Multi-Craft Maintenance Technician

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Looking for a career with an organization that truly cares about your health, safety, and success? How about a career where you have opportunity for advancement, variable pay for performance, job stability and great co‑workers and leadership? At Georgia‑Pacific, we don't believe that a job is just simply a job. We see each role as a career and a way to advance your skills to not only better your life, but the community as well.

Our Georgia‑Pacific, Gypsum plant located in Swee­twater, TX is seeking a qualified individual to join our team as a Multi‑Maintenance Technician
. The maintenance team helps ensure the successful operation of the facility by resolving mechanical and electrical issues, recommending alternative repairs and equipment upgrades, identifying quality concerns, setting equipment in a precision state, and understanding the production threshold of the equipment.

Position:
Multi‑Craft Maintenance Technician

• Troubleshoot, install, align, dismantle, repair, and maintain industrial machinery, mechanical equipment, electrical equipment, and circuits
• Install and align new equipment
• Perform periodic proactive asset strategies, such as maintenance routes, preventative maintenance, and other tasks to improve reliability and uptime
• Install and repair mechanical drives, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, belts, and couplings
• Maintain and troubleshoot pneumatic systems, control devices, hydraulic equipment, circuits, and components
• Perform daily preventative maintenance routes
• Read and interpret mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic schematics
• Maintain accurate maintenance logs including labor hours and critical preventive maintenance findings
• Work with the operations and maintenance teams to identify and prioritize maintenance needs
• Help meet or exceed production and quality goals while optimizing equipment to reduce waste
• Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and procedures and actively participating in the safety program
• Assist in the development and implementation of reliability/ precision centered maintenance strategies
• Use pipe fitting skills to weld, cut, fit and install piping throughout the facility
• Apply problem solving methods to identify the root cause and eliminate failure
• Work any shift, weekends, holidays, and overtime

Requirements:

• Two (2) years of electrical experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment
• Two (2) years of experience with installation, calibration, fabrication, and preventive maintenance in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
• Experience utilizing and interpreting electrical schematics & mechanical drawings.
• Six (6) month's experience with:
• Single and 3‑phase electrical repair and troubleshooting up to 480 Volts
• Troubleshooting and repairing hydraulic and pneumatics systems
• Troubleshooting issues and making repairs on bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes and conveyor
• Precision alignment of motors, couplings, bearings, and pumps
• Installing, troubleshooting, repairing and calibrating electrical/mechanical instrumentation

• Two (2) year degree on Industrial Maintenance Technology
• Experience with PLCs (RSLogix 5000)
• Experience with VFDs (Allen‑Bradley, Yaskawa, Toshiba)
• Experience using a cutting torch and welding with arc welder and fabrication
• Experience with Systems integration. PLC, HMI, Networking, Communication & Power distribution

These highly skilled positions will support our operations efficiency through troubleshooting and maintaining manufacturing equipment and processes. In our culture, employees can thrive and are encouraged to create the greatest value for themselves, the organization, our customers, and society.

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