Reliability Strategy Lead — Assistant Manager

Georgia Pacific; Toledo (OR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is seeking an Assistant Reliability Manager to lead the mill's reliability strategy, partnering with the Reliability Manager and mill leadership to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime. You will coach reliability engineers, coordinate with operations, maintenance, and engineering, and apply Koch's Principle Based Management to create long-term value.

You will guide condition-monitoring resources, drive improvement projects, and ensure reliability initiatives

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, pulp and paper, chemical, power generation, or other heavy industry environments.
• Experience with reliability engineering, maintenance, predictive maintenance, asset management, or equipment troubleshooting.
• Experience leading projects, supervising teams, coaching employees, or influencing cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance, precision maintenance, root cause analysis, reliability-centered maintenance, and asset strategy development.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Support and help execute the site reliability strategy, asset management initiatives, and long-term reliability improvement plans.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and development for reliability engineers, vibration analysts, lubrication technicians, and other reliability resources.
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Planning to improve equipment reliability and reduce production losses.
• Assist in the development and optimization of preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.
• Lead and facilitate equipment failure investigations, root cause analyses, and defect elimination efforts.
• Monitor equipment health data and use reliability analytics to identify bad actors, evaluate risk, and prioritize improvement opportunities.
• Support vibration analysis, lubrication excellence, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and other predictive maintenance technologies.
• Develop and publish reliability performance indicators, asset health metrics, and program effectiveness reports.
• Collaborate with maintenance teams to ensure reliability findings are converted into high-quality corrective work.
• Provide reliability input for capital projects, major equipment repairs, outage planning, and design-for-reliability initiatives.
• Support equipment criticality assessments, asset strategies, and long-range replacement planning.
• Promote safe work practices by identifying risks, applying critical controls, and ensuring compliance with mill safety and environmental expectations.
• Apply Koch's Principle Based Management framework by using sound economic thinking, respectful challenge, knowledge sharing, and long-term value creation to improve reliability performance.
• Coach team members to develop capabilities, close performance gaps, and contribute according to their comparative advantages while building mutually beneficial partnerships across the mill.
• Work a flexible schedule, including occasional outage and weekend support as needed to support mill performance.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Project leadership

Coaching

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP

CMMS

OSIsoft PI

Reliability databases

Job description

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is seeking an Assistant Reliability Manager to lead the mill's reliability strategy, partnering with the Reliability Manager and mill leadership to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime. You will coach reliability engineers, coordinate with operations, maintenance, and engineering, and apply Koch's Principle Based Management to create long-term value.

You will guide condition-monitoring resources, drive improvement projects, and ensure reliability initiatives