Western Forest Products Inc. Hiring for Supervisor, Production Woods at Holberg, BC Full Time

What You’ll Do: The Supervisor, Production (Woods) is responsible for delivering overall production targets through the efficient management of the wood flow process. The Supervisor, Production (Woods) is dedicated to sound business practices and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, resulting in improved safety and environment performance, efficiency, quality, and profitability, as measured by Production Phase metrics.

Who You Are: Our ideal candidate comes with over 5 years of experience in coastal logging. You are confident, a natural solution seeker, and can manage both employees and projects in a professional manner. As an integral member of the Operation, you find joy and pride in ensuring the full cycle wood flow is run in an efficient, safe, and financially sound manner. Willing to train the right candidate for this position.

Work Environment: This position is to be performed in person in Holberg, BC.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Safety and Environmental Performance

Provide leadership in safety and environmental stewardship by demonstrating and ensuring the adherence of Company safety and sustainability processes and procedures.

Financial Performance

Support the establishment and ongoing improvement of production phase metrics;

Control inventory, recommend effective strategies for the financial well-being of the Operation.

Leadership

Provide leadership and direction to improve safety and environmental performance, reduce operational costs, and drive efficiencies with Company hourly employees and contractors;

Supervision of company USW hourly employees and contractors, ensuring safe work performance and the achievement of production goals while following safety, environmental and operational policies, procedures and regulations; and

Hire, train, coach and manage performance of hourly employees and contractors.

Operations

Oversight and coordination of end to end wood flow process to ensure daily production targets are met. This includes:

Safe and efficient yarding plans;

Coordination and optimization of loading of fibre;

Coordination and optimization of hauling activities;

Ensuring Company processing specifications and sorting plans are adhered to and value is maximized;

Responsible for ensuring that operations are conducted within the standards of the Environmental Management System; and

Work in partnership with the General Foreman and other Production Supervisors to ensure efficient fibre flow.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

5 – 7 years of experience in forestry operations in increasingly responsible roles;

High School diploma or higher;

Familiar with USW Collective Agreement;

Working knowledge of high lead and ground base yarding systems;

Skills, Knowledge and Required Competencies

Commitment to Western’s core values of personal safety, sustainable management, and environmental stewardship;

High level of integrity and professionalism;

Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills;

Ability to motivate and engage hourly employees to perform at a higher standard;

Knowledge of logging processes;

Demonstrated strong analytical, problem solving, and logical thinking skills; and

Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset.

LIVE WORK PLAY

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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.