Quality Control Technician - Rocky Creek Lumber

Your Job

Our Rocky Creek Lumber facility is seeking a Quality Control Technician.

Starting pay at $25.00 per hour and up based on experience.

The successful candidate that fills this role will be responsible for Monitoring Quality from incoming logs at the scale house through the plant and final product quality leaving the plant on trucks and rail cars.

This is primarily a day shift job Monday - Friday, however alternate hours and days may be required depending on the needs of the Plant and the quality program.

QC tech will report directly to the process engineer.

Our Team

Our Rocky Creek facility produces a variety of products from southern yellow pine, including dimension lumber, squares/timbers up to 6x6.

Georgia-Pacific's building product business has consistently been among the nation's top suppliers of building products to building materials dealers and large warehouse retailers.

Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace.

What You Will Do


* The tech will spend random time at the scale house each day monitoring the quality of logs the scales is sending in the plant.


* Be a safety champion in the plant.


* Work in a loud dusty, hot or cold environment in a lumber manufacturing plant.


* Assist in troubleshooting any quality issues.


* Work with leadership and wood and fiber on implementing a Log roll out program once we have a yard to roll them out.


* Monitor log data from MES and bring any issues to the leadership team.


* Hot shot a percent of loads each week.


* Oversee that all scanners in the mill are kept in standard to provide the best scan possible, as needed by the process engineer.


* Provide field sampling and data acquisition as need by the process engineer.


* Document Sampling Data into Excel and maintain document for GP Audits and Standards


* Oversee the si-cam system to ensure proper operation.


* Monitor stacking quality to ensure compliance with GP lumber standards.


* Assist the Process engineer and Kiln lead on testing and improving drying quality.


* Over see our grading system (Autolog) to ensure proper operations and compliance to standard


* Monitor lumber finish quality and provide feedback to improve.


* Provide trim test data to Process Engineering to ensure proper trim decision.


* Monitor pack quality and labeling in the dry end to meet lumber standards.


* Work with Grading Agency (SPIB) to ensure Rocky Creek's quality meets standards and maximize improvement opportunities.


* Audit Truck and Rail car loading to ensure loads are correct and meet our quality standards.


* Take the lead on completing SPIB and GP standards audits at Rocky Creek


* Go through packs of lumber each day to check quality vs grade, which requires handling and flipping anything from a 2x4x8 up to a 6x6x20.


* Provide feedback and training on quality issues to supervisors and ...