Maintenance Operations Coordinator (Gatekeeper) - Pulp

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Muskogee (OK); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific's Muskogee Mill in Oklahoma is seeking a Maintenance Operations Coordinator (Gatekeeper) to connect Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Reliability teams. The role owns backlog, planning, and asset strategies to drive value through disciplined execution.

You will lead maintenance planning, prioritize work, and coach planners while improving scheduling and reliability. This position focuses on safety, cost control, and continuous improvement within a large paper mill

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial or military environment.
• Experience using financial and equipment data, metrics, or performance trends to support decision making.
• Experience managing spend plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the department to continuously improve safety and environmental performance.
• Develop and own the annual department spend plan and connect employees to department objectives.
• Own and manage maintenance work request, planning, and executable backlogs.
• Lead area maintenance prioritization efforts to ensure the right work is completed at the right time.
• Coach and develop maintenance planners while improving planning and scheduling processes.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate high-maintenance, high-cost, or unreliable assets through improved maintenance practices and asset strategies.
• Coordinate with Area Operations Leaders and Area Reliability Leaders to align maintenance priorities, operating plans, reliability initiatives, and outage strategies.
• Utilize root cause analysis and other problem-solving tools to resolve reliability, maintenance, and operational issues.
• Support area reliability improvement efforts through preventative, predictive, and precision maintenance practices.
• Provide technical support and reliability expertise to operating areas.
• Monitor maintenance performance metrics and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Skills

Manufacturing environment experience

Data-driven decision making

Spend planning

Maintenance leadership

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products business is seeking a Maintenance Operations Coordinator (Gatekeeper) to support our Muskogee Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. This role will serve as a key connection point between Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Reliability teams to ensure maintenance resources are focused on the highest-value opportunities. The Gatekeeper will own maintenance backlog management, support maintenance planning processes, drive reliability improvements, manage finances, and help create long-term value through disciplined execution of maintenance work processes and asset strategies.

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products business is seeking a Maintenance Operations Coordinator (Gatekeeper) to support our Muskogee Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. This role will serve as a key connection point between Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Reliability teams to ensure maintenance resources are focused on the highest-value opportunities. The Gatekeeper will own maintenance backlog management, support maintenance planning processes, drive reliability improvements, manage finances, and help create long-term value through disciplined execution of maintenance work processes and asset strategies.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Muskogee Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 700 employees, across more than 600 acres, Muskogee strives to lead the tissue, towel, and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $50 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect. Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do

• Provide leadership for the department to continuously improve safety and environmental performance
• Develop and own the annual department spend plan and connect employees to department objectives
• Own and manage maintenance work request, planning, and executable backlogs
• Lead area maintenance prioritization efforts to ensure the right work is completed at the right time
• Coach and develop maintenance planners while improving planning and scheduling processes
• Identify opportunities to eliminate high-maintenance, high-cost, or unreliable assets through improved maintenance practices and asset strategies
• Coordinate with Area Operations Leaders and Area Reliability Leaders to align maintenance priorities, operating plans, reliability initiatives, and outage strategies
• Utilize root cause analysis and other problem-solving tools to resolve reliability, maintenance, and operational issues
• Support area reliability improvement efforts through preventative, predictive, and precision maintenance practices
• Provide technical support and reliability expertise to operating areas
• Monitor maintenance performance metrics and identify opportunities for continuous improvement

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial or military environment.
• Experience working with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems).
• Experience using financial and equipment data, metrics, or performance trends to support decision making.
• Experience managing spend plans.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Pulp and Paper experience
• Experience working within Process Safety Management (PSM) or covered process environments
• Experience supporting reliability improvements within manufacturing operations
• Supervisory experience.

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