Maintenance Manager

At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, food service, household, personal care and pet products.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities.

With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you.

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The Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of plant equipment and facilities to support production objectives. This role provides leadership and technical guidance to the maintenance team while fostering a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement. The Maintenance Manager oversees preventive and corrective maintenance programs, manages facility and equipment performance, and prioritizes maintenance activities to maximize uptime and operational efficiency.

Working closely with plant leadership, this position drives equipment reliability, supports capital and improvement initiatives, and ensures resources are effectively utilized to meet business goals.

JOB FUNCTIONS:

Job functions include but are not limited to the following:

• Works closely to communicate withthe operational leaders in the plant and senior leadership team
• Provide direct supervision, technical direction, administrative management, and leadership in maintenance for the department.
• Responsible for the management of equipment and maintenance.
• Supports maintenance and capital program maximizing asset reliability, uptime, and cost effectiveness with available resources.
• Provides support for the facility and equipment needs including capital and major repairs.
• Supports and oversees predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance programs.
• Uses other maintenance disciplines in the development and application of reliability engineering, root-cause analysis and troubleshooting of equipment and processes.
• Responsible for the oversight of the maintenance team to include a maintenance supervisor
• Coaches and develops training plans for hourly maintenance employees.
• Contractor relations – Fabricators, HVAC, Machine Shop, Roofing, Gearboxes, OEM relations.
• Oversee and manage the storeroom.
• Provides long-range planning for the facility and equipment needs including capital and major repairs.

• Follow all Plant rules, Processes, Hygiene, and Allergens procedures, related to production of Safe Quality Foods.
• Report to person of authority to record any potentially unsafe conditions which may result in unsafe foods or noncompliance to SQF related procedures.
• Participate in SQF Root Cause and Corrective Actions (from customer complaints, SQF audits, validation, and verification activities) as required.
• Follow all procedures related to producing Safe Quality Foods (SQF).
• Report any potentially unsafe SQF conditions or customer complaints to a person of authority to record and/or correct the situation

• Bachelor’s degree in…