Your Job Georgia-Pacific in Wheatfield, IN is currently hiring for a Maintenance Technician. 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! Compensation: $32.87/hour Schedule: 12-hour rotating shifts that include weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed Location: This position will be located in Wheatfield, IN. Relocation assistance may be available.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
- Troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining industrial machinery
- Installing and aligning new equipment
- Performing periodic maintenance routines including lubricating machine tools and equipment for improved reliability and uptime
- Maintaining accurate maintenance logs including labor hours and critical preventative maintenance findings
- Working with the operations and maintenance teams to identify and prioritize maintenance needs
- Helping meet or exceed production and quality goals while optimizing equipment to reduce waste
- Adhering to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies and procedures and actively participating in the safety program
- Assisting in the development and implementation of reliability centered maintenance strategies
- Application of simple problem-solving methods such as 5Y to reduce and eliminate failures
- Working in a hot, humid, cold, dusty, and noisy industrial environment
- Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations including wearing PPE
- Ability to work weekends, holidays, rotating shifts, and overtime when needed
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- 2+ years of mechanical maintenance experience OR a combination of experience and maintenance technical degree
- Experience with rotating equipment installation/alignment, alignment of couplings, bearings and pumps, lubrication experience
- Experience troubleshooting and repairing hydraulic and pneumatics systems
- Experience troubleshooting issues and making repairs on bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, conveyors, etc.
- Experience with reading and understanding mechanical drawings
What Will Put You Ahead
- Associates degree or two (2) years of study from a technical college in the fields of Industrial Maintenance or Industrial Technology
- Five (5) or more years of mechanical millwright experience in an industrial environment
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