City team specializes in manufacturing corrugated containers for virtually any product using both converting and corrugator assets. This position provides opportunities for advancement in Kansas City and at many other Georgia-Pacific and Koch facilities across the country.

Come join our team! To learn more about this facility and our Packaging division, please visit: www.gppackaging.com

Check out these videos and links to learn more about Georgia-Pacific's Corrugated Packaging business:

Georgia-Pacific: How Corrugated Boxes Are Made

Georgia-Pacific: Corrugated

www.gppackaging.com

What You Will Do

• Drive safety excellence by promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability; proactively identify hazards and implement appropriate mitigation strategies; investigate incidents and participate in identifying and resolving root causes
• Provide leadership on the operating floor and promote compliance with safety, health, environmental, and quality requirements
• Coach, train, and develop operations personnel in safety, quality, production, technical skills, and interpersonal communication
• Ensure best practices are followed to minimize waste at machine centers
• Address key issues and concerns and collaborate with employees from other departments to ensure high-quality, on-time production
• Identify repairs needed at machine centers and create work requests for completion
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities when performance issues are apparent and provide leadership and action plans to close gaps
• Plan, assign, and direct work for all hourly production employees; evaluate performance and provide feedback as needed

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Supervisory or leadership experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

• Corrugated industry experience
• Experience working in a unionized environment
• Experience working with the KIWI application
• Experience with food-grade (BRC) standards and compliance

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value, and are rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate based on available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided, depending on each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak with your recruiter about the flexibility and details of our compensation philosophy.

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

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products, and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet the evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees across over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day- to make everyday products even better.

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 family to live fulfilling, healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength, focusing on overall well-being so you can focus on what matters most.

• Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, and vision coverage;
• flexible spending and health savings accounts;
• life insurance;
• accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance;
• disability coverage;
• retirement benefits;
• paid vacation and time off;
• educational assistance;
• and, where applicable, infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline, and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions about which benefits apply to you, please speak with your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).