Job Description
Your Job Are you self-motivated and enthusiastic with a passion for maintenance? Then we have the job for you! Georgia-Pacific is now hiring safety-oriented individuals to join our team as Maintenance Millwrights at our plywood facility in Taylorsville, Mississippi. This role creates value by ensuring machine reliability through troubleshooting and preventative maintenance techniques on industrial plant equipment. This position is a vital resource for our ongoing success and productivity, and we are very interested in learning about you!
This position pays $31.02 per hour.
Our Team Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury-free workplace. Georgia-Pacific's Building Products business is consistently among the nation's top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit .
What You Will Do - Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain industrial machinery
- Install and align new equipment
- Perform periodic maintenance routines including lubricating machine tools and equipment for improved reliability and uptime
- Maintain accurate maintenance logs including labor hours and critical preventative maintenance findings
- Work with the operations and maintenance teams to identify and prioritize maintenance needs
- Help meet or exceed production and quality goals while optimizing equipment to reduce waste
- Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies and procedures and actively participating in safety program
- Be willing to work any shift, on-call, holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed
- Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment
- Work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)- Two (2) years or more of experience working in a mechanical maintenance position within a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
- Experience working with hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Experience using a cutting torch and welding with an arc welder
- Experience troubleshooting issues with bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, and conveyors
What Will Put You Ahead - Experience reading and understanding mechanical drawings
- Experience with precision alignment of motors, couplings, bearings and pumps, and lubrication
- Leadership experience in a manufacturing company with a focus on mechanical and reliability maintenance
- Two (2) year technical degree or higher in Industrial Maintenance Technology or similar program
- Lean Six Sigma certification
- Experience in precision maintenance practices such as lubrication, alignment techniques, and precision measuring
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .
Who We Are As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
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