Maintenance Manager -Plywood

About the role

The Maintenance Manager will lead the maintenance team at the Georgia-Pacific Prosperity, South Carolina plywood manufacturing facility. This role is critical for advancing reliability, asset performance, and continuous improvement within a safety-focused, batch manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead as a safety steward and culture champion: prioritize employee health and safety in all processes and decisions while driving a positive, reliability-focused culture that maximizes engagement, ownership of equipment condition, and alignment with our organizational philosophy to achieve business objectives.
• Develop and lead a diverse hourly workforce: motivate and grow team members through continuous-improvement practices and collaborative leadership, leveraging varied backgrounds and expertise to increase engagement, accountability, and operational performance.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of equipment used in manufacturing and ensure disciplined execution of preventive, predictive, and precision maintenance to improve reliability.
• Manage workforce schedules to promote efficiency, improve maintenance effectiveness, and maximize the reliability value of all maintenance hours.
• Participate in daily planning and scheduling meetings to support work order prioritization and proactively identify, plan, and execute reliability-improving work.
• Own and optimize the site’s maintenance strategy, including preventive, predictive, and precision maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.
• Lead root cause analysis and failure elimination efforts to address chronic losses and improve asset performance.
• Ensure discipline in CMMS utilization, including work order quality, backlog management, and PM compliance.
• Partner with operations leadership to improve equipment uptime, throughput, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
• Lead planning and execution of major maintenance outages, rebuilds, and reliability-driven capital improvements.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of supervisory experience in maintenance.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel and the ability to learn production and maintenance reporting applications.
• Proven track record in predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance improvement initiatives that improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Ability to drive a reliability culture and ensure all assets remain in a precision state and support long-term operational performance.
• Strong analytical skills, root cause problem-solving capability, and troubleshooting expertise, including hydraulic systems.
• Strong oral and written communication skills that build teamwork and drive results.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in engineering, industrial management, or a related field; applicable military experience is also considered.
• Certification as a Maintenance Reliability Professional.
• Experience in manufacturing wood products or similar industrial environments.
• Experience in manufacturing methods, continuous improvement processes, and reliability-focused maintenance systems.

Skills

• Leadership and team management skills.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and equipment.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement plans.
• Paid vacation/time off.
• Education assistance.
• Additional benefits such as ADD, adoption assistance, and infertility assistance.