Team Leader

Georgia Pacific; Gladys (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific in Gladys, VA, seeks a Production Supervisor (Team Leader) for its OSB mill to lead a production team safely in a continuous manufacturing environment and ensure product quality. You will coach individuals, develop strong teams, and apply problem-solving skills to maximize production and value.

The role involves guiding a team of 10–15, coordinating diverse shifts, and fostering ownership and accountability across operations while maintaining safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Supervisory experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment including HR, EHS, Quality.
• Strong MS Word and Excel skills for reports and data analysis.
• Proven coaching, counseling, and employee development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a wood products production team to work injury-free in a continuous manufacturing environment.
• Supervise production efforts to improve processes, EHS compliance, variability, reliability, quality, costs.
• Facilitate team development, problem-solving, and ownership through coaching.
• Set roles and expectations for direct reports with feedback and development.
• Drive cultural change so the team runs the facility with ownership.
• Support rotating day/night/weekend/holiday shift schedules and potential changes.
• Work in varied environments and wear required PPE.

Skills

Supervisory experience

MS Word

Excel

Coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, wood science, or related field

Tools

MS Word

Excel

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Production Supervisor (Team Leader) for our OSB mill in Gladys, VA. This position creates value by building capability to lead a production team to work safely in a continuous manufacturing environment. This individual will ensure product quality and contribute to the overall direction and success of the operations team through coaching individuals, developing strong teams, promoting safe work practices, and applying problem solving skills to maximize production.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific located in Gladys, Virginia manufactures Oriented Strand Board (OSB), a popular type of wood product used for flooring, walls, and roof sheathing in mostly residential construction applications. Georgia-Pacific's building product business has consistently been among the nation's top suppliers of building products to building materials dealers and large warehouse retailers. Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace

What You Will Do

• Lead a wood products production team to work injury-free/incident free in a continuous manufacturing environment - consistent with our PBM management philosophy and framework.
• Supervise/coordinate production efforts that result in long term improvement in work processes - including, but not limited to: Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) compliance, variability reduction, reliability, quality, production, and costs.
• Facilitate team development and communication, employee skill development, problem-solving and resolution, and build employee commitment and ownership.
• Establish roles, responsibilities, and expectations for direct reports with appropriate coaching, feedback, and development, to achieve results.
• Drive cultural change in which employees take ownership for running the facility (Team size may range from 10 - 15 members)
• Support a variety of shift schedules such as rotating day / night / weekends / holidays, with the understanding that shift schedules can change during employment
• Work in a variety of environments such as, but not limited to: confined spaces, high spaces, hot/cold/humid/noisy
• Wear the necessary Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) - hard hat, safety glasses, face shield, chemical suit, respirator, ear plugs, hearing protection, steel-toe boots / shoes, and other PPE required for specific jobs. Also must be able to work without wearing jewelry

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Supervisory experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment that includes a strong understanding of not only production, but also day to day operations including, but not limited to the following: HR, EHS, Quality
• Must have a solid working knowledge of MS Word (creating, editing, formatting documents, preparing reports and tables) and Excel (creating, modifying spreadsheets, using functions, filters, and graphs to analyze data).
• Demonstrated experience coaching, counseling , and developing employees

What Will Put You Ahead

• OSB or Wood Products knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of advanced reliability skills - thermography, vibration analysis, lubrication
• 3 or more years' experience in supervisory role in industrial manufacturing
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, wood science, or related field

For this role, we anticipate paying $80,000 - $95,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

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 families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and 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 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).

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