Maintenance Manager

Koch, Inc.; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific’s Diboll Particleboard facility is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead the maintenance department, develop objectives, and guide reliability initiatives. The role focuses on safety, efficiency, and budget adherence in a high‑stakes industrial setting.

You will drive preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement, partnering with mill leadership to meet annual targets and optimize process uptime.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a maintenance field in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• 3+ years of supervisory/management experience.
• Experience using CMMS, MS Office (Word, Excel) for reports and data.
• Ability to read mechanical, structural and electrical drawings.
• Experience leading maintenance improvements and RCA.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the maintenance department to meet safety, quality, cost and customer service objectives.
• Lead preventive maintenance programs and troubleshooting to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiency.
• Develop and implement maintenance, PM, and continuous improvement strategies while managing the maintenance budget.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

CMMS

MS Excel

Reading drawings

Root Cause Analysis

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is currently seeking a Maintenance Manager for its Diboll Particleboard facility located in Diboll, Texas.

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and guiding the maintenance department to achieve business goals. This leader will use their skills and experience to develop and carry out objectives, solve problems, and be able to respond to short-term as well as long term department and mill goals.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's Diboll Particleboard facility uses state of the art innovation and technology to manufacture particle board for the construction and cabinetry industry. Our particleboard is used primarily in custom cabinetry and in self-assembled cabinetry sold by international furniture stores.

What You Will Do

• The successful candidate will provide leadership and direction to the maintenance department to ensure that the mill’s maintenance team is meeting the 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 Strategies and Maintenance – Develop and implement maintenance, PM, and continuous improvement strategies while managing both leading and lagging key performance metrics. Managing within site’s maintenance budget.
• Help employees understand who their customers are and how their work directly impacts spending and mill profits/losses.
• Business Leadership – Promote use of the Reliability Mental Model, Capital planning, MOC, Lubrication Mental Model, outage planning, and condition monitoring.
• Demonstrate results by working effectively with other mill leaders and divisional resources to improve year over year results.
• Meets regularly with direct reports and ensure they have updated RR&E’s and performance evaluations.
• Understand and direct training needs for the department to meet sites needs and employee’s individual development plans.
• 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.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a maintenance field in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• A minimum of 3 years of supervisory/management experience
• Experience using CMMS, MS Office (MS Word: creating, editing, formatting documents, preparing reports and tables MS Excel: creating, modifying spreadsheets, using functions, filters, graphs to analyze data)
• Able to read mechanical, structural and electrical drawings; with a broad knowledge of mechanical and electrical machinery.
• Experience in leading improvement efforts in Maintenance, Reliability, and Predictive and Preventive Maintenance
• Experience utilizing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or other similar problem‑solving tools

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering field.
• A minimum of 5 years of supervisory/management experience
• Current CMRP or CRL, Predictive technology certifications, MLT 1
• Knowledgeable in the areas of conveyor systems, breakers, boilers, hydraulics, PLCs, and pneumatic systems
• Experience in welding, machining, industrial design, and equipment rigging.
• OSB, Composite Panels or wood products manufacturing knowledge

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

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 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.

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