Mechanical Maintenance Planner

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Planner to join our Brewton, AL containerboard mill.

The Mechanical Maintenance Planner has responsibilities for site maintenance activities associated with event preparation and planning, field execution coordination, and post-event closeout.

Overall, this role is to support the Site in all event phases providing technical leadership to ensure occupational safety, fostering team alignment, and integration of resources.

You will be responsible for the efficient and cost-effective execution of maintenance and production services.

We are looking for a team player who is ready to help transform our current planning process.

Our culture is defined by the Principle-Based Management™ philosophy which guides everyday decision making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create.

Our Team

The Brewton mill is in south central Alabama about an hour from Mobile, AL, Pensacola, FL, and the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast.

The team is made up of 450 employees who produce white top linerboard and solid bleached sulfate (SBS) paperboard.

The SBS material is used to make GP's Dixie plates.

White top linerboard is used in production of corrugated containers and displays.

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

To learn more about our Bleach Board Division, visit www.gppackaging.com

What You Will Do



* Plan work/ develop job scopes in assigned areas using best-in-class methods (i.e.: field walk-downs, detailed step-outs, BOMs, flange tracking, estimating, pictures, sketches, drawings, long text descriptions, templates) to enable the craft to fully understand the scope of work, execute safely and efficiently.


* Support events assigned during all phases including Pre, Execution, and Post.

During the execution phase of events, transition to Field Execution Coordinator as deemed necessary.


* Ensure that vendors understand the importance of project timelines and expectations.


* Manage the unplanned workorder backlog by reviewing backlog and planning list.


* Creating job packets as needed which include job plans, technical documentation (photos, drawings, technical specifications, etc.).


* Communicate early and often on issues, opportunities, and solutions appropriately.


* Participate and support logistic plan development for each event.


* Develop, pursue, and communicate innovative ideas/solutions to support progressing our competitive advantage, creating superior value, and driving waste elimination (safety, improving reliability, higher yields, lower cost, improving performance, etc.).


* Promote and nurture an innovative culture that makes the application of PBM™ through the five dimensions and our values as an underlying foundation for conducting business.

Physical Requirements:



* Ability to work in hot, cold,...