Maintenance Planner

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Planner for our lumber mill in Gurdon, AR. As a Maintenance Planner you will create value by utilizing strong organizational and planning skills to prioritize work with the proper sense of urgency.

At Georgia-Pacific, we are innovative, we manufacture products that make people’s lives easier, and we provide careers, not just jobs for our employees. We foster a culture that values integrity and compliance more than anything else, and we encourage our employees to challenge the status quo. If you are interested in joining our team, you can learn more about our Building Products division at

• Embrace influential leadership to support the organization while advancing our Principle-Based Management (PBM) culture.
• The ability to review work requests with Operations and Maintenance to set Work Priorities.
• Plan work orders to ensure safety, scope of work, parts and labor are added to each work while understanding which work orders may require an in-depth job plan.
• Ability to lead and facilitate small groups of people to develop job plans to ensure success in the quality of work and the accuracy of costs with labor and materials.
• Interpret Bills of Materials, drawings, instructional manuals, standard procedures as needed to ensure integration into MP2.
• Maintains and controls work order backlogs awaiting planning and/or scheduling in accordance with the Gate Keeper’s needs.
• Verifies the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for job execution prior to scheduling.
• Knowledge of each department’s Preventative Maintenance workload.
• Schedules to 90% labor loading and works with the Maintenance Supervisor to achieve 85% completion rate on planned work.
• Coordinates with Contractors to ensure scope of work and adequate resources are used.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

• Three (3) years or more of industrial maintenance experience.
• Experience leading and facilitating meetings.
• Experience using MP2.

• A technical degree with Mechanical Maintenance or Engineering.
• Experience evaluating and categorizing loss-time data.

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 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.