Maintenance Manager

Georgia-Pacific is currently seeking a Maintenance Manager for its Diboll Particleboard facility located in Diboll, Texas.

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and guiding the maintenance department to achieve business goals. This leader will use their skills and experience to develop and carry out objectives, solve problems, and be able to respond to short-term as well as long term department and mill goals.

Georgia-Pacific's Diboll Particleboard facility uses state of the art innovation and technology to manufacture particle board for the construction and cabinetry industry. Our particleboard is used primarily in custom cabinetry and in self-assembled cabinetry sold by international furniture stores.

• The successful candidate will provide leadership and direction to the maintenance department to ensure that the mill’s maintenance team is meeting the objectives in safety, quality, cost and customer service. The candidate will lead and support preventative maintenance programs, and provide technical support for troubleshooting, to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiencies.
• Safety Leadership – Accountable for the safety performance of the maintenance area while promoting personal accountability for working safely and addressing safety concerns in all areas of the mill.
• Asset Strategies and Maintenance – Develop and implement maintenance, PM, and continuous improvement strategies while managing both leading and lagging key performance metrics. Managing within site’s maintenance budget.
• Help employees understand who their customers are and how their work directly impacts spending and mill profits/losses.
• Business Leadership – Promote use of the Reliability Mental Model, Capital planning, MOC, Lubrication Mental Model, outage planning, and condition monitoring.
• Demonstrate results by working effectively with other mill leaders and divisional resources to improve year over year results.
• Meets regularly with direct reports and ensure they have updated RR&E’s and performance evaluations.
• Understand and direct training needs for the department to meet sites needs and employee’s individual development plans.
• Business Culture – Embrace the direction of the company’s way of doing business (Principled Based Management) and help continue to change the culture through tools, and processes available.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a maintenance field in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• A minimum of 3 years of supervisory/management experience
• Experience using CMMS, MS Office (MS Word: creating, editing, formatting documents, preparing reports and tables MS Excel: creating, modifying spreadsheets, using functions, filters, graphs to analyze data)
• Able to read mechanical, structural and electrical drawings; with a broad knowledge of mechanical and electrical machinery.
• Experience in leading improvement efforts in Maintenance, Reliability, and Predictive and Preventive Maintenance
• Experience utilizing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or other similar problem‑solving tools

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering field.
• A minimum of 5 years of supervisory/management experience
• Current CMRP or CRL, Predictive technology certifications, MLT 1
• Knowledgeable in the areas of conveyor systems, breakers, boilers, hydraulics, PLCs, and pneumatic systems
• Experience in welding, machining, industrial design, and equipment rigging.
• OSB, Composite Panels or wood products manufacturing knowledge

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