Maintenance and Reliability Engineer - Georgia-Pacific

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations is seeking qualified professionals to be considered for our Maintenance and Reliability Engineer role to support the energetic team at our new Dixie Products Operations Plant located in Jackson, TN.

If you have a passion around building capability in others, Georgia-Pacific's Dixie-Jackson Manufacturing facility is looking for a Maintenance and Reliability Engineer to help advance our team's capabilities. This role will work closely with reliability, maintenance, and operations departments to facilitate continuous improvements, safely improving productivity, reducing costs through process/equipment optimizations and operator knowledge and skill improvements throughout the Dixie Jackson facility.

Our Team

The Jackson Plant is part of the Dixie® brand plates and bowls paper products manufacturing operation. We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

We create a work environment that attracts, engages, and retains the best people. Our employees help other's and the business reach their full potential, promoting our Principle-Based Management culture to the work they do every day. Our technology is state of the art, and we will bring the best team together to deliver for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Jackson community.

What You Will Do

• Embrace influential leadership to support the organization while advancing our Principle-Based Management (PBM) culture
• Providing leadership in the achievement of improved performance in the areas of safety, environmental compliance, customer satisfaction, organizational effectiveness, cost management and asset utilization in the packaging and converting operations area
• Evaluate, approve, and prioritize equipment repairs and scheduled shutdowns utilizing the Asset Maintenance Work Process
• Coach and develop operators to reliably operate equipment and processes
• Work closely with operators and customers to troubleshoot process, quality and equipment issues and evaluate and implement improvement ideas
• Lead Root Cause Analysis process and execute effective corrective actions
• Create a safe workplace with all environmental, safety and business practices with emphasis on identifying and mitigating critical risks
• Lead and participate in continuous improvement efforts.
• Maintain necessary departmental records and reports.
• Regularly help communicate, articulate, and direct departmental priorities to achieve mill and company visions.
• Lead the focus on improving long term reliability across the product system
• Understand top priorities and continually build reliability capability in our people, process, and equipment
• Collaborate with the work system team to review and analyze loss analysis and asset tracking data to identify equipment reliability and performance issues (gap analysis) and develop improvement plans
• Identify the need for Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), initiate and lead/or participate in RCFA as needed (Critical failures, for example)
• Initiate and develop venture summaries (capital project requests) to address reliability issues
• Troubleshoot operational issues and analyze efficiency and equipment reliability data
• Facilitate, coach, and teach operational optimization concepts, work processes, methods, & tools
• Apply Discipline Operations strategy for managing continuous improvement of Product Systems and Processes leading to product improvement
• Provide feedback to the Facility leadership team on manufacturing work process gaps and results
• Mentor and support area leaders with daily manufacturing work process execution and improvement efforts
• Effectively apply the challenge process; coach initiative owners to urgently escalate issues that are prohibiting the delivery of initiative results
• Lead the implementation of continuous monitoring technologies within the Department (Plant)
• Manage/Participate in the meetings with CSC Remote Asset Health Engineers

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working within a manufacturing, industrial or military environment
• Experience in data analytics and data-driven action planning
• Experience with improving existing work processes and leading change in manufacturing areas

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering
• At least three (3) years of experience working in a paper or converting mill
• Experience initiating and/or executing capital projects
• Experience leading Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and maintenance and reliability best practices
• Experience with PI or other data historian programs

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath, tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf

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