Maintenance Engineer

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join our Cedar Springs, GA team.

The Maintenance Engineer will be responsible for identifying opportunities to increase reliability and uptime, to support operational metrics.

This position requires a highly motivated individual who enjoys working in a multi-faceted environment.

The individual will be expected to support Operational and Maintenance personnel while adhering to a safe and environmentally responsible work environment.

This position will require the ability to work effectively within a team along with critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

The ideal candidate will have a strong sense of personal drive, a desire to develop expertise, and the ability to work without constant supervision.

This position will be expected to provide support to their assigned teams with technical, engineering, and troubleshooting guidance.

Our culture is defined by the Principle Based Management ™ philosophy which guides everyday decision making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create.

Our Team

The Cedar Springs facility is one of the largest containerboard facilities in the country with three paper machines that make different weights of brown paper & containerboard paper.

The Cedar Springs Mill, located in the southwest corner of Georgia is approximately 28 miles from Dothan, Alabama.

Dothan is the 6th largest city in the state of Alabama with a population of about 70,000.

From Dothan, you are only 90 miles from the beautiful Gulf Coast.

You can easily drive to 3 capital cities in 3 1/2 hours or less.

You are just 1.5 hours from Tallahassee, FL and Montgomery, AL.

To learn more about Georgia-Pacific's packaging business please visit: www.gppackaging.com and view the video How Paper Is Made !

What You Will Do


* Participate and support in all areas to meet Environmental, Health & Safety excellence


* Provide support to operational areas with emphasis on short and long-term reliability improvements


* Provide leadership to drive continuous improvement with asset and site reliability


* Participate and lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) efforts to identify root causes of complex and/or repetitive problems and put in place executable corrective actions


* Develop, implement, and support preventative and predictive maintenance strategies for new and existing equipment (vibration analysis, lubrication program, oil analysis, ultrasonic, infrared, NDT, thermography, MCE testing, and precision maintenance)


* Review plans for new equipment and contribute to the Design for Reliability process by validating reliability and maintainability of the systems


* Support implementation of reliability processes aimed at developing skilled maintenance and operating personnel who operate with a reliability-centric mindset


* Analyze operational data (KPIs, ...