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Maintenance Manager Plywood - Dudley, NC

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, North Carolina, Dudley
Jul 10, 2025

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Maintenance Manager at our Plywood facility in Dudley, NC. The Maintenance Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and guiding the business goals, plans, and processes for the maintenance department. This leader will use knowledge to develop and carry out objectives, solve problems, and be able to respond to short-term as well as long term department and mill goals.

The successful candidate will provide leadership and direction to the maintenance department to ensure that the mill's maintenance is meeting the objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service. The candidate will lead and support preventative maintenance programs and provide technical support for troubleshooting to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiencies.

Our Team

At Georgia-Pacific, we are innovative, we manufacture products that make people's lives easier, and we provide careers, not just jobs for our employees. We foster a culture that values integrity and compliance more than anything else and we encourage our employees to challenge the status quo. If you are interested in joining our team, you can learn more about our Building Products division at www.buildgp.com.

What You Will Do

  • Foster a safe work environment, ensure maintenance personnel are practicing "best safe work practices", lead the identification and mitigation of work hazards throughout all stages of work execution.
  • Ensure compliance for GP policies and procedures.
  • Collaborate with operations leaders to ensure equipment/asset availability that will best meet customer requirements.
  • Supervise all plant maintenance functions involving mechanical equipment, control systems, power distribution systems, and building facilities to include electrical, controls, mechanical, plumbing, pipe fitting, and welding, HVAC, etc.
  • Enforce an effective predictive and preventive maintenance strategy and storeroom management process.
  • Oversee daily work in coordination with operations for maximum value creation and equipment up-time.
  • Assess technician performance, coach, mentor, and provide guidance and performance feedback.
  • Must be willing and able to work different shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays, as needed in an Industrial Environment.
  • Responsible for the professional development of direct reports and promoting a departmental culture that is aligned with Koch Industries, Inc. Principle Based Management framework.
  • Responsible for managing labor hours, M&C spend, mill annual outages, and reliability advancement.
  • Develop and implement maintenance and improvement strategies while managing within the allotted goals and budgets.
  • Manage workflow processes, planning/scheduling through Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • A minimum of 5 years of experience in the maintenance field in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
  • A minimum of 5 years of supervisory/management experience.
  • Experience in leading improvement efforts in Maintenance, Reliability, Predictive and Preventive Maintenance.
  • Experience using a CMMS system for daily activities.
  • Able to read mechanical, structural, and electrical drawings.
  • Experience utilizing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or other similar problem-solving tools.
  • Experience using MS Office (MS Word: creating, editing, formatting documents, preparing reports and tables MS Excel: creating, modifying spreadsheets, using functions, filters, graphs to analyze data).

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in an accredited academic program.
  • Knowledgeable in the areas of PLC's, conveyor systems, breakers, boilers, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
  • Experience in welding, machining, industrial design, and equipment rigging.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day -to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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