Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified professionals to consider for their Maintenance Superintendent position to support its Gypsum Wallboard Plant in Sweetwater, TX. The Maintenance Superintendent will help lead and support preventative and predictive maintenance programs, provide technical support for troubleshooting to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiencies. Establish metrics, goals, and benchmarks that drive excellence through promoting continuous process improvement, employee involvement, ownership, and accountability while aligning and optimizing the manufacturing enterprise in delivering value to the business. Facilitate team development and growth, employee skill development, problem-solving and resolution, building employee commitment and ownership and holding employees accountable.

Georgia-Pacific has opened a new $285 million state-of-the-art gypsum mill in Sweetwater, TX. This location combined with the existing plant provides more than 1 billion square feet of gypsum products each year! This is an exciting opportunity to work in a technologically advanced facility in a world-class Market-Based Management culture.

• Drive safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability.
• Proactively identify hazards and implement the appropriate mitigating strategies based on the risk involved.
• Monitor the quality of craftwork and provide direction to crew members to maximize efficiency.
• Clearly explain the scope of daily milestone expectations to employees when assigning work.
• Support the scheduling and planning of daily work.
• Assist with troubleshooting production issues.
• Provide safety training to crew members, coaching, team development, and performance management.
• Data entry and completing/generating reports.
• This position also works with engineers and operation team members to understand their maintenance needs for daily work and shutdowns and then provides necessary resources to meet those needs.

• An Associate Degree in engineering or engineering technology OR - five (5) or more years of Manufacturing, Industrial or Military experience.
• Experience using the following Microsoft Office Software: Excel - (sorting data, creating tables and creating graphs); Outlook - (scheduling tasks, calendar invitations and general professional correspondence); Word - (document creation/editing); PowerPoint - (presentation creation/editing); and Project (creating a project plan, adding tasks, resources and milestones).

• Bachelor degree or higher in Engineering.
• Five (5) or more years of General Maintenance experience working within an industrial/manufacturing operation.
• Experience with implementation of precision maintenance.
• Five (5) or more years of work experience specifically within maintenance supervisory positions - with responsibility for direct reports.
• Leadership/supervisory experience in a manufacturing operation with focus on Mechanical and Reliability Maintenance.
• Experience with manufacturing methods and continuous improvement processes.
• Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Manufacturing System (CMMS).
• Knowledge of maintenance best practices and approaches utilized in a manufacturing environment.
• Familiar with OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) and Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).
• Proven ability to build and align a team around a shared vision.