Maintenance & Reliability Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific has an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance and Reliability Leader at our Monticello facility.

The Maintenance Leader will drive initiatives that will define operational excellence and set the conditions for sustainable growth and success.

If you thrive in challenging environments and are motivated to lead continuous improvement that will make a lasting impact, this role presents a remarkable opportunity to showcase your skills and expertise.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Monticello is a fully integrated containerboard mill that employs 450 employees and continues to benefit from extensive capital investment.

This position is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding organization with tremendous growth potential.

Monticello, Mississippi, is an hour South of Jackson, MS, and an hour Northwest of Hattiesburg, MS.

What You Will Do

• Lead maintenance and reliability efforts to ensure the delivery of sustainable and improved operational results.

• Drive engagement and commitment from the maintenance, operations, and engineering teams to support operational excellence.

• Lead a reliability strategy aimed at minimizing downtime, improving equipment availability, and maximizing asset utilization.

• Identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions as needed.

• Work closely with maintenance and reliability teams to develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs.

• Analyze historical data and collaborate with subject matter experts to identify critical failure modes and develop strategies to mitigate risks.

• Lead root cause analysis and reliability improvement initiatives for recurring equipment failures, ensuring long-term solutions are implemented.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance equipment reliability, optimize maintenance strategies, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Provide leadership for the area to embrace and advance disciplined operations as established by the mill's vision for sustainably creating a stable, capable, and predictable manufacturing process.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• A minimum of 10 years of supervisory/management experience within manufacturing, military, or industrial maintenance environments.

• Experience managing and developing salaried leaders.

• Experience in leading improvement efforts in reliability and predictive/preventive maintenance.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in maintenance of facilities, mechanical, and/or electrical equipment.

A successful candidate should be able to efficiently manage mechanical and electrical duties associated with the role.

• Must have an effective working knowledge of MS Word and Excel, and ability to learn various PC-based production and maintenance reporting systems applications.

• Experience utilizing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or other similar problem-solving tools.

• Experience with predictive maintenance techniques su...