Maintenance Scheduler - Georgia-Pacific

Are you a self-motivated, detail-oriented individual with a strong sense of urgency? Do you have good organization skills and enjoy working in a team environment? If so, this may be the job for you. Georgia-Pacific in Madison, GA has an opening for a Maintenance Scheduler at our plywood mill. This position reports to the Maintenance Manager and must be able to multi-task well.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific in Madison, GA is part of GP's building products division and one of the leading plywood manufacturing plants. We specialize in the conversion of raw wood materials into plywood. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com.

What You Will Do

• Ensure daily and weekly maintenance schedules are available and communicated, distributed.
• Effectively use the CMMS to develop and maintain the maintenance schedule
• Work with the business unit to create and provide maintenance outage/shutdown for the plant outages.
• Work closely with area maintenance leadership, operations leadership, capital engineers, reliability personnel, and crafts persons to provide effective scheduling of daily work and outage/ shutdown functions
• Scheduling for shutdowns (major and minor), utilizing tools such as Gantt charts (Microsoft Project), Critical Path Analysis, and resource leveling
• Lead the meeting process prior to and during outages/shutdowns and post-outage critique
• Provide updates to business unit leaders and audit cost adherence and quality execution during outages/shutdown
• Work with Maintenance Leadership Team to develop an outage/shutdown schedule in Microsoft Project or similar software that allows for complete outage tracking
• Develop an understanding of safety standards to effectively schedule the correct work at the correct time
• Providing administrative support, generating reports, maintenance metrics, performing data entry, and scheduling maintenance work orders for the maintenance team - maintains essential maintenance records and files.
• Schedule executable work orders based on requirements of the department leadership team
• Print and distribute scheduled work orders for maintenance, operations, and safety based on the scheduled work date
• Generate and distribute monthly maintenance 4-week forecast
• Effectively managing relationships with key stakeholders, including Maintenance and Production Team Leaders, Reliability Coordinators, and Operations Leadership
• Demonstrate high initiative, attention to detail, and ability to work safely and efficiently as a team and independently
• Identify/recommend opportunities for improvements
• Ensure adherence to all safety, environmental and purchasing policies, guidelines, and procedures
• Willing and able to work in a tobacco free environment
• Willing and able to wear necessary Personal Protective Equipment (i.e. hard hat, safety glasses, face shields, ear plugs, steel-toe boots, and other job-specific PPE)
• Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment.
• Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, and pushing/pulling for up to twelve hours a day
• Willing and able to work any shift, which may include weekends, holidays, and overtime as need arises.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in Maintenance Process/workflow in an industrial manufacturing environment
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite programs including Outlook, Word, Excel and Project
• Experience with a computer maintenance management system (CMMS)

What Will Put You Ahead

• Associates degree or higher in Business or Technical or Engineering field
• Experience with MP2 system
• Experience with scheduling large industrial shutdowns and outages

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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.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.