Maintenance Technician - Multi-Craft

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.

• 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) years of electrical experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment

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

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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