Assistant Reliability Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is seeking an Assistant Reliability Manager to help lead and execute the mill's reliability strategy in support of safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations.

This role will work closely with the Reliability Manager and mill leadership to improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, strengthen asset strategies, and create long-term value through Koch's Principle Based Management® framework.

The successful candidate will provide leadership for reliability engineers, condition monitoring resources, and cross-functional improvement efforts while partnering with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Planning to drive sustainable reliability results.

This role requires a principled, contribution-motivated leader who demonstrates integrity, humility, stewardship, knowledge sharing, transformation, and principled entrepreneurship while helping others apply their talents where they can create the most value.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Toledo produces brown paper used to manufacture cardboard and is a recycling leader in the Pacific Northwest.

The mill operates in a fast-paced, continuous manufacturing environment producing linerboard and corrugated medium.

Located near the Oregon Coast, Toledo offers access to fishing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, boating, and many other outdoor activities.

What You Will Do

• Support and help execute the site reliability strategy, asset management initiatives, and long-term reliability improvement plans.

• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and development for reliability engineers, vibration analysts, lubrication technicians, and other reliability resources.

• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Planning to improve equipment reliability and reduce production losses.

• Assist in the development and optimization of preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.

• Lead and facilitate equipment failure investigations, root cause analyses, and defect elimination efforts.

• Monitor equipment health data and use reliability analytics to identify bad actors, evaluate risk, and prioritize improvement opportunities.

• Support vibration analysis, lubrication excellence, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and other predictive maintenance technologies.

• Develop and publish reliability performance indicators, asset health metrics, and program effectiveness reports.

• Collaborate with maintenance teams to ensure reliability findings are converted into high-quality corrective work.

• Provide reliability input for capital projects, major equipment repairs, outage planning, and design-for-reliability initiatives.

• Support equipment criticality assessments, asset strategies, and long-range replacement planning.

• Promote safe work practices by identifying risks, applying critical controls, and ensuring compliance with mill safety and environmental expectations.

• Apply Koch's Principl...