Maintenance Manager -Plywood

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an innovative and results-driven Maintenance Manager to lead our maintenance team at the Prosperity, South Carolina plywood manufacturing facility. This role is critical to advancing reliability, asset performance, and continuous improvement within a safety-focused, batch manufacturing environment aligned with our Principle-Based Management (PBM®) philosophy.

The Maintenance Manager will provide strategic leadership to optimize safety, compliance, reliability, quality, production, and cost performance. The successful candidate will drive reliability-centered maintenance practices, strengthen equipment health, improve planning and execution, and lead the maintenance team in delivering operational excellence.

• 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.

• 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