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Maintenance Trainee - Batavia, NY

Georgia-Pacific | Batavia, NY, United States

Posted Date 9/05/2024
Description

Your Job

Are you a self-motivated individual with Maintenance Experience? Then we have the job for you. Georgia-Pacific is seeking a safety-oriented individual to join our team as a Maintenance Trainee at the Batavia NY Facility. This position creates value for the facility by performing preventative and corrective maintenance leading to increased uptime and reliability, thus helping the facility to meet their production and quality goals.

Our Team

Our Industrial Maintenance Mechanics work in a hot, humid, dusty, and noisy industrial environment. This is a 3rd shift position (11pm-7am). You must also be able to work holidays, weekend, and overtime hours as needed.

Salary

For this role, we anticipate paying $28.00 hour (starting wage) with $1.50/hr shift differential for 3rd shift and plenty of opportunity for advancement.

What You Will Do

  • Working with and assisting on shift maintenance technicians
  • Perform preventative maintenance procedures and identify potential downtime and problem areas on the machine
  • Assist in troubleshooting, and repairing equipment in compliance with plant codes, policies, and procedures.
  • Repairing and maintaining plant machinery in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals and manufacturer specifications.
  • Responding to maintenance issues throughout the plant.
  • Adhering to all plant safety and environmental guidelines, policies and procedures and actively participating in the safety program.
  • Repairing, installing, adjusting/aligning, and testing industrial machinery and mechanical equipment using hand and power tools and various test equipment; to include but not limited to shafts, sprockets, bearings, fans, cylinders (pneumatic and hydraulic), valves, belts, pulleys, seals, fasteners, chains, drives, gearboxes, pumps, etc.
  • Working closely with maintenance and production to find solutions to everyday issues on the machines
  • Effectively communicating work performed and equipment statuses both written and verbally.
  • Operating hoisting and lift devices, man lifts, forklifts and other support equipment as required.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Mechanical maintenance experience.
  • Experience troubleshooting issues with bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes and conveyors.
  • Experience performing precision maintenance and utilizing precision maintenance instruments; micrometer, dial indicator, and laser alignment.
  • Experience performing predictive and preventative maintenance.
  • Computer skills for record-keeping and documentation functions.
  • Experience in the growing field of automation.

What Will Put You Ahead

  • A minimum of five (3+) years of maintenance mechanic experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
  • Completion of a Mechanical apprentice program or Technical Diploma or higher in Industrial Technology.
  • Experience in a fast paced manufacturing setting
  • Experience working in the corrugated industry.

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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