Job Description
Your Job At Georgia-Pacific, we don't believe that a job is just simply a job. We see each role as a career and a way to advance your skills to not only better your life, but the community as well. Our plywood facility in Gurdon, Arkansas is looking for a Heavy Equipment Mechanic to join their team. This position is an experienced skilled craft role that creates value by performing a variety of duties, which ensure maximum facility uptime to meet production goals. Competitive pay based on experience.
Our Team Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit .
What You Will Do - Troubleshoot, install, align, dismantle, repair, and maintain improved reliability and up-time
- Use our CMMS to add parts into inventory and enter requisitions
- Work with vendors on parts availability and the best way to get parts
- Order parts and fluids needed to keep equipment going
- Work with mechanical machinery, including the hydraulics
- Change tires, replace hydraulic hoses, and basic maintenance on equipment
- Help meet or exceed production waste and quality goals through a quality maintenance program
- Work in a very fast-paced industrial manufacturing environment while displaying an emphasis on safety, quality, and environmental concerns
- Work overtime, weekends, and be available to take call-outs
- You will work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment
- You will maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, to include wearing safety equipment
- Use a computer to complete specific tasks
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)- 2+ years of mechanic experience
- Experience troubleshooting on machinery
- Experience with hydraulic and pneumatic equipment
What Will Put You Ahead - 2+ years of Heavy Equipment Mechanic experience
- Experience reading and interpreting pneumatic and hydraulic schematics
- Experience troubleshooting HVAC units on equipment
- Experience working with Caterpillar and Cummins engines
- Experience cutting with a torch, welding with an arc welder, and reading tap charts
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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.
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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.
Job Tags
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