E&I Maintenance Planner (Utilities)

Georgia Pacific; Brewton (AL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific in Brewton, Alabama is seeking an E&I Maintenance Planner to support planning in the Utilities Department. You will work with maintenance and operations to ensure safe, efficient maintenance activities and contribute to a culture guided by Principle-Based Management.

The role requires coordinating work scopes, BOMs, and vendor timelines, with opportunities to improve reliability and reduce waste across maintenance events.

Qualifications

• One year or more in an E&I planning role or five years in an E&I industrial maintenance role.
• Experience reading P&IDs, loop sheets & equipment drawings, and understanding pipe codes.
• Experience generating Bill of Materials (BOM) and obtaining quotes.
• Experience with maintenance or turnaround planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Experience with Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan work and develop job scopes in assigned areas using best-in-class methods to enable the craft to understand the scope of work and execute safely.
• Support events during all phases (Pre, Execution, Post); during execution, transition to Field Execution Coordinator as needed.
• Ensure vendors understand timelines and expectations.
• Communicate issues, opportunities and solutions early and often.
• Assist with logistics planning for each event.
• Develop and communicate ideas to improve reliability, reduce waste and drive performance.
• Promote MBM principles as part of daily business decisions.

Skills

E&I planning

P&IDs reading

BOM generation

Maintenance planning

MS Office

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Your Job

Georgia Pacific’s Brewton mill is seeking an E&I Maintenance Planner to support planning in the Utilities Department. Reporting to the Planning Superintendent for the mill, these roles work closely with the Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor, hourly EI Technicians, and other maintenance and operations personnel to ensure efficient and coordinated maintenance activities. Our culture is defined by the Principle-Based Management™ philosophy which guides everyday decision making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create.

Our Team

The Brewton mill is in south central Alabama about an hour from Mobile, AL, Pensacola, FL, and the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast. The team is made up of 450 employees who produce white top linerboard and solid bleached sulfate (SBS) paperboard. The SBS material is used to make GP's Dixie plates. White top linerboard is used in production of corrugated containers and displays. This position is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding organization with tremendous growth potential. The most recent $160M capital investment was completed in late 2024. Brewton was also the first fully integrated pulp and paper mill in the US to receive an Energy Star designation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To learn more about our Bleach Board Division, visit www.gppackaging.com

What You Will Do

• Plan work/ develop job scopes in assigned areas using best-in-class methods (i.e. field walk-downs, detailed step-outs, BOMs, flange tracking, estimating, pictures, sketches, drawings, long text descriptions, templates) to enable the craft to fully understand the scope of work, execute safely and efficiently.
• Support events assigned during all phases including Pre, Execution, and Post. During the execution phase of events, transition to Field Execution Coordinator as deemed necessary.
• Ensure that vendors understand the importance of project timelines and expectations
• Communicate early and often on issues, opportunities, and solutions appropriately
• Participate/support logistic plan development for each event
• Develop, pursue, and communicate innovative ideas/solutions to support progressing our competitive advantage, creating superior value, and driving waste elimination (safety, improving reliability, higher yields, lower cost, improving performance, etc.)
• Promote and nurture an innovative culture that makes the application of MBM® through the five dimensions and Guiding Principles as an underlying foundation for conducting business

Physical Requirements

• This role involves working in various climate conditions, including hot, cold, and inclement weather. Employees will need to climb stairs and ladders periodically and wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to ensure safety. To meet business demands, you may at times need to work extended hours including nights, weekends and holidays and must be able to respond to off-hours calls for emergency response.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• One (1) or more years of experience in an E & I planning role OR five (5) or more years working in an E & I Industrial Maintenance role
• One (1) or more years of experience reading P&IDs, loop sheets & equipment drawings, and understanding pipe codes
• Experience in generating Bill of Materials (BOM) and obtaining quotes
• Experience with maintenance or turnaround planning, scheduling, and execution
• Experience with Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams

What Will Put You Ahead

• Three (3) or more years of experience in maintenance or turnaround planning, scheduling, and execution
• Experience developing cost estimates, presentations, pivot tables, and metrics

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, 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).