Area Reliability Director

Your Job

Join Georgia-Pacific as an Area Reliability Director, providing strategic reliability leadership across multiple corrugated plants.

In this role, you will partner with plant and business leaders to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), equipment availability, maintenance effectiveness, and long-term asset health.

You will establish consistent reliability practices, remove barriers to execution, and build the technical capabilities needed to deliver safe, reliable, and sustainable performance.

Our Team

Our team builds competitive advantage through disciplined asset strategies and reliable execution.

We align operations, maintenance, engineering, and capital resources around safety, compliance, equipment performance, and long-term value creation.

We are committed to developing people, sharing best practices across sites, and continuously improving how we operate and maintain our assets.

What You Will Do



* Safety and compliance: Champion a culture in which employees identify, communicate, and address risk; reinforce personal ownership; and support full compliance with applicable requirements, including a goal of zero Notices of Violation (NOVs).


* Reliability leadership: Provide technical and strategic direction for site reliability and maintenance processes, remove barriers to execution, and help plant leaders embed effective practices into daily operations.


* Strategic planning: Develop and support site-specific one-year and three-year reliability tactical plans that improve equipment availability, reduce recurring losses, and advance world-class reliability practices.


* Design for reliability: Partner with Capital and Project Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, maintainability, operability, and life-cycle considerations into equipment installations and upgrades.


* Maintenance optimization: Improve preventive, predictive, precision maintenance, and lubrication strategies; strengthen work management; and support forward-looking equipment replacement plans.


* Performance improvement: Use OEE, downtime, maintenance, and asset-health data to identify opportunities, prioritize resources, and verify that corrective actions deliver sustained results.


* Capability building: Coach plant leaders and reliability professionals, share standards and best practices across sites, and develop the technical capabilities required for long-term success.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Experience in plant, operations, maintenance, or reliability leadership within a manufacturing environment.


* Working knowledge of preventive, predictive, and precision maintenance, lubrication excellence, and related reliability programs.


* Experience assessing and improving mechanical and electrical reliability.


* Experience implementing reliability and maintenance processes, establishing standards, and driving consistent execution.


* Demonstrated ability to build, lead, influence, a...