Maintenance Manager

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Alcolu (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement plan

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking a Maintenance Manager for the Clarendon OSB facility in Alcolu, SC. You will lead the maintenance department, drive reliability initiatives, and optimize asset strategies to maximize uptime and lifecycle performance.

In this role you will coach technicians and planners, partner with operations to improve backlog health, and ensure adherence to GP Operating and Maintenance Standards.

Qualifications

• Supervisory/management experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
• Experience using CMMS for maintenance management.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel) for reports and analysis.
• Knowledge of PLCs, conveyors, breakers, wood-fired furnaces, hydraulics and pneumatics.
• Experience leading Reliability, Predictive and Preventive Maintenance improvements.
• Ability to read mechanical, electrical, and structural drawings.
• Knowledge of OSB or wood products manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the maintenance department to meet safety, quality, cost, and customer service goals.
• Lead and support preventive maintenance programs and troubleshooting to minimize downtime.
• Champion safety and ensure safe work practices across the mill.
• Develop maintenance strategies and manage within budgets.
• Collaborate with other mill leaders to improve asset availability and lifecycle performance.
• Mentor and develop technicians and planners to improve skills.
• Promote Principles-Based Management and drive cultural improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Troubleshooting

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a related field

Tools

CMMS

MS Office

PLC knowledge

Hydraulic/pneumatic systems

Job description

Georgia-Pacific OSB is currently seeking a Maintenance Manager to join us at our Clarendon OSB manufacturing facility in Alcolu, South Carolina.

The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for leading advanced reliability initiatives — including precision maintenance, lubrication protocols, and preventive maintenance optimization and asset strategies — to improve maintenance effectiveness and asset performance.

This role will lead continuous improvement initiatives, coach and develop technicians and planners, and partner with operations to strengthen backlog health, improve execution, and maximize asset availability and lifecycle performance.

Georgia-Pacific Clarendon OSB is a high-performing site, recognized as a top local industry and winner of multiple "Best Manufacturing Plant" awards. The site is our flagship facility for advanced OSB manufacturing and technology, creating specialty brands GP Thermostat®, GP ForceField, and GP DryGuard®. This type of OSB is used for floor, wall, and roof sheathing in residential and light commercial construction applications.

Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will provide leadership and direction to the maintenance department to ensure that the mill’s maintenance team is meeting objectives in safety, quality, cost and customer service. The candidate will lead and support preventative maintenance programs, and provide technical support for troubleshooting, to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiencies.
• Safety Leadership – Accountable for the safety performance of the maintenance area while promoting personal accountability for working safely and addressing safety concerns in all areas of the mill.
• Asset Maintenance – Develop and implement maintenance and improvement strategies while managing within the allotted goals and budgets.
• Help employees understand who their customers are and how their work directly impacts spending and mill profits/loses.
• Business Leadership – Ensure the application of the GP Operating and Maintenance Standards.
• Demonstrate results by working effectively with other mill leaders and resources to improve year over year results.
• Meets regularly with direct reports, and other maintenance team members to increase knowledge and improve skills.
• Business Culture – Embrace the direction of the company’s way of doing business (Principled Based Management) and help continue to change the culture through tools, and processes available.

Qualifications

• Supervisory/management experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of CMMS systems for maintenance management.
• Experience using MS Office (MS Word: creating, editing, formatting documents, preparing reports and tables; MS Excel: creating, modifying spreadsheets, using functions, filters, graphs to analyze data).
• Knowledgeable in the areas of PLC’s, conveyor systems, breakers, wood fired furnaces, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Experience in leading improvement efforts in Maintenance Reliability, and Predictive and Preventive Maintenance.
• Experience in welding, machining, industrial design, and equipment rigging.
• Experience utilizing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or other similar problem-solving tools.
• Able to read mechanical, structural, and electrical drawings; with a broad knowledge of mechanical and electrical machinery.
• OSB or wood products manufacturing knowledge.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an accredited academic program.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance.
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Equal Opportunity

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