Western Forest Products Inc. Hiring for Production Administrator at Vancouver, BC Full Time

What You’ll Do: The Production Administrator is responsible for ensuring that all shipments and production allocations are coordinated. Acting as the liaison between the Sales & Marketing team, Manufacturing, Logistics, Finance and external customers, the Production Administrator ensures that required reporting, documentation and records are maintained to the highest standards.

Who You Are: Our ideal candidate brings 2-4 years of experience in a related administration role (lumber industry experience is an asset). You are a relationship-builder and strong communicator who has a collaborative approach when working with various departments and external customers. You have experience managing and coordinating inventory, resolving shipping issues, and maintaining files and records. You are detail-oriented, organized, and know how to keep your finger on the pulse in a high-volume and fast-paced environment.

Work Environment: This role is to be performed in person at our Vancouver office, with all safety protocols in place.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Operations

Responsible for lumber inventory flow through manufacturing sites of raw material and finished products;

Managing activities in our inventory system regarding work orders, production runs, codes, inventory uploads, consumption of inventory and mapping products;

Responsible for inventory coordination, resolving shipping issues and troubleshooting with mills and reman centres to ensure the timely and accurate movement of lumber;

Assisting with order file maintenance;

Providing support to ensure shipments are made in a timely manner – submitting time-sensitive Customs documents and creating shipments;

Assist with shipment releases, monitoring shipping with Sawmills, remanufacturing plants and Logistics to ensure deadlines are met;

Daily and month end reconciliations of inventories.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

Post-secondary degree in business, or related subject;

2 – 4 years of related experience in a related role, preferably in the lumber industry;

An understanding of lumber shipping, lumber calculations and lumber jargon is an asset;

Proficient use of Lumbertrack and Excel considered an asset.

Skills, Knowledge and Required Competencies

Innovative, with a continuous improvement mindset

High attention-to-detail and organizational skills

Intermediate knowledge of MS office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)

Quality business communication skills, both verbal and written

Quality organizational, time management and prioritization skills

Sound problem solving and analytical skills

Excellent internal and external relationship-building skills

YOUR CAREER

At Western Forest Products, we believe our most significant asset is our people. Investing in our people brings value and success to our business, ensuring a safe, engaged, productive and continuously improving workplace. We offer challenging opportunities working alongside the best in the industry to meet your career and professional development goals while providing competitive total rewards and recognition.

We provide a variety of on-the-job training and continuing education in many areas at Western to ensure you have the skills you need to succeed. Our promote-from-within culture recognizes high performance and we offer diverse career paths across the organization for those with the talent and will to advance.

Our total rewards offering including competitive pay, performance bonus, pension plan, benefits and other programs designed to support our employees.

WESTERN OVERVIEW

Western Forest Products is a leading forest products company that sustainably manages forests and manufactures high-quality wood products. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia with operations in the coastal region of BC and Washington State, Western meets the needs of customers worldwide with a specialty wood products focus and diverse product offering.

Our commitment to health and safety, environmental stewardship and community engagement is core to how we do business at Western Forest Products.

Our approach to responsible business practices in all aspects of our business is multi-faceted. We adhere to and employ the most stringent environmental practices in the world. The steps we take to ensure the forests in which we operate are renewed and remain healthy and viable for future generations are mirrored in the care we take to make certain our communities continue to grow and prosper. This includes investing in communities where we operate and continuing to forge mutually beneficial relationships with First Nations in respect of their local and cultural interests.