Maintenance Leader: Utilities and Outage

Koch • Brunswick, GA

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About The Position

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Utilities and Outage Maintenance Leader for its Brunswick Cellulose facility. The role leads maintenance and reliability for the mill’s recovery, power, recausticizing, and waste-treatment operations and owns the mill-wide outage-planning process. The leader works with operations, engineering, procurement, and maintenance to improve equipment reliability and deliver safe, predictable, and cost-effective outages.

The Brunswick Cellulose facility is an integrated fluff pulp mill with a woodyard, fiber line, three paper machines, waste-treatment plant, and utilities operations. The mill is located near downtown Brunswick, Georgia, approximately one hour from Jacksonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia.

The role builds maintenance and asset strategies, improves maintenance planning and reliability practices, manages outage and maintenance resources, and develops accountability across the teams involved in mill operations and maintenance.

Requirements

• Experience leading maintenance or reliability improvement in a continuous-process manufacturing environment.
• Experience planning and executing major outages, turnarounds, or complex maintenance events.
• Experience applying preventive and predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis, equipment criticality, and reliability-improvement methods.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system or enterprise asset-management system for maintenance planning, scheduling, prioritization, and performance reporting.
• Experience managing maintenance or outage budgets, contractors, priorities, and scope changes while working across operations, maintenance, engineering, and procurement.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or a related technical field.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification.
• Experience in pulp and paper, chemical processing, power generation, or another asset-intensive continuous-process industry.
• Experience with high-pressure boilers, recovery boilers, turbine-generators, power-distribution systems, recausticizing equipment, or waste-treatment systems.
• Demonstrated success leading major outages with strong safety, schedule, cost, startup, and reliability outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance and reliability for recovery, power, recausticizing, and waste-treatment operations.
• Lead mill-wide outage planning and execution, including scope, priorities, schedules, material and contractor readiness, startup, and post-outage review.
• Build and execute maintenance and asset strategies to improve safety, equipment reliability, availability, operating stability, and lifecycle cost.
• Strengthen planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment criticality strategies, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action closure.
• Partner with operations and engineering to identify equipment risks and prioritize repairs, outage work, and long-term capital or replacement needs.
• Manage maintenance and outage budgets, forecasts, contractors, scope changes, and performance measures while maintaining safety, environmental, and equipment-integrity standards.
• Build capability and accountability across supervisors, planners, crafts, engineers, contractors, and operating partners through visible field leadership and disciplined execution.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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