Maintenance Planner - Prosperity Plywood

Georgia Pacific Corp.; Prosperity (SC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Planner for its Plywood facility in Prosperity, South Carolina. The role focuses on proactive planning to improve reliability, productivity, and work quality by coordinating labor, parts, tools, and safety requirements for upcoming maintenance down-days and outages.

You will build detailed work plans, review CMMS work orders, and collaborate with maintenance teams and suppliers to ensure timely parts, safe operations, and value-driven maintenance spend.

Qualifications

• Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with CMMS (MP2 or SAP).
• Experience planning and scheduling maintenance for down-days and mill outages.
• Experience developing detailed maintenance job plans and coordinating scope, resources, materials, tools, and safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop accurate, detailed job plans defining scope, steps, labor, materials, tools, safety requirements and permits.
• Review CMMS work orders to identify those needing formal planning and ensure proper workflow before scheduling.
• Use critical thinking to ensure maintenance spend creates long-term value for the product system and mill.
• Build work order packages well in advance to support two-week or longer schedules and outage planning.
• Identify material requirements, enter material requests, maintain BOMs, and verify parts on time.
• Prioritize backlog by safety, risk, value, and parts availability; manage planning statuses.
• Participate in weekly backlog, planning, and scheduling meetings to align priorities.
• Review completed work and PM feedback to assess plan effectiveness and initiate corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Maintenance, Operations, Scheduler, Materials, Purchasing, Reliability, and contractors.
• Demonstrate initiative, attention to detail, and safe, independent or team work.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

Safety coordination

Two-week planning

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Project

Outlook

PowerPoint

CMMS MP2/SAP

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Planner for our Plywood facility in Prosperity, South Carolina. The Maintenance Planner improves reliability, workforce productivity, and work quality by anticipating and eliminating delays through proactive planning, prioritization, and coordination of labor, parts, materials, tools, safety requirements, specialty services, and equipment access. This role supports planning at least two weeks in advance and coordinates maintenance activities for maintenance down-days, and mill-wide outages.

Our Team

GP employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit https://www.buildgp.com/.

What You Will Do

• Develop accurate, detailed job plans that define the work scope, job steps and sequence, labor, materials, tools, specialty services, permits, and safety requirements.
• Review work orders in the CMMS to identify those requiring formal planning; retrieve existing plans when available, create plans when needed, and ensure work orders follow the proper workflow before ready to schedule.
• Utilize economic and critical thinking and risk-taking mentality to ensure maintenance spend create long term value for the product system and mill
• Build out work order packages far enough in advance to support a two-week or longer schedule, including regular updates to outage calendars and planning for down-days, and mill-wide outages.
• Identify material requirements, enter material requests, maintain accurate bills of materials (BOMs), and verify that the correct parts are received before scheduled downtime. Order parts only when they are expected to be installed in a timely manner.
• Support backlog management by prioritizing work based on safety and environmental needs, risk, value, operational requirements, work-order priority, preventive maintenance due dates, planning status, and parts availability.
• Conduct and actively participate in weekly backlog, planning, and scheduling meetings to align priorities, select ready work, and drive work readiness for the next two weeks.
• Review completed work and preventive maintenance feedback to assess job-plan effectiveness, capture lessons learned, document discoveries, and initiate corrective work when needed.
• Build effective working relationships with Maintenance and Operations Area Leaders, the Scheduler, Materials Coordinator, Purchasing, Reliability, contractors, and other service providers.
• Demonstrate initiative, attention to detail, and the ability to work safely and efficiently both independently and as part of a team.

Employees may work with the various departments throughout the facility. Following is a list of physical and environmental demands for these departments:

• Work in a hot, humid, dusty, and cold environment
• Perform work in an outdoor environment, exposing one to the elements
• Perform tasks such as lifting up to 40 lbs., walking, stooping, standing, repetitively pushing and/or pulling.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), such as MP2, or SAP
• Prior experience planning and scheduling maintenance work for maintenance down-days, and/or mill-wide outages.
• Experience developing detailed maintenance job plans and coordinating work scope, resources, materials, tools, and safety requirements.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Prior experience with knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance principles, including precision maintenance, predictive technologies, asset criticality, failure analysis, materials management, and outage planning.

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

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.

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

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.