Maintenance Technician - Gurdon Lumber
KochAbout the role
Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is now hiring for a Maintenance Technician at our Lumber facility in Gurdon, Arkansas. This position is an experienced skilled craft role that creates value by performing a variety of maintenance duties, ensuring maximum facility uptime to meet production goals. At Georgia-Pacific, we don’t believe that a job is just simply a job. We see each role as a career and a way to advance your skills to not only better your life, but the community as well.
Our ideal Technician is a self-motivated, skilled hourly professional with a working knowledge of mechanical and electrical troubleshooting and a solid foundation in the skills needed to properly maintain manufacturing equipment. This position is a vital resource for our ongoing success and productivity, and we are interested in learning more about you!
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury-free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit http://www.buildgp.com.
What You Will Do
- Troubleshoot, install, align, dismantle, repair, and maintain industrial machinery and mechanical equipment for improved reliability and uptime
- Work with machinery and mechanical equipment including motors, pneumatic & hydraulic components, conveyor systems, and production line equipment
- Read diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and manufacturer’s specifications for installations
- Use hand tools, power tools, and precision-measuring devices and testing instruments
- Use a cutting torch and weld with an arc welder
- Troubleshoot issues with bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, and conveyors
- Adhere to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and procedures
- Must be willing and able to work any shift, overtime, weekends, and holidays as required
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Must have at least two (2) years of experience of maintenance experience in industrial, manufacturing, or military environments
- Experience troubleshooting and repairing hydraulics and pneumatics
- Experience reading technical drawings and schematics
- Experience using a computer including typing/sending emails and using a mouse
What will Put You Ahead
- Experience working in the lumber or plywood industries
- Two (2) year mechanical or industrial maintenance degree
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 amou
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