Area Reliability Director

Area Reliability Director - United States - 196237 - Koch

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Area Reliability Director

Location(s)

Atlanta, Georgia

Eligible for remote

Yes

Company

Georgia-Pacific

Career Field

Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Job Number

196237

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Join Georgia-Pacific as an Area Reliability Director, providing strategic reliability leadership across multiple corrugated plants. In this role, you will partner with plant and business leaders to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), equipment availability, maintenance effectiveness, and long-term asset health. You will establish consistent reliability practices, remove barriers to execution, and build the technical capabilities needed to deliver safe, reliable, and sustainable performance.

Our Team

Our team builds competitive advantage through disciplined asset strategies and reliable execution. We align operations, maintenance, engineering, and capital resources around safety, compliance, equipment performance, and long-term value creation. We are committed to developing people, sharing best practices across sites, and continuously improving how we operate and maintain our assets.

What You Will Do

• Safety and compliance: Champion a culture in which employees identify, communicate, and address risk; reinforce personal ownership; and support full compliance with applicable requirements, including a goal of zero Notices of Violation (NOVs).
• Reliability leadership: Provide technical and strategic direction for site reliability and maintenance processes, remove barriers to execution, and help plant leaders embed effective practices into daily operations.
• Strategic planning: Develop and support site-specific one-year and three-year reliability tactical plans that improve equipment availability, reduce recurring losses, and advance world-class reliability practices.
• Design for reliability: Partner with Capital and Project Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, maintainability, operability, and life-cycle considerations into equipment installations and upgrades.
• Maintenance optimization: Improve preventive, predictive, precision maintenance, and lubrication strategies; strengthen work management; and support forward-looking equipment replacement plans.
• Performance improvement: Use OEE, downtime, maintenance, and asset-health data to identify opportunities, prioritize resources, and verify that corrective actions deliver sustained results.
• Capability building: Coach plant leaders and reliability professionals, share standards and best practices across sites, and develop the technical capabilities required for long-term success.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in plant, operations, maintenance, or reliability leadership within a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of preventive, predictive, and precision maintenance, lubrication excellence, and related reliability programs.
• Experience assessing and improving mechanical and electrical reliability.
• Experience implementing reliability and maintenance processes, establishing standards, and driving consistent execution.
• Demonstrated ability to build, lead, influence, and develop high-performing reliability and maintenance teams across organizational boundaries.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives using structured problem-solving methods such as Lean or Six Sigma.
• Willing and able to travel approximately 75% of the time including weekends at times, depending on business needs.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering or a related technical field.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification or a comparable credential.
• Experience in corrugated or paper-based packaging manufacturing.
• A record of improving equipment, processes, and systems beyond original equipment manufacturer (OEM) standards.

THIS ROLE IS NOT OPEN TO VISA SPONSORSHIP

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For this role, we anticipate a base salary of $150,000-$180,000 per year. This role is also eligible for variable compensation, which may be paid as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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 click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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