Job Description Summary: The Planer Technician serves as the work center owner and primary operator for Timberlab’s planning operations. This position is expected to personally operate, set up, troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain planning and sizing equipment while developing operating standards and training operators. The Technician owns equipment performance, dimensional quality, surface finish quality, tooling management, uptime, throughput, and continuous improvement within the work center. Job Description: Responsibilities Act as the primary operator of critical production equipment Operate and maintain planers, sizing equipment, material handling systems, and associated production equipment. Monitor dimensional accuracy, surface finish quality, throughput, and equipment performance. Perform planer knife changes, cutter head setup, and machine adjustments required to maintain product specifications. Act as the primary operator of critical production equipment during startup, commissioning, ramp-up, and early production operations. Inspect planer knives and tooling for wear, damage, and performance degradation. Perform planer knife grinding, sharpening, balancing, and maintenance activities in accordance with manufacturer recommendations and Timberlab standards. Manage knife inventory, replacement schedules, and tooling change records to ensure continuous production readiness. Establish and maintain tooling standards to optimize surface quality, dimensional consistency, equipment uptime, and production efficiency. Troubleshoot planer-related quality issues, including dimensional variation, surface finish defects, tear-out, adhesive bonding issues, and tooling performance concerns. Lead machine setup, startups, shutdowns, changeovers, and production troubleshooting activities. Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, startup procedures, work instructions, and best practices. Train, coach, and mentor Machine Operators assigned to the work center. Monitor production performance, downtime, quality, recovery, and throughput metrics and implement corrective actions. Coordinate with Production, Quality, Maintenance, and Engineering teams to improve equipment performance and process reliability. Perform routine inspections, preventative maintenance activities, and equipment condition assessments. Maintain accurate production, downtime, quality, and maintenance records. Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, productivity, and waste reduction. Ensure compliance with all safety procedures, including LOTO, machine guarding, and PPE requirements. Cross-train across Finger Jointing, Planing, RF Press Operations, and other production work centers to support operational coverage. Perform other duties as assigned. Qualifications Minimum 2 years of manufacturing, lumber, wood products, engineered wood products, or industrial production experience. Demonstrated experience operating, setting up, and troubleshooting industrial manufacturing equipment. Experience operating planers, sizing equipment, including planer setup, knife changes, tooling maintenance, and production troubleshooting. Experience performing planer knife grinding, sharpening, balancing, and cutter head maintenance. Strong mechanical aptitude and advanced problem-solving skills. Ability to lead, train, and support machine operators. Ability to read and interpret technical documents, work instructions, and production specifications. Strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. Ability to work flexible schedules, overtime, and shift work as required. Timberlab makes projects simple. We are experts in full-service mass timber project delivery stemming from our deep roots as a general contractor. With a holistic view of building construction, we understand how to integrate mass timber into a commercial building, carefully coordinating the timber structural system with the other building systems. As a 100% employee-owned organization and member of the Swinerton Family of Companies, we hire the best people, give them exceptional training, and provide robust opportunities for professional growth. Timberlab values and recognizes our employees as the essential ingredient to our lasting success. We strive for a positive work environment that encourages outstanding performance while making room for fun. We also believe that happy, healthy employees lead to a highly productive company, and we are proud to offer a robust benefits package to support individual and collective success. https://www.timberlab.com Timberlab is an Equal Employment Opportunity, Minority, Women, Disability, and Veteran Employer. Our Company is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We have a commitment to provide equal hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, layoff, and recall benefits to all individuals without regard to gender, race, color, religion, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital or domestic partner status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal or state laws or local ordinance or regulation. We are committed to the safety and security of everyone interested in our company–including those who visit us online. Please note that Timberlab will only invite you to submit work history and personal information related to employment through our career portal WorkDay (which requires the set-up of a login), and communication will only come from individuals with an email address ending in @timberlab.com or @swinerton.com.

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