Teams at The Lumber Manufactory

Serve as the on-site HR point of contact for the New Albany mill, handling full-cycle onboarding/offboarding, performance reviews, disciplinary actions, employee relations, compliance tracking, local recruiting, and HR systems administration (ADP). Partner with Head of People to implement policies and translate materials in English and Spanish while maintaining regular presence on the production floor.

Lead design, optimization, and continuous improvement of mill material flow and equipment sequencing across sawmill, planer, and engineered wood facilities. Manage process engineering team, execute mill layouts, automation upgrades (scanning, PLCs, MES), time studies, line balancing, kiln-drying integration, and capital projects to maximize recovery, throughput, and efficiency.

Designs and optimizes material flow, equipment layouts, production sequencing, and automation across sawmill and engineered wood facilities. Conducts bottleneck analysis, time studies, OEE analysis, capacity modeling, and lean improvement initiatives. Partners with production, maintenance, and capital projects teams on equipment installations, mill reconfigurations, modernization, commissioning, and documentation. Requires hands-on mill-floor work and extensive wood products manufacturing experience.