Manufacturing Corrugated - Maintenance Manager

Veritiv Corporation • Fullerton, CA

22h

About The Position

Job Purpose: Job Responsibilities: Additional Responsibilities & Qualifications: • Owns all maintenance operations for the facility, including corrugator, converting equipment, utilities, building systems, and material handling. Accountable for uptime, reliability, and response to breakdowns across both sites. • Leads preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs. Builds, enforces, and audits PM schedules tied to OEM specs, failure history, and production demand. Eliminates reactive maintenance as the norm. • Strong electrical and controls oversight. Must understand PLCs, VFDs, drives, motors, sensors, safety circuits, and troubleshooting logic well enough to challenge technicians, vendors, and contractors. Not a desk-only role. • Owns safety in maintenance. Enforces LOTO, arc flash, confined space, hot work, machine guarding, and contractor safety. Conducts investigations for maintenance-related incidents and drives corrective actions. Zero tolerance for shortcuts. • Manages and develops a union maintenance workforce. Assigns work, evaluates skill levels, supports training plans, and holds mechanics accountable to standards, procedures, and behavior. Works within the CBA without hiding behind it. • Controls maintenance spend. Owns budget for labor, parts, contractors, capital repairs, and emergency work. Tracks cost drivers, reduces repeat failures, and justifies capital requests with data, not anecdotes. • Partners with Operations and Production leadership. Aligns maintenance priorities with schedules, outages, and changeovers. Pushes back when production decisions increase risk, downtime, or safety exposure. • Owns parts and inventory strategy. Ensures critical spares are identified, stocked, and audited. Eliminates obsolete inventory while preventing downtime caused by poor planning or shortages. • Leads capital projects and major repairs. Supports installs, rebuilds, and upgrades from scope through startup. Ensures equipment is handed off with documentation, training, and PM plans in place. • Strong systems and documentation discipline. Uses CMMS effectively, maintains accurate work orders, failure data, training records, and compliance documentation. If it’s not documented, it didn’t happen. Work Experience: Education: ● No Education Preferences What We Offer Engaging and inclusive culture with employee-led Employee Resource Groups, Veritiv Cultural Alliance, recognition platform, etc. Extensive training opportunities, professional development programs, career pathing, and mentorship opportunities. Collaborative atmosphere with our customers and suppliers to create healthier, safer and more sustainable communities through our responsible operations and innovative solutions. Healthcare benefits, 401k, paid time off and tuition reimbursement. About Veritiv Together with its subsidiaries, Veritiv is the leading full-service provider of packaging solutions. Veritiv also provides JanSan, hygiene, print and publishing products and services. Veritiv serves customers in a wide range of industries, through team members around the world helping shape the success of its customers. For more information, visit www.veritiv.com and connect with the Company on LinkedIn. Veritiv Corporation, headquartered in Atlanta, Veritiv is a leading provider of design-to-delivery packaging, print, and facility solutions. With a diverse team and global reach, we’re helping businesses cut costs, reduce waste, and improve efficiencies that make doing business easier. For more information, visit www.veritiv.com and connect with the Company on LinkedIn. What We Offer ● Engaging and inclusive culture with employee lead Employee Resource Groups, Veritiv Cultural Alliance, recognition platform, etc. ● Extensive training opportunities, professional development programs, career pathing, and mentorship opportunities. ● Collaborative atmosphere with our customers and suppliers to create healthier, safer and more sustainable communities through our responsible operations and innovative solutions. ● Healthcare benefits and 401k with match start date of hire, paid time off and parental bonding time, tuition reimbursement, annual Profit-Sharing Program and much more! Learn more here.

Responsibilities

• Owns all maintenance operations for the facility, including corrugator, converting equipment, utilities, building systems, and material handling.
• Accountable for uptime, reliability, and response to breakdowns across both sites.
• Leads preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
• Builds, enforces, and audits PM schedules tied to OEM specs, failure history, and production demand.
• Eliminates reactive maintenance as the norm.
• Strong electrical and controls oversight.
• Must understand PLCs, VFDs, drives, motors, sensors, safety circuits, and troubleshooting logic well enough to challenge technicians, vendors, and contractors.
• Owns safety in maintenance.
• Enforces LOTO, arc flash, confined space, hot work, machine guarding, and contractor safety.
• Conducts investigations for maintenance-related incidents and drives corrective actions.
• Manages and develops a union maintenance workforce.
• Assigns work, evaluates skill levels, supports training plans, and holds mechanics accountable to standards, procedures, and behavior.
• Works within the CBA without hiding behind it.
• Controls maintenance spend.
• Owns budget for labor, parts, contractors, capital repairs, and emergency work.
• Tracks cost drivers, reduces repeat failures, and justifies capital requests with data, not anecdotes.
• Partners with Operations and Production leadership.
• Aligns maintenance priorities with schedules, outages, and changeovers.
• Pushes back when production decisions increase risk, downtime, or safety exposure.
• Owns parts and inventory strategy.
• Ensures critical spares are identified, stocked, and audited.
• Eliminates obsolete inventory while preventing downtime caused by poor planning or shortages.
• Leads capital projects and major repairs.
• Supports installs, rebuilds, and upgrades from scope through startup.
• Ensures equipment is handed off with documentation, training, and PM plans in place.
• Strong systems and documentation discipline.
• Uses CMMS effectively, maintains accurate work orders, failure data, training records, and compliance documentation.

Benefits

• Engaging and inclusive culture with employee-led Employee Resource Groups, Veritiv Cultural Alliance, recognition platform, etc.
• Extensive training opportunities, professional development programs, career pathing, and mentorship opportunities.
• Collaborative atmosphere with our customers and suppliers to create healthier, safer and more sustainable communities through our responsible operations and innovative solutions.
• Healthcare benefits
• 401k with match start date of hire
• Paid time off and parental bonding time
• Tuition reimbursement
• Annual Profit-Sharing Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed