Maintenance Tech Intern - $23.50/hr.

Georgia Pacific Corp.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement

Educational assistance

Paid vacation/time off

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Technician Intern at our Huntsville, AL facility. This paid hourly internship helps you develop skills in troubleshooting and maintaining manufacturing equipment while following safe work practices.

You'll work with maintenance technicians, learn to inspect and repair motors, conveyors, and related systems, and read diagrams and manuals to support equipment uptime and reliability.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Enrollment in a two-year industrial maintenance degree program.
• Willingness to work any shift, holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed.

Responsibilities

• Assist Maintenance Technicians to develop maintenance skills.
• Troubleshoot, repair, maintain, and install equipment in compliance with plant policies.
• Work with motors, pneumatic & hydraulic components, conveyors, and production line equipment.
• Read diagrams, operation manuals, and manufacturer specifications for installations.
• Use hand tools, power tools, and precision-measuring instruments.
• Adhere to plant safety and environmental guidelines.

Skills

Reading technical drawings

Troubleshooting

Electrical/electronic repair

Use of hand tools

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Enrolled in 2-year industrial maintenance degree

Tools

Hand tools

Power tools

Precision measuring devices

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is looking a Maintenance Technician Intern at our Huntsville, AL facility. This is a unique opportunity for a paid hourly internship that will help to develop skills and knowledge around troubleshooting and performing maintenance on manufacturing equipment while understanding and adhering to safe work practices. This position creates value for the facility by performing preventative and corrective maintenance leading to increased uptime and reliability, thus helping the facility to meet their production and quality goals.

What You Will Do

• Work with the Maintenance Technicians to learn and further develop knowledge and skills in the field of Industrial Maintenance.
• Participate in the troubleshooting, repairing, maintaining, and installing equipment in compliance with all plant policies and procedures.
• Work with machinery and mechanical equipment including motors, pneumatic & hydraulic components, conveyor systems, and production line equipment.
• Read diagrams, sketches, operation manuals and manufacturer’s specifications for installations.
• Use hand tools, power tools and precision-measuring devices and testing instruments.
• Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and procedures.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• High School Diploma or GED
• Must be enrolled in and pursuing a two (2) year industrial maintenance degree.
• Willing and able to work any shift, holiday, weekends and overtime as needed.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience reading technical drawings and schematics.
• Experience troubleshooting and repairing electrical/electronic equipment and components e.g.: motors, motor controllers and drives.

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 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
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• 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 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.