Maintenance Manager

Georgia-Pacific - Plattsburgh, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Plattsburgh, NY

Wood Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Facility Maintenance Manager at Georgia-Pacific's Plattsburgh tissue manufacturing site is responsible for leading the maintenance team to enhance maintenance and reliability strategies. This role is crucial for improving the facility's manufacturing performance and competitive position, ensuring a safe work environment, and fostering effective relationships with operations leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead Maintenance personnel in the paper manufacturing and converting areas.
• Develop and execute maintenance and reliability improvement strategies for the facility.
• Improve all aspects of maintenance and reliability efforts to enhance manufacturing performance.
• Support the vision of creating an incident-free environment.
• Provide leadership and direction around company rules, policies, and procedures.
• Coach and mentor maintenance staff, removing barriers to performance.
• Interact closely with Operations leadership to maintain effective customer relationships.
• Drive precision maintenance and root cause analysis initiatives.
• Achieve excellence in metrics and best practices regarding reliability improvement.
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve plant and equipment availability.
• Assist with recruiting, hiring, and retaining maintenance technicians.
• Support training and development of Operating Technicians in basic maintenance tasks.

Requirements

• Five (5) or more years of experience working with reliability systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience facilitating root cause analysis activities.
• Leadership experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Performance management experience, including coaching and managing.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering.
• Experience with computerized maintenance management systems.