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Reliability Manager

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Tennessee, Cleveland
Jul 21, 2025

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific, LLC is now hiring a Reliability Manager for our Cleveland, TN Corrugated facility. The ideal candidate will be a self-driven individual with a passion for excellence in Safety, Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing, and Customer Focus.

Our Team

The team at Cleveland, TN specializes in full box-making operations, where they support the self -actualization of their employees. The Cleveland facility located between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Cleveland is a stone's throw from Great Smokey Mountains and Nantahala National Park for those who are outdoor enthusiasts. This position provides opportunities for promotion in Cleveland and many other Georgia-Pacific and Koch facilities across the country. Join our team! To learn more about this facility and our Packaging division, please visit: www.gppackaging.com

What You Will Do In Your Role

  • Foster a safe work environment, ensuring the maintenance team is practicing "best safe work practices", and leading the identification and mitigation of all work hazards for jobs performed prior to work commencing.
  • Develop and implement an effective predictive and preventive maintenance strategy for all facility assets.
  • Collaborate with operations leaders to ensure asset availability that will best meet customer requirements.
  • Direct the supervision of all plant maintenance functions involving equipment, buildings, systems, and grounds to include hands-on electrical, mechanical, hydraulics, pneumatics, and corrugated box making troubleshooting.
  • Prioritize work orders for maximum value creation and asset up-time.
  • Coach, mentor, and assess performance of team to increase optimal results.
  • Hold the team accountable for performance, including schedule adherence and quality of work (i.e. repairs, rebuilds, and installs performed in a precision manner) Leading and facilitating operational and cultural changes with positive results.
  • Accounting by managing monthly maintenance costs to meet plan spend goals.

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements:

  • Previous experience in a leadership role in a manufacturing/industrial environment OR military leadership role
  • Previous experience with financial analysis in relation to costs
  • Previous experience utilizing a computerized maintenance management system
  • Previous experience establishing and/or administering a Predictive/Preventive Maintenance program and tracking results
  • Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Corrugated Experience
  • Previous experience working within a Union environment
  • Previous experience and knowledge of industrial electrical to include PLCs, drives, motors, and instrumentation
  • Previous experience and knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems
  • Continuous improvement experience and/or education
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering
  • Previous experience and knowledge of equipment servicing, planning/scheduling, mechanical and electrical maintenance, and plant/project engineering

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 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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