Maintenance Technician - Multi-Craft

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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.

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-Craft 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.

• The Multi-Craft Maintenance role starts at $39.00/hour and up depending on experience. Candidates must have basic electrical knowledge in addition to mechanical knowledge.
• Relocation benefits may be available

• Monday-Friday, 7:00 am - 3:00 pm, with overtime weekends and Holidays as needed.
• OR 12-hour rotating shifts Sunday-Wednesday with alternating Wednesdays off or Wednesday
  - Saturday with alternating Wednesdays off
• Additional schedules available

• Troubleshoot, install, align, dismantle, repair, and maintain industrial machinery, mechanical equipment, electrical equipment, and circuits
• Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain machinery and electrical equipment in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operating manuals and manufacturers specifications. Equipment includes but is not limited to: motors, pneumatic components, conveyor systems and production machines
• 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

• One (1) year or more of experience with installation, calibration, fabrication, and preventive maintenance in a manufacturing, industrial, agriculture, oil & gas, or military environment
• Experience utilizing and interpreting equipment drawings/schematics such as 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…