Quarry Supervisor

Georgia-Pacific has an immediate opening for a Quarry Supervisor at our Fort Dodge, IA location. The Quarry Supervisor creates value by leading a team to exceed production and quality goals. This is accomplished through continuous improvement, innovation, positive team building, and collaboration to exceed short and long-term goals. If your passion is developing and leading a team to attain the highest standards in safety, compliance, and process excellence, we are interested in learning more about you!

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's building product business is consistently amongst the nation's top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers. Our employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury-free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit http://www.buildgp.com/.

What You Will Do

• Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving, and enforcing safety policies on site.
• Provide hands on leadership to the hourly workforce and management of all daily operations including sub-contractors in the effort of targeting production goals and striving for continuous improvement and safe and efficient manner.
• Implement a positive and safe learning culture including communication, training, and improvements.
• Use of systems like Ariba, MP2 for parts/vendors/contractor work as well as MDM for parts creation and Apex for setting up vendors.
• Assist in implementing the long- and short-term mining plan. Participate in the planning process as necessary and provide input to the Quarry Manager and supporting capabilities.
• Be involved in scheduling, employee cross-training and facilitate MSHA visits.
• Manage day to day quarry operation including stripping overburden, dump management, road maintenance, rock extraction using surface miner and use of hydraulic hammer.
• Conduct daily site evaluations of operating areas to ensure grounds are safe for operations and water management.
• Perform daily review of environmental compliance and stewardship of operation along with Quarry Manager. Ensure that any incidents are reported, and corrective actions are taken.
• Be a key communicator between operations and management.
• Be active in helping control quarry costs to meet budgetary constraints.
• Help ensure rock quality meets plant's needs.
• Be involved in performance reviews for Hourly EE's, engaging in coaching and providing feedback.
• Review daily inspection sheets to ensure reports are accurate and complete .

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• High School Diploma (or equivalent degree) and five (5) years of surface mining operations experience.
• Five (5) years of experience operating Heavy Mobile Equipment in a surface mining operations environment.
• One (1) year leadership experience with direct reports.
• Currently have, or able to obtain a Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) Instructor Card
Knowledge of Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) regulations and policies.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Building Products manufacturing experience.
• Experience applying lean manufacturing techniques.
• Experience in drill and blast activities.
• Experience with slot dozing, truck/loader operations.
Experience improving manufacturing, mining, safety, maintenance, and cost effectiveness.

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.

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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf

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