Operations Maintenance - Gate Keeper [Paper Machine]

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Georgia-Pacific is looking for a Paper Machine Gatekeeper to join our team in Brewton, AL. The Gatekeeper plays critical role in our organization and asset maintenance work process. People in this role work with and through other mill leaders to balance competing maintenance priorities, forecasting spend plans, while focusing on the long-term success of operations within their departments and beyond. The Brewton Mill is an integrated paper mill producing product for Dixie® plates and various GP and external corrugated box facilities. Brewton is located in south central Alabama, about an hour from Mobile, AL, Pensacola, FL, and the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast. To learn more about Georgia-Pacific's packaging business please visit: and view the video How Paper Is Made! 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.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize value creation by managing maintenance and miscellaneous operations spend for the Paper Machine area.
  • Actively participate in Mill Spend Evaluation meetings, presenting the planned and unplanned spend on a weekly and monthly basis.
  • Actively participate in Work Prioritization meetings to ensure proper work is scheduled for execution.
  • Review submitted work requests for need, accuracy, correct accounting codes daily. Convert work requests to work orders and send to planning or execution as needed.
  • Manage existing contracts, invoices, and accruals for correctness.
  • Monitor Work Process Status & Aging dashboards and keep up to date.
  • Effectively manage many high priority tasks / projects with a sense of urgency.
  • Review and follow up on emergency work execution to ensure completeness and if follow up work is required.
  • Manage forecast for Extraordinary Maintenance needs /spend plans as well as baseline spend and full year spend plans.
  • Work with the team to review and analyze loss analysis and asset tracking data to identify equipment reliability and performance issues (gap analysis) and develop improvement plans.
  • Help develop long-term reliability and asset strategies.
  • Collaborate with manufacturing engineers, maintenance team members, and department leaders on critical equipment strategies.
  • Ensure reliability activities are scheduled based on resource availability and priority. Provide technical support on both capital and non-capital projects.

Requirements

  • Experience working within a manufacturing, industrial or military environment.
  • Experience leading and facilitating meetings.
  • Ability to respectively challenge co-workers at all levels of the organization when necessary.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in fast paced 24/7 manufacturing environment, including multitasking and prioritization.
  • Experience using Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook)

Nice-to-haves

  • Operations, mechanical or electrical maintenance leadership/supervisory experience
  • Experience in a pulp and paper manufacturing facility
  • Experience using Asset Suite, Passport, Power BI, Tableau
  • Previous experience as a Gatekeeper, Asset Availability Leader (AAL) or Operations-Maintenance Coordinator (OMC)

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance, ADD, disability
  • Retirement
  • Paid vacation/time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Infertility assistance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
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