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Georgia-Pacific's Emporia Plywood facility is now hiring qualified professionals for their Electrical Planner/Scheduler opportunity to support the manufacturing operations at the facility located in Emporia, VA. This is not a remote position and will be required to work onsite at the Emporia plywood mill.

Our Team

What You Will Do

• Ensure maintenance work is planned in a proactive method by ensuring all activities are appropriately scoped, estimated, resourced, and in ready state prior to start of work.
• Support the execution of maintenance work by receiving, planning, estimating and coordinating maintenance work orders.
• Identifies the need for additional resources and communicates needs to Maintenance Supervisor.
• Effectively use the CMMS to develop and maintain the maintenance schedule, manage equipment data, update Bill of Materials (BOM) for assets, and develop standard maintenance procedures (SMP).
• Identifies/recommends opportunities for improvements.
• Maintains essential maintenance records and files.
• Scope work and assess the requirements for routine, planned down day, and annual outage activities.
• Verify the availability of parts, materials and tools required to perform a job prior to execution.
• Create purchase requisitions for contractor labor and support storeroom management efforts.
• Estimate the time and resources required for maintenance activities.
• Engage in the plant's safety culture and be a leader in risk management.
• Become CPR and First-Aid Trained.
• Perform tasks such as lifting (up to 50 lbs.), walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day in a noisy, non-air conditioned or unheated manufacturing plant environment.
• Maintain a strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
• Typical shift is day shift with rotational weekends. May be required to work any shift (up to 12 hours), holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Five (5) or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.
• Experience repairing manufacturing machinery and/or electrical equipment (i.e. pumps, valves, motors, transmitters).
• Intermediate knowledge of PLC/5 and RSLogix 5000 applications.
• Intermediate level knowledge of electrical/electronic circuits and control devices.
• Read and interpret electrical schematics.
• Basic troubleshooting maintenance and application in hydraulic and pneumatic systems, circuits and components.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with MP2 software.
• Two (2) or more years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment coaching, training, and developing staff.
• Experience in coordinating and supervising contractors.
• Experience with planning/scheduling within a manufacturing, industrial or military environment.
• Experience with CAD.

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.

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 visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf