Maintenance and Reliability Leader

Georgia-Pacific is looking for a Maintenance and Reliability Manager to join our team in Brewton, AL!

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Containerboard Division is hiring a Maintenance and Reliability Leader for the Brewton Paper Mill in Alabama.

This leader will report directly to the Plant Manager and be responsible for both salaried maintenance leadership and union hourly maintenance teams.

The ideal candidates will lead preventative and predictive maintenance programs, providing expert technical support to troubleshoot issues, reduce downtime, and improve process efficiency across the facility.

These roles require close collaboration with engineers and operations teams to evaluate and address maintenance needs for daily operations and scheduled shutdowns.

Our Team

We are a principled based company that relies heavily on teamwork and ingenuity, managing through Principle Based Management values.

We pride ourselves on being the partner of choice for our internal and external customers.

For nearly 70 years, the Brewton Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region.

With more than 450 employees, Brewton strives to lead the GP containerboard and Dixie SBS board business.

Our team continues to grow our brands and serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

What You Will Do

• Lead and direct all maintenance and reliability activities in a 24/7 manufacturing environment, including preventive, predictive, corrective, outage, and breakdown maintenance, ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and company standards.

• Develop, mentor, and hold the maintenance organization accountable, establishing clear goals, expectations, and performance standards aligned with plant and business objectives.

• Partner closely with Operations and Engineering to align maintenance strategies with production goals, support equipment installations, upgrades, and repairs, and minimize unplanned downtime.

• Manage the design, implementation, and improvement of preventive and predictive maintenance programs to enhance equipment reliability, availability, and lifecycle cost performance.

• Develop leaders for troubleshooting and root cause analysis of complex equipment failures using structured methodologies (e.g., RCA, 5-Why, FMEA), and ensure lessons learned are institutionalized across the organization.

• Monitor and analyze equipment performance and reliability metrics (e.g., MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance), identifying opportunities for reliability improvements, risk reduction, and cost savings.

• Manage maintenance resources effectively, including manpower, budgets, tools, contractors, and indirect spare parts inventory, to optimize cost, service levels, and operational readiness.

• Ensure identification and alignment of maintenance-related capital projects, including equipment upgrades, replacements, and modifications, from scope development through execution and commissioning.

• Ensur...