Reliability Engineer

Your Job

Are you looking for a job where your health, safety, and success are valued? How about an opportunity for advancement, variable pay for performance, job stability, and a supportive team? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

Georgia-Pacific is currently seeking a dedicated Reliability Engineer to join our team at the Wheatfield, Indiana facility. As a key leader, you will play a crucial role in driving our team toward success while maintaining a safe and incident-free environment in our fast-paced plant. With approximately 115 full-time employees, our union facility offers a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Our Team

Our Wheatfield facility has a rich history producing gypsum wallboard for a wide variety of customers. Georgia-Pacific's Building Products business is consistently among the nation's top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com. And, to learn more about our gypsum products, visit www.gpgypsum.com.

What You Will Do

• Create and foster an environment where the team achieves zero incidents in Environmental, Health, and Safety. Lead a safety culture that values risk identification and personal ownership through a principled-based approach.
• Provide strategic and tactical leadership in the areas of safety, asset reliability, cost optimization, quality capability, and productivity. Assist maintenance management in identifying skill-gaps and facilitating the upskilling for maintenance employees. Enable training for precision maintenance practices through identified training opportunities.
• Manage reliability activities to improve equipment availability based on industry best practices for rotating/reciprocating machinery and pressure vessels/piping systems. Lead efforts to identify, investigate, recommend, and implement equipment improvements, new systems, and process changes that will improve productivity, yield, quality, and/or reduce costs.
• Work closely with production, maintenance, contractors, and service teams to understand failure modes and effects and develop mitigation plans; prioritize and develop action plans for our reliability-centered maintenance system. Collaborate with other leaders to develop, prioritize, and execute strategies that improve the site's competitiveness in aspects of plant operating cost, volume, and yield.
• Ensure systems and resources are in place for inspection, restoration, quality assurance, and testing of systems in accordance with regulations and best practices. Coordinate execution of small projects and projects related to equipment reliability improvement.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• A minimum of three (3) years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing or industrial facility.
• Experience in reliability best practices in a manufacturing/industrial environment.
• Effective working knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and ability to learn various PC-based production and maintenance reporting systems.
• Experience utilizing Root Cause Failure Analysis strategies.
• Experience with FMEA to build equipment care strategies.
• Able to read mechanical, structural, and electrical drawings.
• Experience in leading improvement efforts in Maintenance Reliability, and Predictive and Preventive Maintenance.

What Will Put You Ahead

• A Bachelor's Degree or higher in Industrial Management or in a technical field such as Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering.
• Five (5) or more years of maintenance management experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Experience with capital project management and continuous improvement methods.
• CMMS System experience (e.g., SAP, MP2, ActivePlant).
• Vibration training/qualifications.
• Lubrication training / qualifications.
• Certification or continued education in reliability applications, practices, and management.
• Knowledgeable in the areas of PLCs, conveyor systems, breakers, combustion systems, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Experience in welding, machining, industrial design, and equipment rigging.
• Experience managing a site mechanical integrity inspection program.
• Gypsum or building products manufacturing knowledge.

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 amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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 building products, bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet the 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.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.