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Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Alabama, Pennington
Sep 30, 2025

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor to play a vital role in the reliability and efficiency of the Utilities Department at the Naheola Mill in Pennington, AL. This leadership position is key to ensuring continuous plant operations by managing a team of Mechanical Technicians responsible for executing all planned, unplanned, and outage-related maintenance activities. Reporting directly to the Mechanical Maintenance Area Leader, this role is essential in minimizing downtime and supporting the mill's overall production goals.

This is primarily a day shift position; however, candidates must be flexible to work overtime, evenings, and participate in a weekend duty rotation approximately 6-7 weekends per year, including one holiday.

Our Team

The Naheola Mill is the largest employer in the community and actively supports community outreach, workforce development, and education. The area offers excellent outdoor activities, including world-class hunting and access to the Tombigbee River for fishing, boating, and water skiing. Residents enjoy a mild climate, low cost of living, and proximity to the Gulf Coast's beaches and resorts.

As part of Koch, Georgia-Pacific is a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. We also operate a major recycling business. With over 30,000 employees in more than 150 locations, we're committed to meeting customer needs with quality products and continuous innovation

What You Will Do

  • Lead, supervise, and direct the work process of up to 13 hourly team members
  • Ensure 100% compliance 100% of the time to OSHA, Georgia-Pacific, state, and federal standards and accounting practices for all equipment and work in the assigned area.
  • Assist Operations team with weekly schedule priorities
  • Providing leadership, technical support, and direction to the Mechanical technicians
  • Driving safety and compliance excellence through effective work execution, personally modeling safe behaviors.
  • Holding hourly employees accountable for improving the site safety performance.
  • Partnering with Operations and Planners to ensure feedback from work execution is updated in CMMS
  • Ensure all team members complete required training materials
  • Promoting and supporting a transformational culture in maintenance with operations that supports an Ownership Based Work System
  • Ensuring Safe Work Practice compliance (Safe Permits, Save My Life tools)
  • Supporting area routine outages to ensure planned maintenance work is completed in the outage window.
  • Perform GEMBA walks in the areas to improve employee engagement and maintenance performance

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Three or more years of work experience in industrial mechanical maintenance
  • Supervisory/management experience with responsibility for direct reports
  • Experience with GBX rebuilds, bearing installations, and precision maintenance
  • Experience with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
  • Proficient using Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
  • Experience maintaining and troubleshooting mechanical systems

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Associate degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering/Technology
  • Maintenance experience in fully integrated pulp and paper facility
  • Experience maintaining, calibrating, programming, and troubleshooting hydraulic systems
  • Experience with precision alignment equipment
  • Experience with SAP

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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