Maintenance Planner/Scheduler - Gypsum (Blue Rapids)

Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC; Blue Rapids (KS); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific’s Gypsum Division in Blue Rapids, KS is seeking a Maintenance Planner to support our industrial plaster operations. You will plan and schedule preventive and outage activities, coordinate maintenance work orders, and work closely with production, engineers, and storeroom personnel to ensure readiness and efficiency.

The role emphasizes proactive planning, data management in the CMMS, and ongoing safety and environmental stewardship within a robust manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience planning maintenance in manufacturing, industrial, or military settings.
• Proficiency with a CMMS to schedule, estimate, and coordinate work orders.
• Strong skills with Word, Excel, Outlook, and MS Project.

Responsibilities

• Proactively plan maintenance work by scoping, estimating, and resourcing tasks.
• Coordinate maintenance work orders and support execution.
• Collaborate with production teams and engineers to review routes and maintenance tasks.
• Maintain daily/weekly maintenance schedules and track activities.
• Use CMMS to manage asset data, BOMs, and SMPs; support KPI targets.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and maintain records.

Skills

Manufacturing planning

CMMS usage

Microsoft Office

On-call readiness

Tools

MP2 CMMS

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is one of the world’s leading makers of tissue, pulp, packaging, building products and related chemicals. You may recognize our household brands, such as Brawny® paper towels, Quilted Northern® bath tissue and Dixie® cups and tableware. If you’re in the construction business, you’re probably familiar with our gypsum panels and other quality building materials. Even if you work in aerospace, mining or facilities management, Georgia‑Pacific products may be part of your day. Georgia‑Pacific’s Gypsum Division is seeking qualified professionals for their Maintenance Planner opportunity to support our Industrial Plasters manufacturing operation at our facility located in Blue Rapids, KS.

What You Will Do

• Ensure maintenance work is planned in a proactive method by ensuring all activities are appropriately scoped, estimated, resourced, and in ready state prior to start of work
• Support the execution of maintenance work by receiving, planning, estimating and coordinating maintenance work orders
• Collaborate with Production Teams, Plant Engineers, Maintenance Supervisor and Parts Coordinator to review daily routes, Preventative Maintenance tasks, Predictive Maintenance tasks, etc.
• Daily and weekly maintenance schedules available and posted
• Provides daily work order and task performer hourly activities
• Maintain an active running list of opportunity maintenance items for break-in work
• Effectively use the CMMS to develop and maintain the maintenance schedule, manage equipment data, update Bill of Materials (BOM) for assets, and develop standard maintenance procedures (SMP)
• Oversee / Manage Asset Maintenance Work Process KPIs
• Identifies/recommends opportunities for improvements
• Maintains essential maintenance records and files
• Scope work and assess the requirements for routine, planned down day, and annual outage activities
• Work with the Storeroom to maintain equipment bill of materials, remove obsolete/inaccurate parts and populate incomplete bills of material.
• Engage in the plant’s safety culture, environmental stewardship and be a leader in risk management

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Previous experience working as a planner within a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Project)
• Ability to work on-call hours as required

What will Put You Ahead

• Experience in coordinating contractors
• Experience with CMMS - MP2
• Experience as a maintenance or outage planner within manufacturing facility
• Prior Gypsum experience

Why Join Us

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.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers.

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 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.

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.