Scaler

Georgia-Pacific; Fordyce (AR); On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement

Paid vacation

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific has an opening for a Scaler in Fordyce, AR, to track incoming products using multiple computer systems to maximize production and maintain quality. The role involves weighing trucks, inspecting loads, and supporting safety processes in a manufacturing setting.

The position offers a standard shift from Monday to Friday with some Saturdays/holidays and may support the Gurdon location; pay is based on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience using a computer, to include typing, sending emails, and using a mouse.
• Working knowledge and experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.

Responsibilities

• Record supplier data, quality data, and truck weights on computerized systems.
• Inspect incoming loads for quality wood specifications and record data.
• Support safety and housekeeping processes.
• Collaborate with logging contractors to address wood quality issues.
• Maintain wood inventory level information.
• Report daily usages and inventories to relevant teams.
• Create reports on wood inventories, deliveries, and wood quality.
• Work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment.

Skills

Typing and basic computer use

MS Word/Excel/Outlook/Teams

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Outlook

Teams

Job description

Georgia-Pacific has an immediate opening for a Scaler in Fordyce, AR. This person will use multiple computer systems to track incoming products to ensure that production is maximized and quality maintained. If you enjoy learning new things and would like the opportunity to work with computers and systems in a manufacturing environment, this is the position for you!
Shift: Monday - Friday 5:00am to approximately 1:00pm CT with occasionally working Saturdays and/or holidays. This role supports the Gurdon location as well.

Pay will be based on experience.

Our Team

The Wood & Fiber Supply organization is key to ensuring that GP's 80+ mills maintain a constant flow of logs.

What You Will Do

• Receive inbound and outbound trucks utilizing a computerized system to record the supplier identification data, quality data, and truck weights
• Inspect incoming loads to ensure quality wood specifications and record the data for each load received at the mill
• Provide support for on-going safety and housekeeping processes
• Work with logging contractors and foresters to assist in correcting wood quality issues
• Maintain wood inventory level information
• Report daily usages and inventories to accounting, wood and fiber supply, and mill personnel
• Create and provide reports related to wood inventories, deliveries, and wood quality
• Perform work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience using a computer, to include typing, sending emails, and using a mouse
• Working knowledge and experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience tracking inventory levels
• Experience in a wood products manufacturing environment
• Experience using scales to weigh trucks
• Experience with wood quality control
• Experience trouble-shooting computer issues
• Experience reading a tape measure
• Customer service and/or sales experience

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail 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 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 in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

Our benefits plan includes -

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• may also include infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• 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.

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 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.