Veneer Lead HandPosition
Type: Permanent/Full-time
Location: Calgary, AB - fully on-site
Compensation: $30-35/hour + overtime + Vacation + Benefits + RRSP
Shift - M-F - 7am - 330pm + overtime available - OT after 40 hours
VENEER LEAD HAND
The Veneer Lead Hand is a working supervisor responsible for leading the daily execution of veneer cutting, layout, and pressing. You will maintain a high personal production output while coordinating the workflow of the team, ensuring quality standards are met, and providing immediate technical guidance to cutters and operators. This role ensures that the "hands-on" work aligns with the production schedule set by the Plant Manager.
1.0 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The Veneer Lead Hand reports directly to the Plant Manager. You act as the primary point of contact for the veneer team, providing frontline direction to cutters, stitchers, and press operators.
2.0 PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Daily Workflow Coordination: Actively participate in production while directing the team’s daily tasks. Ensure that work orders move smoothly from cutting to stitching to the press.
- Technical Mentorship: Provide "on-the-tool" training and coaching for team members. Perform competency checks and assist stitchers and cutters with complex grain matching or difficult flitches.
- Quality Control (First-Off Inspection): Conduct real-time inspections of veneer faces and pressed panels. Ensure grain flow and pattern matching meet shop standards before the team proceeds with large runs.
- Equipment Setup & Troubleshooting: Lead the setup of guillotine cutters, stitchers, and presses. Troubleshoot minor mechanical issues or glue-spread inconsistencies to minimize downtime.
- Material Utilization: Monitor flitch yields and waste. Ensure the team is maximizing material usage and accurately labeling/storing leftover veneer.
- Production Reporting: Keep the Plant Manager informed of progress, material shortages, or any delays that may impact the master schedule.
3.0 SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
- Mastery of Veneer Craft: Expert-level knowledge of species, grading, and matching (book, slip, blueprint).
- Hands-on Leadership: Ability to lead by example, maintaining high individual productivity while overseeing 3–5 other team members.
- Technical Proficiency: Advanced skill in operating and maintaining guillotines, stitchers (Kuper/Fisher), and hot presses.
- Spatial Reasoning: Ability to look at a raw flitch and visualize the most efficient layout for specific work orders.
- Communication: Clear ability to explain technical tasks to junior staff and relay operational needs to management.
4.0 SAFETY
- Floor-Level Compliance: Ensure all team members are using safety guards, PPE, and following lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures during setups.
- Housekeeping Leadership: Maintain an organized department to prevent trips and fire hazards (dust/scrap control).
- Incident Response: Act as the first point of contact for any safety concerns on the floor, reporting immediately to the Plant Manager.
SHIFT:Monday to Friday: 0700 to 1530 (1/2 hour lunch break)
- Overtime: Availability for overtime is required to meet production peaks or finish pressing cycles.
The indicated pay range is a good‑faith estimate based on required qualifications, experience, training, and other factors permitted by law. It reflects the pay band established by the client company. Actual offers may vary depending on skills, experience, geographic location, and expected work quality. Most candidates start in the lower half of the range. Pay history is not considered where prohibited by law. This information serves as a general guideline for compensation discussions.
To support a fair and efficient hiring process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help review applications. Our team carefully reviews all candidates, and AI is used only as a support tool—never as the sole decision-maker.
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Pay: $30.00-$35.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Work Location: In person
