Your Job
We are currently seeking an experienced Reliability Technician for our Gypsum facility in Sweetwater, Texas. The Reliability Technician ensures the safety, reliability, maintenance, and performance of production assets. This position creates value by ensuring the reliability of the equipment to help meet and exceed the facility's goals for quality and production. This will be done through providing technical support for ongoing maintenance problems, new equipment, and project inspection/commissioning in accordance with plant policies and procedures.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific’s building product business is consistently amongst the nation’s top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers. Our employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit http:www.buildgp.com.
Compensation: $36/hr. depending on experience
Schedule: Primarily day shift, with overtime weekends and Holidays as needed.
What You Will Do
- Utilize physical strength to lift, push, pull, and maintain equipment and tools
- Working at different heights, with potential tasks performed in standing, sitting, lying down, crouched, or kneeling positions.
- Perform monthly vibration routes
- Provide technical support for ongoing maintenance problems, new equipment, and project inspection/commissioning.
- Developing and implementing plans to improve reliability based on findings from investigations
- Determining the appropriate corrective actions for each situation, such as replacing equipment or implementing new safety procedures
- Need to be available for call outs as needed
- Analyze and identify potential causes of equipment failure to prevent future problems
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Minimum of three (3) years of hands-on experience in a related vibration monitoring and calibration field
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience in using aligning tools and vibration analyses
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience using a computerized maintenance management system such as MOE, MP2
- Ability to perform physical tasks including bending, stooping, moving between different levels, lifting objects up to 50 lbs. from ground level, manually transporting loads up to 75 lbs., and applying up to 100-foot pounds of torque
- Basic computer skills such as Microsoft Office
What Will Put You Ahead
- Degree in engineering, maintenance, or related field
- Certificate of Level 1 or Level 2 Vibration Analysis
- Prior Gypsum experience
- Experience managing an MOC process.
- MP2 experience
- Experience using Microsoft Project
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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
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