Weyerhauser Company

Production Supervisor- Sawmill

Weyerhauser Company$69K — $128K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • 3+ years supervisory experience in an industrial setting
  • Proven leadership and coaching skills
  • Strong planning, organization, and problem-solving abilities
  • Familiarity with manufacturing principles like housekeeping and labor efficiency
  • Flexibility to work various shifts, including nights and weekends
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Responsibilities

  • Provide daily leadership and oversight for hourly production staff
  • Ensure adherence to job and safety standards
  • Model core values to maintain a positive workplace environment
  • Lead team meetings focusing on safety and performance
  • Balance labor resources for continuous improvement
  • Set and communicate performance expectations aligned with mill goals
  • Assign work tasks and evaluate employee performance

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits plan including medical, dental, and vision
  • Health Savings Account with company contributions
  • Volunteerism and diversity network support
  • Retirement 401k plan with company match and contributions
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation in the first year plus accrued vacation
  • Eleven paid holidays and parental leave for full-time employees
  • Training and development opportunities for career growth
Full Job Description
The Production Supervisor - Sawmill is responsible for direct supervision of a team of hourly employees, including safety, production, and quality goals. The Production Supervisor is committed to continuous improvement in safety, cost management, process improvement, plant scheduling, production flows, staffing and housekeeping. This will be a night shift role.

Key Functions
  • Responsible for providing daily leadership and oversight of hourly production employees to ensure safe and efficient execution of work.
  • Ensure proper job and safety rules are followed
  • Role model our Core Values and People Principles to foster a positive work environment, and ensure open communication among associates
  • Lead safety and other team meetings
  • Project needs and balance labor resources to ensure continuous improvement in safety, quality and production
  • Set performance expectations for team that directly support the mill goals
  • Actively involved in assigning work and evaluating job performance
  • Supports, coaches, and provides timely feedback and direction to employees.
  • Ensure compliance with all applicable Weyerhaeuser, federal, state, and local laws, and regulations


Qualifications
  • High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)
  • Minimum 3 years' supervisory experience in an industrial environment
  • Leadership skills that include a proven ability to coach employees to a higher level of performance
  • Good planning, organizational skills, and problem-solving capabilities
  • Experience in routine manufacturing concepts such as housekeeping, ergonomics and labor efficiency
  • Flexible work hours are necessary to meet the needs of a 24/7 manufacturing environment. Must be willing to work any required shift and on weekends as needed
  • Effective problem-solving techniques and ability to make process improvement recommendations
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal and electronic communication skills
  • Committed to professional ethical standards
  • Demonstrated ability to raise performance by building and maintaining positive relationships with all associates through coaching, development and instilling a continuous improvement mind-set
What We Offer:

Compensation: This role is eligible for our annual merit-increase program, and we are targeting a salary range of $69,396-128,800 based on your level of skills, qualifications and experience. You will also be eligible for our Annual Incentive Program, which offers a cash bonus targeting 5-7% of base pay. Potential plan funding may range from zero to two times that target.

Benefits: When you join our team, you and your dependents will be offered coverage under our comprehensive employee benefits plan, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. We offer a pre-tax Health Savings Account option which includes a company contribution. Other benefit options are also available such as voluntary Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs. We also support personal volunteerism, sponsor a host of diversity networks, promote mentoring, and provide training and development opportunities to help you chart your path to a fulfilling career.

Retirement: Employees are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan, which includes a paid company match in addition to our annual contribution equal to 5% of your base salary.

Paid Time Off or Vacation: We provide eligible employees who are scheduled to work 25 hours or more per week with 3-weeks of paid vacation to use during your first year of employment. In addition, after being employed for six months, eligible employees begin to accrue vacation for future use. We also recognize eleven paid holidays per year, providing a total of 88 holiday hours and paid parental leave for all full-time employees.

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About Weyerhauser Company

Weyerhaeuser Company is a timber, land, and forest products company. It was founded in 1900 by Frederick Weyerhaeuser and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company grows and harvests trees, builds homes, and makes a range of forest products essential to everyday lives. Weyerhaeuser manages its timberlands on a sustainable basis in compliance with internationally recognized forestry standards. The company is also a member of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which promotes environmentally responsible, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests.
Learn more about Weyerhauser Company
Size
9,300 employees
Industry
Net Income
$1 billion
5 Year Trend
-2%
Revenue
$6.5 billion
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