Maintenance Technician

Georgia Pacific; St. Marys (GA); On-site; USD 33,868 - 48,236; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Multi-Craft Maintenance Technician for its Dixie Consumer Products facility in St. Marys, GA. This role supports machine reliability by performing mechanical and electrical maintenance and assisting with startup/shutdown projects.

The position involves rotating 8-hour shifts (day/night) with no weekend work, and a starting pay of $29.80 per hour. The team focuses on safety, health excellence, and injury-free operations.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• 2+ years of manufacturing mechanical/electrical maintenance experience with safety procedures.
• Experience diagnosing and repairing electrical/electronic equipment from 24VDC to 600VDC.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and troubleshoot mechanical equipment, process controls, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment.
• Set up components such as HMI, VFD, controllers, recorders as needed.
• Troubleshoot, repair and maintain industrial machinery.
• Perform periodic maintenance routines to improve reliability and uptime.
• Maintain maintenance logs in SAP with labor hours and PM findings.
• Collaborate with operations to identify and prioritize maintenance needs.

Skills

Mechanical maintenance

Electrical maintenance

Troubleshooting

Safety procedures

HMI/SCADA

VFD/PLC

SAP

Electrical schematics

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

SAP

HMI

VFD

Allen Bradley PLC

Siemens

Wonderware/Indusoft

Electrical schematics

Job description

Your Job

Find your new role as a Multi-Craft Maintenance Technician, at our Georgia-Pacific, Dixie Consumer Products facility in St. Marys, GA! Our Maintenance Technicians enable the facility to operate at the highest performance level, meeting production goals, and maintaining a safe work environment. This role is a part of a team that strives for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. This role will create value by ensuring machine reliability through performing mechanical & electrical maintenance and supporting the facility's startup and shutdown projects.

Maintenance Technicians work a rotating 8-hour shift (day and night) and NO WEEKENDS! Pay starts at $29.80 per hour.

Our Team

This role will be responsible for creating value by ensuring machine reliability through performing mechanical & electrical maintenance and supporting the facility's startup and shutdown projects. Their successful performance will enable the facility to operate at the highest performance level, meeting production goals, and maintaining a safe work environment. This role is a part of a team that strives for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace.

What You Will Do

• Maintaining and troubleshooting mechanical equipment, process controls, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment
• Performing set up of other components such as HMI, VFD, controllers, recorders, etc as necessary per job
• Troubleshooting, repairing and maintaining industrial machinery.
• Performing periodic maintenance routines including lubricating machine tools and equipment for improved reliability and uptime
• Maintaining accurate maintenance logs including labor hours and critical preventative maintenance findings through SAP
• Working with the operations and maintenance teams to identify and prioritize maintenance needs

Who You Are

• High School Diploma or GED
• Two (2) years or more of manufacturing mechanical/electrical maintenance experience including safety procedures
• Experience diagnosing and repairing various electrical and electronic equipment ranging in voltages from 24VDC to 600 VDC

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience troubleshooting and repairing hydraulic and pneumatics systems
• Degree in Industrial Electrical Maintenance or Electrical Engineering
• Experience reading and creating technical documents (P&ID, electrical schematics for example)
• Extensive experience working on all types of industrial, electrical, and electronic equipment, including, but not limited to motors, valves, actuators, transmitters, and PLC equipment. (Allen Bradley PLC, Siemens, Wonderware/Indusoft.)
• Experience with Safety Instrumented systems (SIS)

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. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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. 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

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon success.