Maintenance and Reliability Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations is seeking qualified professionals to be considered for our Maintenance and Reliability Engineer role to support the energetic team at our new Dixie Products Operations Plant located in Jackson, TN.

If you have a passion around building capability in others, Georgia-Pacific's Dixie-Jackson Manufacturing facility is looking for a Maintenance and Reliability Engineer to help advance our team's capabilities.

This role will work closely with reliability, maintenance, and operations departments to facilitate continuous improvements, safely improving productivity, reducing costs through process/equipment optimizations and operator knowledge and skill improvements throughout the Dixie Jackson facility.

Our Team

The Jackson Plant is part of the Dixie® brand plates and bowls paper products manufacturing operation.

We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

We create a work environment that attracts, engages, and retains the best people.

Our employees help other's and the business reach their full potential, promoting our Principle-Based Management culture to the work they do every day.

Our technology is state of the art, and we will bring the best team together to deliver for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Jackson community.

What You Will Do



* Embrace influential leadership to support the organization while advancing our Principle-Based Management (PBM) culture


* Providing leadership in the achievement of improved performance in the areas of safety, environmental compliance, customer satisfaction, organizational effectiveness, cost management and asset utilization in the packaging and converting operations area


* Evaluate, approve, and prioritize equipment repairs and scheduled shutdowns utilizing the Asset Maintenance Work Process


* Coach and develop operators to reliably operate equipment and processes


* Work closely with operators and customers to troubleshoot process, quality and equipment issues and evaluate and implement improvement ideas


* Lead Root Cause Analysis process and execute effective corrective actions


* Create a safe workplace with all environmental, safety and business practices with emphasis on identifying and mitigating critical risks


* Lead and participate in continuous improvement efforts.


* Maintain necessary departmental records and reports.


* Regularly help communicate, articulate, and direct departmental priorities to achieve mill and company visions.


* Lead the focus on improving long term reliability across the product system


* Understand top priorities and continually build reliability capability in our people, process, and equipment


* Collaborate with the work system team to review and analyze loss analysis and asset tracking data to identify equipment reliability and performance issues (gap analysis) and develop i...