Production Supervisor

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Georgia-Pacific's Cleveland, TN's Corrugated facility is now hiring a Production Supervisor to join our team! This is an exciting time to join our team on 3rd shift (Monday-Friday 11pm - 7am).

This is more than a supervisory role - it's a change leadership opportunity. You'll join a facility that's 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

Join an exciting and dynamic team committed to sustainability, innovation, and excellence. We make significant investments in capital and are dedicated to developing preferred partnerships and delivering best-in-class service.

Cleveland, Tennessee, in the foothills of the southern Appalachians, blends small-city charm with big-city access: a vibrant historic downtown, Lee University, local dining and breweries, and growing healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Outdoor opportunities abound with the Cherokee National Forest and the Ocoee and Hiwassee Rivers nearby. Cleveland is about 30 minutes from Chattanooga and roughly two hours from Atlanta and the Smokies. With an affordable cost of living, solid schools, family-friendly neighborhoods, and strong commuter connections, it's an attractive place for professionals and families seeking balance.

What You Will Do

• Driving safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership and accountability to proactively identify hazards and implement the appropriate mitigating strategies; investigate incidents and participate in resolution of causes
• Providing leadership on the operating floor and striving for compliance in safety, health, environmental, and quality
• Coaching, training, and developing operations personnel in safety, quality, production, and technical and interpersonal communication skills
• Ensuring best practices are being followed for minimization of waste at machine centers
• Addressing key issues and concerns and interacting with employees from other departments to ensure quality, on-time production
• Identifying repairs needed at machine centers and creating work requests for completion
• Tracking continuous improvement opportunities where performance issues are apparent and providing leadership/action plans for gap closure
• Planning, assigning, and directing work for all hourly production employees; appraising performance and providing feedback as needed

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

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

What Will Put You Ahead

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

THIS ROLE IS NOT OPEN TO VISA SPONSORSHIP

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Hiring Philosophy

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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.

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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).