Reliability Manager

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Reliability Manager to lead our maintenance team at our Albion, MI facility. This is a high-impact role for a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced, technically complex manufacturing environment.

About the role

The Reliability Manager is a key leader for the corrugated facility, responsible for improving the corrugated facility’s manufacturing performance through machine availability via improved equipment reliability.

Our Team

The team at Albion specializes in corrugated sheet operations. We work together on developing contribution-motivated team members that share our vision and values. We empower our team to apply the company’s risk philosophy in making decisions. Our one-team approach challenges the status quo and builds an environment where everyone can learn freely and not be afraid to ask for help.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an effective predictive and preventive maintenance strategy
• Foster a safe work environment, ensuring the maintenance team is practicing “best safe work practices”, and leading the identification and mitigation of all work hazards for the jobs performed prior to work commencing
• Collaborate with operations leaders to ensure equipment/asset availability that will best meet customer requirements
• Direct the supervision of all plant maintenance functions involving equipment, buildings, systems, and grounds to include electrical, mechanical, plumbing, pipe fitting, and welding
• Prioritize work orders for maximum value creation and machine uptime
• Coach, mentor, and assess performance of team to increase optimal results
• Hold the team accountable for performance, including schedule adherence and quality of work (i.e., repairs, rebuilds, and installs performed in a precision manner)
• Lead and facilitate operational and cultural changes with positive results

Requirements

• Previous experience in a leadership role in a manufacturing/industrial environment OR military leadership role
• Experience with financial analysis in relation to costs
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

Qualifications

What will put you ahead:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering
• Previous leadership experience in corrugated, pulp/paper, or packaging industries
• Continuous improvement experience and/or education
• Knowledge of equipment servicing, planning/scheduling, mechanical and electrical maintenance, and plant/project engineering
• Experience utilizing a computerized maintenance management system
• Experience establishing and/or administering a Predictive/Preventive Maintenance program and tracking results
• Knowledge of PLCs, drives, servos, motors, and instrumentation

Pay

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. Compensation is determined by available market data, 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.

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.

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement
• Paid vacation/time off, educational assistance
• 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.

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 the 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. Our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.