Maintenance Planner

Koch • Brunswick, GA

11d • Onsite

About The Position

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a motivated, detail-oriented Maintenance Planner for its Brunswick Cellulose Mill in Brunswick, Georgia. The role focuses on detailed maintenance job planning and coordination to support the facility, applying Georgia-Pacific’s maintenance workflow process. The successful candidate is organized and knowledgeable about industrial equipment, processes, and procedures, with a long-term continuous-improvement focus on developing systemic, sustainable processes.

The Brunswick Cellulose facility is a large integrated fluff pulp mill with a woodyard, fiberline, three paper machines, waste treatment plant, and utilities operations. The planner supports maintenance shutdowns, daily operations, and annual outages, working closely with mill maintenance crews, contractors, operations, craftspeople, and suppliers. The position also includes rotating weekend on-call duties approximately once per quarter for the entire mill and occasional coverage of other mechanical leaders.

Requirements

• Experience in a manufacturing, production, industrial, or military environment.
• Experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), such as 4site, SAP, or Passport.
• Experience adhering to safety and regulatory compliance requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Maintenance or Reliability experience in the pulp and paper industry.
• Experience with pipe fabrication, torquing, rotating equipment, and pump alignment.
• Experience with Passport Asset Suite CMMS.
• Experience tracking purchase orders from generation through invoicing.
• Experience planning and managing outages or shutdowns.

Responsibilities

• Provide detailed planning and materials procurement for maintenance shutdowns, daily operations, and annual outages, particularly in major areas.
• Develop and manage maintenance plans using Microsoft Project and the AssetSuite CMMS, keeping Bills of Materials, specifications, and other information current.
• Support mill maintenance crews and contractors during shutdowns and outages, coordinating and scheduling mechanical maintenance work efficiently.
• Collaborate with craftspeople, operations, contractor representatives, and materials suppliers to facilitate communication and workflow.
• Create detailed Job Hazard Analysis documentation, follow Georgia-Pacific permitting and procedures, and demonstrate safety practices by example.
• Perform rotating weekend on-call duties approximately once per quarter for the entire mill and occasionally cover responsibilities of other mechanical leaders.
• Balance break-in and scheduled work with urgency and discipline, develop a weekly work forecast, and identify and develop maintenance outage work in a timely manner.
• Apply economic and critical thinking to ensure maintenance spending delivers long-term value for the product system and mill.
• Encourage ownership among mechanics and operators and help develop their capabilities while working with Area Leaders to prioritize work.
• Assist with manpower optimization, share insights with Reliability Coordinators and Planners, maintain Planning Board metrics, and explain performance weekly and monthly.
• Coordinate and manage outage parts, rentals, and contractor needs by submitting requisitions and tracking their progress.
• Submit Major Expense Project requests for parts or contractor services as needed.
• Create and validate Standard Maintenance Procedures and/or Model Work Orders with detailed execution instructions and compliance requirements.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, and disability coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Paid vacation and time off.
• Educational assistance.
• May include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance, subject to eligibility.

What This Job Offers

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