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Maintenance Planner - Recovery

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Florida, Palatka
Sep 04, 2025

Your Job

Georgia Pacific has an opportunity for a Maintenance Planner to enhance the maintenance and operations in our Recovery and Utilities area in Palatka, Florida. Create maintenance job plans with a heavy emphasis on reliability, safety, and team efficiency.

Our Team

Georgia Pacific's Palatka Mill is located just south of Jacksonville and west of St. Augustine, FL, the Palatka mill employs about 950 people has six paper machines as well as several converting lines and produces consumer tissue products such as bath tissue and paper towels sold under the Georgia-Pacific brand names of Angel Soft, Quilted Northern, Brawny, and Sparkle.

What You Will Do

  • Developing and managing maintenance plans through Microsoft Project software and the SAP CMMS system, ensuring all information, such as Bills of Materials and specifications, is continuously updated.
  • Supporting mill maintenance crews and contractors directly during maintenance shutdown days and outages, with an emphasis on efficient coordination and scheduling of mechanical maintenance work.
  • Collaborating extensively with craftspeople, operations, contractor representatives, and materials suppliers to facilitate smooth communication and workflow.
  • Enhancing safety through the creation of detailed Job Hazard Analysis documentation incorporated into maintenance plans.
  • Performing rotating weekend on-call duties approximately once per quarter for the entire mill and occasionally covering responsibilities of other mechanical leaders.
  • Applying economic and critical thinking skills with a risk-taking mentality to ensure maintenance spending delivers long-term value for the product system and mill.
  • Encouraging personal ownership among mechanics and operators and fostering the growth of their capabilities while collaborating with Area Leaders to prioritize work.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Three (3) or more years of experience within an industrial manufacturing environment.
  • Two (2) or more years of maintenance planning work.
  • Experience with Microsoft Word (i.e., Job plan write ups), Excel or Project (i.e., data analysis and assembly of charts), PowerPoint (i.e., presenting information to varying audiences, problem analysis, etc.)
  • Monitor and maintain planned and unplanned maintenance work orders.

What will Put You Ahead

  • Leadership experience managing projects OR experience with assigning/delegating work to others
  • Five (5) or more years of experience in the Pulp & Paper Industry in Maintenance or Engineering.
  • Experience in SAP-Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
  • Technical experience with boilers, steam turbines and water systems

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Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

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

Our 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 - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and 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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf

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