Your Job
Start a new career with Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's leading manufacturers of Building Products and Consumer Products. We are hiring a Maintenance Planner at our Oriented Strand Board (OSB) facility located in Fordyce, AR.
The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability and minimize downtime. This role partners with production, maintenance, and contractor teams to manage work orders, secure necessary parts and resources, and support preventive and predictive maintenance programs that improve overall plant performance.
The shift for this position is a Day Shift position, Monday-Friday, with typical working hours from 6:00am-3:00pm CST. This includes, but is not limited to overtime, holidays, and weekends scheduled as needed.
Our Team
Our Georgia Pacific facility in Fordyce, AR manufactures Oriented Strand Board (OSB), compressed strands of wood chips that are bound together by adhesives which prevent moisture intrusion. This type of OSB is used for floor, wall, and roof sheathing in residential and light commercial construction applications. To learn more about our Building Products division, please visit www.buildgp.com
We offer our employees the following:
- Variable Pay: In addition to base pay, operators may be eligible for variable pay, provided as a monetary bonus, based on performance metrics and production targets.
- Competitive Benefits Package: As part of Koch Industries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401k with company match, and much more.
What You Will Do
- Ensure maintenance work is planned in a proactive method by ensuring all activities are appropriately scoped, estimated, resourced, and in ready state prior to start of work
- Support the execution of maintenance work by receiving, planning, estimating and coordinating maintenance work orders
- Identify the need for additional resources and communicate needs to Maintenance Supervisor
- Effectively use the CMMS to develop and maintain the maintenance schedule, manage equipment data, update Bill of Materials (BOM) for assets, and develop standard maintenance procedures (SMP)
- Identify and recommend opportunities for improvements
- Maintain essential maintenance records and files
- Scope work and assess the requirements for routine, planned down day, and annual outage activities
- Verify the availability of parts, materials and tools required to perform a job prior to execution
- Create purchase requisitions for contractor labor and support storeroom management efforts
- Estimate the time and resources required for maintenance activities
- Engage in the plant's safety culture and be a leader in risk management
Employees may be assigned to various departments throughout the facility. Following is a list of physical and environmental demands for these departments:
- Work in a hot, humid, dusty, and cold environment
- Perform work in an outdoor environment, exposing one to the elements
- Perform tasks such as lifting up to 40 lbs., walking, stooping, standing, repetitively pushing and/or pulling
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- High School Diploma or GED
- Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Two (2) or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
- Experience repairing manufacturing machinery and/or electrical equipment (i.e. pumps, valves, motors, transmitters)
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
- Experience with MP2 software
- Experience in coordinating and supervising contractors
- Experience as a maintenance or outage planner within manufacturing facility
- Experience with planning/scheduling within a manufacturing industrial or military environment
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .
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, and educational 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 ).
