Maintenance Leader: Utilities and Outage

Flint Hills Resources; Brunswick (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific's Brunswick Cellulose facility seeks a Utilities and Outage Maintenance Leader to own maintenance and reliability across recovery, power, recausticizing, and waste-treatment operations, and to oversee mill-wide outage planning.

You will partner with operations, engineering, procurement, and maintenance to deliver safe, cost-effective outages, build asset strategies, and drive disciplined execution through supervisors, planners, and contractors.

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance or reliability improvement in a continuous-process manufacturing environment.
• Experience planning and executing major outages, turnarounds, or complex maintenance events.
• Experience using preventive and predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis, and reliability-improvement methods.
• Experience with CMMS/EAM systems for maintenance planning and performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance and reliability for recovery, power, recausticizing, and waste-treatment operations.
• Plan and execute mill-wide outages, including scope, schedules, and post-outage review.
• Develop maintenance strategies to improve safety, reliability, uptime, and lifecycle costs.
• Improve planning, scheduling, preventive/predictive maintenance, and root-cause analysis.
• Manage budgets, contractors, scope changes, and safety/compliance standards.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Outage planning

Reliability improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or technical field

CMRP certification

Tools

CMMS / EAM systems

Job description

Maintenance Leader: Utilities and Outage

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Utilities and Outage Maintenance Leader for our Brunswick Cellulose facility. In this role, you will lead maintenance and reliability for the mill’s recovery, power, recausticizing, and waste-treatment operations while owning the mill-wide outage-planning process. You will partner across operations, engineering, procurement, and maintenance to improve equipment reliability and deliver safe, predictable, and cost-effective outages .

Our Team

The Brunswick Cellulose facility is one of the largest integrated fluff pulp mills in the country, with a modern woodyard, fiber line, three paper machines, waste-treatment plant, and utilities operations. The mill is located in the southeast corner of Georgia, minutes from downtown Brunswick and approximately one hour from Jacksonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia.

What You Will Do

• Lead maintenance and reliability for recovery, power, recausticizing, and waste-treatment operations.
• Lead mill-wide outage planning and execution, including scope, priorities, schedules, material and contractor readiness, startup, and post-outage review.
• Build and execute maintenance and asset strategies that improve safety, equipment reliability, availability, operating stability, and lifecycle cost.
• Strengthen planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment criticality strategies, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action closure.
• Partner with operations and engineering to identify equipment risks and prioritize repairs, outage work, and long-term capital or replacement needs.
• Manage maintenance and outage budgets, forecasts, contractors, scope changes, and performance measures while maintaining strong safety, environmental, and equipment-integrity standards.
• Build capability and accountability across supervisors, planners, crafts, engineers, contractors, and operating partners through visible field leadership and disciplined execution.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading maintenance or reliability improvement in a continuous-process manufacturing environment.
• Experience planning and executing major outages, turnarounds, or complex maintenance events.
• Experience applying preventive and predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis, equipment criticality, and reliability-improvement methods.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system or enterprise asset-management system for maintenance planning, scheduling, prioritization, and performance reporting.
• Experience managing maintenance or outage budgets, contractors, priorities, and scope changes while working across operations, maintenance, engineering, and procurement.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or a related technical field.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification.
• Experience in pulp and paper, chemical processing, power generation, or another asset-intensive continuous-process industry.
• Experience with high-pressure boilers, recovery boilers, turbine-generators, power-distribution systems, recausticizing equipment, or waste-treatment systems.
• Demonstrated success leading major outages with strong safety, schedule, cost, startup, and reliability outcomes.

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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 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.

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