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Georgia-Pacific is seeking an innovative and results-driven Maintenance Manager to lead our maintenance team at the Prosperity, South Carolina plywood manufacturing facility. This role is critical to advancing reliability, asset performance, and continuous improvement within a safety-focused, batch manufacturing environment aligned with our Principle-Based Management (PBM®) philosophy.
The Maintenance Manager will provide strategic leadership to optimize safety, compliance, reliability, quality, production, and cost performance. The successful candidate will drive reliability-centered maintenance practices, strengthen equipment health, improve planning and execution, and lead the maintenance team in delivering operational excellence.
What You Will Do
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Lead as a safety steward and culture champion: prioritize employee health and safety in all processes and decisions while driving a positive, reliability-focused culture that maximizes engagement, ownership of equipment condition, and alignment with our organizational philosophy to achieve business objectives.
- Develop and lead a diverse hourly workforce: motivate and grow team members through continuous-improvement practices and collaborative leadership, leveraging varied backgrounds and expertise to increase engagement, accountability, and operational performance.
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of equipment used in manufacturing and ensure disciplined execution of preventive, predictive, and precision maintenance to improve reliability.
- Manage workforce schedules to promote efficiency, improve maintenance effectiveness, and maximize the reliability value of all maintenance hours.
- Participate in daily planning and scheduling meetings to support work order prioritization and proactively identify, plan, and execute reliability-improving work.
- Own and optimize the site's maintenance strategy, including preventive, predictive, and precision maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.
- Lead root cause analysis and failure elimination efforts to address chronic losses and improve asset performance.
- Ensure discipline in CMMS utilization, including work order quality, backlog management, and PM compliance.
- Partner with operations leadership to improve equipment uptime, throughput, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
- Lead planning and execution of major maintenance outages, rebuilds, and reliability-driven capital improvements.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
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Minimum of 3 years of supervisory experience in maintenance.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel and the ability to learn production and maintenance reporting applications.
- Proven track record in predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance improvement initiatives that improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
- Ability to drive a reliability culture and ensure all assets remain in a precision state and support long-term operational performance.
- Strong analytical skills, root cause problem-solving capability, and troubleshooting expertise, including hydraulic systems.
- Strong oral and written communication skills that build teamwork and drive results.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Associate's degree in engineering, industrial management, or a related field; applicable military experience is also considered.
- Certification as a Maintenance Reliability Professional.
- Experience in manufacturing wood products or similar industrial environments.
- Experience in manufacturing methods, continuous improvement processes, and reliability-focused maintenance systems.
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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.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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 ).
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