Heavy Equipment Mechanic - Gurdon Lumber

Georgia‑Pacific’s lumber facility in Gurdon, Arkansas is looking for a Heavy Equipment Mechanic to join their team. This position is an experienced skilled craft role that creates value by performing a variety of duties, which ensure maximum facility uptime to meet production goals. Competitive pay based on experience.

Georgia‑Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury‑free workplace.

• Troubleshoot, install, align, dismantle, repair, and maintain equipment to improve reliability and uptime.
• Use our CMMS to add parts into inventory and enter requisitions.
• Work with vendors on parts availability and the best way to get parts.
• Order parts and fluids needed to keep equipment running.
• Work with mechanical machinery, including hydraulics.
• Change tires, replace hydraulic hoses, and perform basic maintenance on equipment.
• Help meet or exceed production waste and quality goals through a quality maintenance program.
• Work in a very fast‑paced industrial manufacturing environment while displaying an emphasis on safety, quality, and environmental concerns.
• Must be able to work any schedule including overtime, weekends, and be available for on‑call rotation.
• Willing to help train/mentor other mechanics.
• Will work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment.
• Will maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
• Use a computer to complete specific tasks.

• 2+ years of mechanic experience.
• Experience troubleshooting on machinery including heavy equipment loaders, forklifts, automotive (trucks, golf carts, 18‑wheelers, etc.).
• Experience with hydraulic and pneumatic equipment.

• 2+ years of Heavy Equipment Mechanic experience.
• Experience reading and interpreting pneumatic and hydraulic schematics.
• Experience troubleshooting HVAC units on equipment.
• Experience working with Caterpillar and Cummins engines.
• Experience cutting with a torch, welding with an arc welder, and reading tap charts.

We provide a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, retirement, paid vacation and time off, educational assistance, infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable plan descriptions and may vary by location.

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.