Maintenance Manager

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Manager for our State of the Art lumber mill in beautiful Albany GA. In this role, the Maintenance Manager is a key member of the site senior leadership team and is responsible for safely leading and supporting reliability for the site. You will be a technical resource that provides and shares expertise, improve maintenance and operating practices, opportunities to advance the use of technology, in addition to growing the skill set and development of those in your department.

You will also lead the implementation of reliability improvement initiatives and projects to achieve the desired results.

• Develop, lead, and cultivate a safe working environment. Building capabilities in the leadership team and empowering employees to identify risk and driving these conditions with corrective actions.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with Operations to ensure that all are working towards the same vision and goal.
• Responsible for the asset maintenance work processes such as planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Implementing and sustaining critical asset reliability practices to maximize equipment operational availability and uptime (precision, lube, MI, electrical, etc).
• Forecasting and developing outage planning and execution.
• Build a high-performance team by selecting and retaining the right talent, driving transformation, focusing on highest value opportunities, applying comparative advantage, and holding leaders and employees accountable to results.
• Help develop the capital strategy and major expense projects for the facility to ensure the continued success and health of the mill.
• Owner and manage the maintenance supplies and contractor expense budget monthly. Developing a team utilizing our CMMS to forecast expense properly.
• Develop and implement predictive and preventive maintenance strategies. Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and the tools associated with failure detection (i.e. vibration analysis, oil monitoring, thermography) as well as the software associated with them.
• Provide support for troubleshooting and helping resolve daily problems.
• Assess employee performance, including technical skills and knowledge and develop plans to improve the technical competency of his/her team. Create and deliver quality performance reviews with your direct reports and leadership team.
• Will be responsible for maintenance, electrical, reliability, planning, scheduling, and controls team.

• Maintenance experience working in a fast-paced, multi-tasking industrial manufacturing environment.
• 3 years of management experience.
• Experience utilizing Root Cause Analysis or other similar problem-solving tools.
• Experience forecasting and developing budgets.
• Experience in leading improvement efforts in reliability, predictive, and preventative maintenance.
• Working knowledge and experience with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, industrial technology, or manufacturing discipline or 10 years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Certification as a maintenance reliability professional.
• Wood products experience.
• Experience with MP2.

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