East Maintenance Planner - Sweetwater (Gypsum)

Georgia Pacific; Sweetwater (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific’s Gypsum Division in Sweetwater, TX seeks a Maintenance Planner to support manufacturing operations. The role focuses on proactive planning, scheduling, and coordination of maintenance work to keep equipment reliable and downtime minimal.

You will use CMMS and MS Office tools to plan, estimate, and track work orders, collaborate with production teams and parts coordinators, and drive safety and efficiency across the site.

Qualifications

• Previous experience planning in manufacturing/industrial/military environments.
• Experience using CMMS to manage maintenance work.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Project).
• Ability to work on-call hours as required.

Responsibilities

• Plan maintenance work proactively with proper scoping, estimation, and readiness.
• Receive, plan, estimate, and coordinate maintenance work orders.
• Collaborate with Production Teams, Plant Engineers, Maintenance Supervisor and Parts Coordinator on routes and PM/PP tasks.
• Maintain daily and weekly maintenance schedules and publish them.
• Use CMMS to manage schedules, equipment data, BOMs and SMPs.
• Identify opportunities for improvements and maintain maintenance records.

Skills

Planning

CMMS

MS Office

Manufacturing experience

Tools

MS Project

Excel

Word

Outlook

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading makers of tissue, pulp, packaging, building products and related chemicals. You may recognize our household brands, such as Brawny paper towels, Quilted Northern bath tissue and Dixie cups and tableware. If you're in the construction business, you're probably familiar with our gypsum panels and other quality building materials. Even if you work in aerospace, mining or facilities management, Georgia-Pacific products may be part of your day.

Georgia-Pacific's Gypsum Division is seeking qualified professionals for their Maintenance Planner opportunity to support the manufacturing operations at the facility located in Sweetwater, TX.

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
• Collaborate with Production Teams, Plant Engineers, Maintenance Supervisor and Parts Coordinator to review daily routes, Preventative Maintenance tasks, Predictive Maintenance tasks, etc.
• Daily and weekly maintenance schedules available and posted
• Provides daily work order and task performer hourly activities
• Maintain an active running list of opportunity maintenance items for break-in work
• 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)
• Identifies/recommends opportunities for improvements
• Maintains essential maintenance records and files
• Scope work and assess the requirements for routine, planned down day, and annual outage activities
• Work with Parts Coordinator and Storeroom to maintain equipment bill of materials, remove obsolete/inaccurate parts and populate incomplete bills of material.
• Engage in the plant's safety culture and be a leader in risk management

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Previous experience working as a planner within a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Project)
• Ability to work on-call hours as required

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in coordinating contractors
• Experience as a maintenance or outage planner within manufacturing facility
• Prior Gypsum experience

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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

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