Maintenance Performance Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Performance Leader to support our Mechanical Maintenance Team at our Pulp & Paper Operations facility in Palatka, Florida.

This position reports directly to the Maintenance Leader. The Maintenance Performance Leader will work with leaders from maintenance, operations, and engineering to develop both short-term and long-term maintenance strategies to ensure the safety, reliability and performance of maintenance area equipment while providing leadership, coaching and direction for Mechanical Maintenance Technicians.

Our Team

Georgia Pacific's Palatka Mill is located just south of Jacksonville and west of St. Augustine, FL, the Palatka mill employs about 950 people has six paper machines as well as several converting lines and produces consumer tissue products such as bath tissue and paper towels sold under the Georgia-Pacific brand names of Angel Soft®, Quilted Northern®, Brawny®, and Sparkle®.

What You Will Do

• Responsible for the performance and development of mechanical maintenance team by Demonstrating strong leadership skills and habits of "best practice".
• Managing and development of weekly schedules for mechanical maintenance crafts from planned work provided.
• Managing mechanical maintenance resources and work orders, giving priorities to Safety Work Orders and PM’s.
• Investigating injuries and ensure incident reports and RCA’s are completed with follow through
• Using economic thinking to fill necessary resource gaps.
• Exhibiting strong leadership skills to motivate and develop a team of hourly employees to continuously improve performance of the individual employees and overall business.
• Work other MPL’s to share resources across the mill to support critical work.
• Fostering and developing culture based on our Principle Based Management (PBM®) Philosophy.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• High School Diploma/GED or higher
• Three (3) or more years of mechanical maintenance experience within a manufacturing, industrial or military environment
• Leadership experience with responsibility for direct reports within a manufacturing or military environment
• Experience using Microsoft Office Software such as Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Experience with reliability concepts and implementing precision maintenance techniques to improve equipment reliability

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering
• Experience with systems such as SAP or other CMMS's
• Experience with maintenance workflow systems
• Experience using preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Experience in Capital Budgeting; capital project management; as well as the experience with budgeting for the maintenance department
• Experience as a leader of maintenance or process engineering

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).