Sawmill Operations Superintendent
New Brunswick, Canada (multiple locations)
This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who thrives in fast-paced manufacturing environments and enjoys balancing people leadership, operational excellence, production optimization, reliability, and continuous improvement. As the Operations Superintendent, you will provide leadership across a complex lumber manufacturing operation, including Sawmill Operations, Kilns, Planer Mill, and Shipping.
You will play a critical role in ensuring safe, stable, and efficient operations while helping build a strong culture centered around accountability, teamwork, technical capability, and operational discipline.
This opportunity offers the chance to join a stable operation with a strong reputation, ongoing investment in operations and equipment, and long-term growth potential.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
- Leadership role with broad operational responsibility
- Opportunity to influence culture, performance, and continuous improvement
- Stable operation with long-term investment and growth outlook
- Collaborative leadership environment
- Competitive compensation, bonus, and benefits package
- Relocation support may be available for the right candidate
What You'll Be Responsible For
Lead Operations Across a Fully Integrated Lumber Manufacturing Facility
Operations Leadership
- Provide overall operational leadership across Sawmill Operations, Kilns, Planer Mill, and Shipping.
- Support safe, efficient, and reliable production from log intake through finished lumber.
- Drive production performance, lumber recovery, throughput, product quality, and operational efficiency.
- Lead daily troubleshooting and problem-solving activities with operations teams.
- Identify and address production bottlenecks, equipment constraints, process inefficiencies, and quality issues.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, recovery, reliability, waste reduction, and operational performance.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead and support Operations Team Leaders and production teams across multiple operating departments.
- Foster a positive, team-oriented culture built on communication, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Coach and mentor supervisors and operators to strengthen technical capability and leadership depth.
- Support succession planning and employee development initiatives.
- Promote strong safety performance and operational discipline throughout the facility.
- Assist with employee relations and performance management within a unionized environment.
Reliability & Continuous Improvement
- Collaborate closely with Maintenance, Reliability, and Technical teams to improve equipment uptime and production reliability.
- Support planned outages, preventative maintenance programs, and major maintenance activities.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions to eliminate chronic operational issues.
- Partner with technical teams to optimize sawmill processes, improve lumber recovery, and maximize product quality.
- Support implementation of new operating strategies, technologies, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Safety, Environmental & Quality
- Lead by example in driving a zero-incident safety culture.
- Ensure compliance with environmental regulations, forestry standards, and company policies.
- Promote responsible stewardship of resources while minimizing waste and maximizing fibre utilization.
- Maintain high product quality standards and support quality assurance processes and customer specifications.
What We're Looking For
To be successful in this position, you will possess the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or post-secondary education in Engineering, Forestry, Wood Products, Industrial Technology, or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience within industrial manufacturing.
- Experience in sawmill, lumber, wood products, forestry, or other heavy industrial manufacturing is considered a strong asset.
- Strong operational troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
- Proven ability to lead teams in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Continuous improvement mindset with strong communication and leadership skills.
- Passion for developing people and building high-performing operational teams.
This search is being conducted on a confidential basis.
Green Humanity Recruitment is committed to providing a confidential, inclusive, and respectful recruitment process. We thank all applicants for their interest and time; however, only candidates selected for the next stage of the process will be contacted.
