Maintenance Planner

Georgia Pacific Corp.; Brunswick (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision

Paid vacation

Educational assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Planner at the Brunswick Cellulose Mill in Brunswick, GA. The role focuses on detailed planning, coordination, and improving maintenance workflows to deliver long-term value.

The successful candidate will work with maintenance crews, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring safe, efficient operations and robust planning for outages and daily activities.

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing, production, industrial, or military environment.
• Experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Experience with adhering to safety and regulatory compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Providing detailed planning and materials procurement for maintenance shutdowns and daily operations and/or annual outages within the facility.
• Developing and managing maintenance plans through Microsoft Project software and the AssetSuite CMMS system, ensuring all information is updated.
• Supporting mill maintenance crews and contractors during maintenance shutdown days and outages, with emphasis on coordination and scheduling of mechanical maintenance work.
• Collaborating with craftspeople, operations, contractor representatives, and materials suppliers to facilitate smooth communication and workflow.
• Enhancing safety through the creation of detailed Job Hazard Analysis documentation and adherence to permitting and procedures, leading safety practices by example.
• Performing rotating weekend on-call duties approximately once per quarter for the entire mill and occasionally covering responsibilities of other mechanical leaders.
• Balancing break-in and scheduled work, developing a weekly work forecast and timely identification of outage work.
• Applying economic and critical thinking to ensure maintenance spending delivers long-term value for the product system and mill.
• Encouraging ownership among mechanics and operators and growing their capabilities while prioritizing work with Area Leaders.
• Maintaining Planning Board metrics and providing performance explanations weekly and monthly.

Skills

Manufacturing environment experience

CMMS experience

Safety/regulatory compliance

Tools

Passport Asset Suite CMMS

SAP

4site

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Maintenance Planner at our Brunswick Cellulose Mill in Brunswick, GA. In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn and apply all aspects of Georgia-Pacific's maintenance workflow process. This role will focus on detailed job planning and coordination to support the facility. This position will require a motivated, organized and detailed oriented individual knowledgeable of industrial equipment, processes, and procedures. A successful candidate will have a long-term continuous improvement focus that values establishing systemic processes that are system versus people dependent and create sustainable value.

Our Team

The Brunswick Cellulose facility is one of the largest integrated fluff pulp mills in the country with a modern woodyard, fiberline, three paper machines, waste treatment plant, and utilities operations. The Brunswick Cellulose Mill, located in the southeast corner of Georgia is within minutes of downtown Brunswick and about an hour from Jacksonville, FL to the south and Savannah, GA to the north.

What You Will Do

• Providing detailed planning and materials procurement for maintenance shutdowns and daily operations and/or annual outages within the facility, particularly in major areas.
• Developing and managing maintenance plans through Microsoft Project software and the AssetSuite CMMS system, ensuring all information, such as Bills of Materials and specifications, is continuously updated.
• Supporting mill maintenance crews and contractors directly during maintenance shutdown days and outages, with an emphasis on efficient coordination and scheduling of mechanical maintenance work.
• Collaborating extensively with craftspeople, operations, contractor representatives, and materials suppliers to facilitate smooth communication and workflow.
• Enhancing safety through the creation of detailed Job Hazard Analysis documentation and adherence to Georgia-Pacific permitting and procedures, while leading safety practices by example.
• Performing rotating weekend on-call duties approximately once per quarter for the entire mill and occasionally covering responsibilities of other mechanical leaders.
• Demonstrating urgency and discipline in balancing break-in and scheduled work, with a focus on developing a weekly work forecast and championing timely identification and development of maintenance outage work.
• Applying economic and critical thinking skills with a risk-taking mentality to ensure maintenance spending delivers long-term value for the product system and mill.
• Encouraging personal ownership among mechanics and operators and fostering the growth of their capabilities while collaborating with Area Leaders to prioritize work.
• Assisting in manpower optimization and sharing insights with other Reliability Coordinators and Planners, as well as maintaining Planning Board metrics and providing performance explanations weekly and monthly.
• Coordinate and manage outage parts, rentals, and contractor needs by submitting requisitions and tracking their progress.
• Submit Major Expense Project (MEP) requests for parts or contractor services as required.
• Create and validate Standard Maintenance Procedures (SMPs) and/or Model Work Orders to provide detailed instructions for job execution and ensure compliance.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in a manufacturing, production, industrial, or military environment.
• Experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) (i.e. 4site, SAP, Passport, etc.).
• Experience with adhering to safety and regulatory compliance requirements.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Maintenance or Reliability experience in pulp and paper industry.
• Experience with pipe fabrication, torquing, rotating equipment & pump alignment.
• Experience with Passport Asset Suite CMMS.
• Experience with tracking purchase orders from generation to invoicing.
• Experience planning and managing outages/shutdowns.

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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.

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 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 - 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.

Equal Opportunities

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