Contractor Coordinator​/Planner - Brunswick

Contractor Coordinator/Planner - Brunswick

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Contract Coordinator/Maintenance Planner at our Brunswick Cellulose Mill in Brunswick, GA
. In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn and apply all aspects of Georgia-Pacific's maintenance workflow process. This role will focus on detailed job planning and coordination to support the facility. This position will require a motivated, organized and detail oriented individual knowledgeable of industrial equipment, processes, and procedures. A successful candidate will have a long-term continuous improvement focus that values establishing systemic processes that are system versus people dependent and create sustainable value.

• Develop and maintain detailed maintenance job plans (daily work, shutdowns, annual outages, capital projects) and associated model work orders and equipment documentation using Microsoft Project, Passport Asset Suite CMMS, PTM, and other scheduling tools.
• Create, validate, and continuously improve Bills of Material (BOMs) and Standard Maintenance Procedures (SMPs) to ensure accurate, up-to-date maintenance execution.
• Produce and manage weekly maintenance schedules for assigned contractor crews, coordinate through area scheduling meetings, balance planned work with break‑in maintenance, maintain forecasts, and support mill reliability as a General Mill Planner/Gatekeeper backup.
• Coordinate outage materials, rental equipment, speciality tools, and contractor support, and submit Major Expense Project (MEP) requests for required materials and services.

• Serve as the primary coordinator for mill‑wide maintenance service contracts and contractor activities, including onboarding, site access, safety documentation, insurance verification, and compliance.
• Develop, review, and optimize contractor work scopes and annual service agreements to improve safety, quality, cost, and execution, and support contract renewals and continuous improvement.
• Administer contractor procurement and financials: manage purchase requisitions, purchase orders, service entries, invoice reconciliation, change orders, and contract closeouts, ensuring maintenance costs are assigned to correct accounting/cost centres.
• Track and report contractor performance, budgets, committed costs, and change orders to drive accountability, cost control, and execution efficiency.

• Manage and prioritise the daily activities of baseline contractors to improve the safety, reliability, and availability of mill assets.

• Develop and maintain weekly maintenance schedules for nested contractor crews and coordinate opportunities through area scheduling meetings.
• Optimise contractor utilisation to support safety work, break‑in maintenance, backlog reduction, and reliability improvements by reviewing area backlogs, KCF reports, and maintenance priorities.
• Manage nested contracts to satisfy mill maintenance needs while reducing overall contractor costs.
• Identify and implement improvements to contractor productivity, planning effectiveness, and daily work execution.

• Champion mill safety with an unwavering commitment to zero significant injuries and support for the mill safety vision.
• Build and maintain weekly contractor schedules that align with mill priorities and resource availability; attend daily maintenance updates, area scheduling, and MSE meetings to coordinate work, forecast, and optimise execution.
• Manage PTM, Passport Asset Suite, scheduling tools, and Action Item (AAA) systems to support maintenance execution and accurate work order scheduling.
• Ensure maintenance costs are charged to the correct accounting/cost centres and continuously expand process knowledge across all mill areas to improve planning effectiveness, troubleshooting, and execution.

• Experience in a manufacturing, production, industrial, or military environment.
• Experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) (i.e.…