Georgia-Pacific creates long-term value by using resources efficiently to provide innovative products and solutions that meet the needs of customers and society, while operating in a manner that is environmentally and socially responsible, and economically sound. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world`s leading manufacturers and marketers of building products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose and related chemicals. The company employs more than 30,000 people at approximately 300 locations in North and South America.

Georgia-Pacific is currently hiring for an experienced Reliability Manager at our Corrugated Sheet Facility located in Oshkosh, WI. The ideal candidate will be a self-driven individual with a passion for excellence in Safety, Manufacturing, Customer Focus and Employee Development.

The Reliability Manager is responsible for improving the facilitys manufacturing performance by developing its people, processes and machinery. This is accomplished by reducing machine downtime and unscheduled maintenance through improved equipment reliability. An effective preventative and predictive maintenance program is expected, along with productivity improvements as a result of utilizing process tools and knowledge of system capability. Specifically, the program focuses on value creation measured by improved equipment reliability to maximize manufacturing productivity.

The Reliability Manager will also be responsible for:

Safety & Culture
Fostering an environment where safety is a Value not just a Priority through enforcing a safe work environment and ensuring maintenance personnel are practicing best safe work practices; performance of behavior based safety observations for the entire plant on a weekly basis; and creating and articulating a vision that is in line with the plants overall vision, and to help achieve a future state.

Primary Duties
Managing, developing and holding a staff of 4 maintenance technicians accountable for performance.
Working with operations leaders to ensure that the equipment meets required specifications.
Directing the supervision of all plant maintenance functions involving equipment, buildings, systems and grounds to include electrical, mechanical, plumbing, pipe fitting, and welding.
Takes ownership of the results of the people, processes, and equipment that impact the reliability of the operation while fully utilizing the maintenance resources.
Developing and implementing a predictive and preventive maintenance strategy to include operator basic care
Engaging with crews and supervisors on a weekly basis, within each department, to ensure that each department is focusing on the performance of the people, processes and equipment.
Prioritizing work orders for maximum value creation and machine up-time.
Assessing and improving talent in the maintenance department.
Use and knowledge of CMMS-Computerized maintenance management system.
Managing of a budget and accountability of equipment parts inventory.
Technical, electrical, and mechanical skills capable of assessing machine conditions.

Additional Duties
Developing cohesive teams between the operations and maintenance groups to improve reliability.
Deep diving and analysis of downtime for each capital asset to include the facility.
Use of analytical thinking, problem solution and root cause analysis skills throughout the performance of duties.
Generation of work orders/work requests, open and complete work orders from the Maintenance Performance System.


Required Qualifications:

High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
A minimum of 5 years` experience in heavy industrial/manufacturing environment as a Maintenance Reliability Manager.
Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word (to write business correspondence), Excel (for use of spreadsheets, reporting, simple formulas) and Outlook (for internal and external correspondence).


Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree or higher
Programming Logic Controller (PLC) experience.
Experience in Capital Budgeting; capital project management; as well as the experience with budgeting for the maintenance department.
Previous experience within the corrugated packaging industry.


Salary and benefits commensurate with experience.
We are an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V
Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.