Technical Supervisor will help create and implement process including optimization, quality control, and overall process improvement. The position will also participate occasionally as a supervisor in training.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Promote a safe production environment
• Take ownership for maintaining quality standards on all products
• Help calibrate and maintain optimization equipment
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, reduce cost, and maximize value
• Troubleshoot production issues
• Help provide training to production workers and help promote product quality standards among operations
• Communicate any maintenance and production needs effectively and respectively
• Be involved with improving processes and procedures throughout the facility
• Support all phases of the lumber manufacturing process to include set-up, changeover, automation, workflow, yield rates, reliability, and overall efficiency of machine centers
• Serve as a backup supervisor on occasion
• Be willing to work a flexible schedule

Required Competencies:

• Ability to accurately follow instructions
• Strong organizational skills
• Detail and results oriented
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong computer skills with Windows Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Outlook, and Word

Education and Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of lumber manufacturing or 5 years of other industries
• Minimum of 2 years of leadership experience is a plus
• Must have high school, GED, or equivalent
• Post-secondary education preferred
• Lumber grading certification is preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to work in a fast pace industrial environmental
• Must be able to work in both hot and cold temperatures
• Must be able up to lift 50lbs
• Suitable agility and stamina to permit negotiation of stairs, elevated work platforms, ladders and walking on uneven terrain

Mission Forest Products strives to be a great business partner, employer and member of the Corinth, Mississippi community. Located in an area primed to meet increasing lumber demand from residential and commercial growth sectors in the U.S. South and Midwest, and in one of the most abundant timber markets in the nation. Mission Forest Products will leverage its access to major road, rail and river haul routes to become a strategic provider of high-performance, dimensional lumber to retailers, co-ops, treaters, contractor yards and other customers. We are a highly professional organization led and run by industry veterans who have ambitious expectations for the company’s performance. We believe this mindset will establish Mission Forest Products as a consistently reliable and responsible lumber supplier and corporate citizen.