Supervisor, Quality Control

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

**What You’ll Do**: The Supervisor, Quality Control is responsible for delivering operational results that support the Company’s safety, sustainability, production, and financial goals. You will be responsible for all aspects of the production quality within the mill including but not limited to; inbound log audits, sawmill practices, lumber grading and package audits. Working closely with Production Coordinators, Sales and internal customers, the Supervisor is an integral part of the Manufacturing process and key to ensuring Western delivers consistent quality products in the most cost effective and efficient manner.

**Work Environment**: This role is to be performed in person at our Chemainus Sawmill, in Chemainus, 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.

**Leadership**
- Provide leadership and direction to improve safety, reduce operational costs, enhance product value, and maximize margins while promoting Westerns core values;
- Create and sustain a culture of accountability and continuous improvement;
- Maintain Western’s reputation by managing product quality issues, maximizing value and consistent quality in our products, engaging support from senior leadership as required;
- Conducts training to hourly employees on manufacturing quality objectives, with ultimate goal of ensuring understanding of how meeting quality specifications impacts the business; and
- Provide relief supervision as required.

**Operations**
- Works closely with the Sales team and external customers to meet customer grade and quality expectations, as well as assess and develop mutually beneficial process changes;
- Ensures that the correct manufacturing quality specifications are being followed in order to satisfy the needs of the intended customer;
- Responsible for auditing manufacturing product quality, providing feedback and coaching for improvement and communicating the changes to hourly staff, so that quality specifications are being met; and
- Stay abreast of industry innovations and trends in manufacturing practices to improve company margins.
- General oversite of dryland sort operations, general contractors and road construction as required.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Education and Experience**
- 8-10 years of experience in Lumber Manufacturing or related industry in increasingly responsible roles;
- Post-secondary degree Wood Products Processing or equivalent considered an asset;
- Previous experience or exposure to Quality Control; and
- Extensive knowledge of and experience with coastal lumber and grading.

**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;
- Extensive knowledge and experience with Large Log Breakdown and lumber grading rules and standards;
- Understanding the kiln drying process and the technology of drying high margin lumber products considered an asset.
- Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset;
- Demonstrated strong analytical, problem solving, and logical thinking skills;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to communicate across all levels of the organization; and
- Ability to motivate and engage staff to perform at a higher standard.

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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 th