Maintenance Mechanic

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic for our Monticello, MS containerboard facility.

This is a highly skilled hourly position requiring a thorough understanding of safe work practices, troubleshooting, and maintenance of manufacturing equipment.

This position creates value for the facility by supporting the maintenance team with preventative and corrective maintenance leading to increased uptime and reliability, as well as reducing unplanned downtime.

Our Maintenance Mechanics work any shift, including holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed.

This position starts at $33.51 hourly or more based on experience/ability.

Our Team

Georgia Pacific Monticello is a stable employer on 2,200 acres which employs 450 employees.

This position is an opportunity to be part of a stable, rapidly expanding organization that offers a tremendous amount of growth potential.

What You Will Do


* Precision alignment of pumps and gearboxes


* Lead or assist Machining with small parts on lathe, key seater, milling machine for repair work


* Lead or assist Welding, as well as fabricating structural pipes and doing repair work


* Exchange mechanical components like pumps, gearboxes, cylinders, rolls, valves


* Inspect machinery to identify issues that may lead to unplanned downtime


* Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and procedures


* Read blueprints, technical and mechanical drawings, Process & Instrument Diagrams (P&ID's) and schematics


* Use light rigging, such as chain falls, chokers, slings, nylon belts, monorails, eyebolts, shackles, and beam clamps


* Troubleshoot issues with bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, and conveyors


* Work with hydraulic and pneumatic systems


* Use a computer for record-keeping and documentation functions


* Perform repetitive and physically demanding tasks for an extended period, lifting, walking, climbing, twisting, and stooping

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Four (4) years or more experience as a millwright, mechanic, machinist, or welder in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment

What Will Put You Ahead


* Experience in heavy industrial plants


* Two (2) years certificate in Industrial Maintenance Technology, Machining Technology, or Welding


* Journeyman level experience in welding, machining, millwright


* Completion of a mechanical apprenticeship program


* Training in precision alignment


* Mobile crane operator training


* Pipe Welding experience


* Machining experience

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