Operations Maintenance Gatekeeper

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking qualified professionals to consider for the Operations Maintenance Gatekeeper position supporting our mill.

The successful candidate will be the leader of overall asset care (practices, principles, and discipline).

This role provides strategic direction through the application of the Principle Based Management® (PBM) framework and our Guiding Principles.

Our Team

The Leominster facility uses state of the art technology to manufacture Dixie® utensils in a progressive production environment.

Dixie® is a brand of choice and is widely used in homes and businesses across the country.

The ideal candidate for this role will possess the ability to challenge the status quo to facilitate continuous improvement; collaborate across roles and diverse groups, gather, and share feedback; stay current in best practices and be a continuous learner.

What You Will Do


* Develop and adhere to the maintenance forecast by prioritizing routine and non-routine maintenance activities to meet reliability and financial goals


* Drive the AMWP (Asset Maintenance Work Process)


* Provide maintenance scheduling guidance to facilitate work order prioritization and planning


* Communicate plans for executing weekly and outage maintenance


* Help develop long-term reliability and asset strategies


* Collaborate with manufacturing engineers, performance leaders, maintenance team members, and department leaders on critical equipment strategies


* Providing technical support on both capital and non-capital projects


* Oversee contractor spend and management


* Support safety vision of an incident free workplace


* Ensuring all safety work orders are completed on time


* Work with reliability team to manage the work order backlog


* Champion annual outage planning and execution to ensure that the work performed will allow the assets to meet goals in EH&S, quality, reliability, and estimated costs


* Working with personnel initiating work requests to improve the quality of information provided


* Leadership, communication, collaboration and facilitator skills


* Ability to prioritize and use sound economical thinking skills


* Strong knowledge of equipment reliability (injection molding is a plus)


* Ability to work with all levels of the organization

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Five or more years of experience working within a manufacturing operation


* Experience leading and facilitating meetings


* Experience using a CMMS (computer maintenance management system)

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering or Management


* Experience within a mechanical or electrical maintenance role


* Experience leading a maintenance or reliability department


* Experience within plastics industry or injection molding manufacturing


* Experience using Microsoft Project and SAP

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