Reliability Leader

Georgia‑Pacific is now hiring for a Reliability Leader at our Lumber mill in Pineland, Texas. The successful candidate will provide leadership and direction to the maintenance department to ensure that the maintenance department is meeting the objectives in EHS, compliance, reliability, quality, production cost and customer service. Lead and support preventative and predictive maintenance programs, provide technical support for troubleshooting to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiencies.

Establish metrics, goals, and benchmarks that drive excellence through promoting continuous process improvement, employee involvement, ownership, and accountability.

• The Reliability Leader is responsible for planning, directing, and guiding the business goals, plans, and processes for the maintenance department.
• This leader will use knowledge 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.
• Guide maintenance organization leaders to identify and capture opportunities in Site Services, Outage Execution, Precision Maintenance, Precision Shops, and Stores.
• Improve overall reliability and value creation through the utilization of internal resources.
• Work collaboratively with other leaders to develop, prioritize and execute strategies that improve the site’s competitiveness in the aspects of Plant Operating Cost, Volume, and Yield by utilizing the Agile and Lean processes and leveraging the capabilities of the shift team.
• Collaborate and leverage precision maintenance capabilities, knowledge, and innate abilities to transform and shift capabilities toward the Operations Vision.
• Foster a culture based on our Principle Based Management (PBM) philosophy.
• Build a reliability mindset and ownership culture in the maintenance team to drive improvement in overall site reliability.
• Drive EH&S and Reliability performance improvement through disciplined application of the Incident Reporting and Investigation Process.
• Lead the team in the development and attainment of key measures that demonstrate progress toward the Operations Vision.

• A minimum of three (3) years of management experience in a manufacturing or industrial facility.
• Must have an effective working knowledge of MS Word and Excel, and ability to learn various PC‑based production and maintenance reporting systems applications.
• Able to read mechanical, structural, and electrical drawings.
• 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.

• A Bachelor's Degree or higher in Industrial Management or a technical field such as Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical engineering.
• Five (5) or more years of maintenance management experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Knowledgeable in the areas of PLCs, conveyor systems, breakers, combustion systems, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Experience in welding, machining, industrial design, and equipment rigging.
• Building products manufacturing knowledge.

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