Maintenance Superintendent

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Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking two Maintenance Superintendents for the Wauna Mill in Clatskanie, OR. These Maintenance Superintendents will oversee the Converting and Pulping/Utilities area. The ideal candidates will lead preventative and predictive maintenance programs, providing expert technical support to troubleshoot issues, reduce downtime, and improve process efficiency within the converting department. These roles require close collaboration with engineers and operations teams to evaluate and address maintenance needs for daily operations and scheduled shutdowns.

Reporting directly to the Maintenance and Reliability Leader, you will oversee salaried direct reports and manage teams as large as 40 employees.

For over 50 years, the Wauna Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 850 employees, Wauna strives to lead the tissue, towel and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $150 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

• Supervise and coordinate all maintenance activities in the department, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance, ensuring alignment with production schedules and minimizing equipment downtime.
• Plan and manage outage and turnaround maintenance by collaborating with planners, production teams, contractors, and engineering to optimize resource allocation and task sequencing.
• Lead, mentor, and evaluate maintenance staff, including supervisors, technicians and planners, fostering skill development, safety awareness, and team accountability through regular training and performance coaching.
• Promote a culture of safety by driving employee involvement and ownership in hazard identification and risk mitigation, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Develop, control, and monitor the maintenance budget, including labor, materials, and subcontractor expenses; prepare detailed salary and labor reports covering overtime and workforce utilization.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and documentation, including equipment history and workforce performance, and generate comprehensive reports on equipment reliability, maintenance costs, and labor expenditures for senior management.
• Establish and track key performance metrics, goals, and benchmarks to drive continuous process improvements that enhance operational efficiency and align maintenance efforts with business objectives.
• Provide technical support in troubleshooting and problem resolution to improve equipment safety, reliability, and process efficiencies, while clearly communicating daily priorities and milestone expectations.
• Collaborate with Environmental Health and Safety, Operations, Reliability, and Engineering teams to ensure comprehensive maintenance planning that supports overall site safety compliance and operational reliability.
• Adapt to site and company initiatives by supporting safety training, team development, performance management, and reporting activities, maintaining flexibility to meet evolving organizational needs.

• Maintenance supervisory experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting, including responsibility for managing direct reports.
• Experience implementing precision maintenance strategies across multiple departments.
• Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems).
• Background in one or more of the following areas:
  • Converting - Experience in paper, corrugated, packaging, or related industries such as plastics, food & beverage, bottling, etc.
  • Pulp - Expertise in raw material preparation, pulping, washing/screening, bleaching, storage, handling, fiber processing or related processes.
  • Utilities - Knowledge of chemical recovery, wastewater treatment, steam and power generation, compressed air systems, cooling systems, biorefining, or related processes.

• Associate's degree or higher in Engineering.
• Experience with manufacturing methods and continuous…