East Maintenance Planner - Sweetwater; Gypsum
Listed on 2026-10-07
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Manufacturing / Production
Manufacturing & Industrial Operations, Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Industrial Maintenance
Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is one of the world’s leading makers of tissue, pulp, packaging, building products and related chemicals. You may recognize our household brands, such as Brawny® paper towels, Quilted Northern® bath tissue and Dixie® cups and tableware. If you’re in the construction business, you’re probably familiar with our gypsum panels and other quality building materials. Even if you work in aerospace, mining or facilities management, Georgia-Pacific products may be part of your day.
Georgia-Pacific’s Gypsum Division is seeking qualified professionals for their Maintenance Planner opportunity to support the manufacturing operations at the facility located in Sweetwater, TX.
What You Will Do- Ensure maintenance work is planned in a proactive method by ensuring all activities are appropriately scoped, estimated, resourced, and in ready state prior to start of work
- Support the execution of maintenance work by receiving, planning, estimating and coordinating maintenance work orders
- Collaborate with Production Teams, Plant Engineers, Maintenance Supervisor and Parts Coordinator to review daily routes, Preventative Maintenance tasks, Predictive Maintenance tasks, etc.
- Daily and weekly maintenance schedules available and posted
- Provides daily work order and task performer hourly activities
- Maintain an active running list of opportunity maintenance items for break-in work
- Effectively use the CMMS to develop and maintain the maintenance schedule, manage equipment data, update Bill of Materials (BOM) for assets, and develop standard maintenance procedures (SMP)
- Identifies/recommends opportunities for improvements
- Maintains essential maintenance records and files
- Scope work and assess the requirements for routine, planned down day, and annual outage activities
- Work with Parts Coordinator and Storeroom to maintain equipment bill of materials, remove obsolete/inaccurate parts and populate incomplete bills of material.
- Engage in the plant’s safety culture and be a leader in risk management
- Previous experience working as a planner within a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
- Experience using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) .
- Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Project)
- Ability to work on-call hours as required
- Experience in coordinating contractors
- Experience as a maintenance or outage planner within manufacturing facility
- Prior Gypsum experience
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Who We AreAs a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better.
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