Maintenance Millwright

Georgia Pacific; Alcolu (SC); On-site; USD 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific's Oriented Strand Board (OSB) plant in Alcolu, South Carolina has an incredible opportunity for a Maintenance Millwright. This hourly role requires thorough understanding of safe work practices and maintenance of manufacturing equipment.

You will work a 12-hour rotating shift, including holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed, contributing to reliability and uptime through proactive troubleshooting, repairs, and preventive maintenance.

Qualifications

• Experience installing, troubleshooting, and repairing industrial equipment.
• Experience troubleshooting conveyors, hydraulics, pneumatics, and pumps.
• Experience with fabrication and welding.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Actively participate in safety programs.
• Help meet or exceed production, waste, and quality goals through a quality maintenance program.
• Troubleshoot, install, align, dismantle, repair, and maintain industrial machinery and mechanical equipment for improved reliability and uptime.
• Perform periodic maintenance to identify and correct mechanical defects before they lead to equipment failure and downtime.
• Communicate with operations associates to identify and prioritize maintenance needs.

Skills

Industrial equipment troubleshooting

Hydraulics

Pneumatics

Conveyors

Reading blueprints

Record-keeping with computer

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Machine tools

Fabrication and welding

Job description

Georgia-Pacific's Oriented Strand Board (OSB) plant in Alcolu, South Carolina has an incredible opportunity for a Maintenance Millwright. This highly skilled hourly position requires a thorough understanding of safe work practices, troubleshooting, and maintenance of manufacturing equipment.

Individuals in this role must be able to commit to a 12‑hour rotating shift, including holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed.

What You Will Do

• Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Actively participate in safety programs.
• Help meet or exceed production, waste, and quality goals through a quality maintenance program.
• Troubleshoot, install, align, dismantle, repair, and maintain industrial machinery and mechanical equipment for improved reliability and uptime.
• Perform periodic maintenance to identify and correct mechanical defects before they lead to equipment failure and downtime.
• Communicate with operations associates to identify and prioritize maintenance needs.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience installing, troubleshooting, and repairing industrial equipment.
• Experience troubleshooting conveyors, hydraulics, pneumatics, and pumps.
• Experience with fabrication and welding.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with precision alignment of motors, couplings, bearings, and pumps, lubrication.
• Certification in welding.
• Experience with machine tool and die.
• Experience with reading blueprints and precision measurements.
• Experience using a computer for record‑keeping and documentation functions.
• High school diploma or GED.

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—including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline.

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.