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Heavy Equipment Mechanic - Gurdon Lumber
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What they do
A Heavy Equipment Mechanic maintains and repairs heavy equipment like construction vehicles and fire trucks.
$53,837 / year median in Arkansas
+10% projected growth
Job Description
Heavy Equipment Mechanic - Gurdon Lumber
at Koch/Georgia-Pacific in Gurdon, Arkansas, United States
Job Description
Your Job
At Georgia-Pacific, we don't believe that a job is just simply a job. We see each role as a career and a way to advance your skills to not only better your life, but the community as well. Our lumber facility in Gurdon, Arkansas is looking for a Heavy Equipment Mechanic to join their team. This position is an experienced skilled craft role that creates value by performing a variety of duties, which ensure maximum facility uptime to meet production goals. Competitive pay based on experience.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit [1] http://buildgp.
What You Will Do
- Troubleshoot, install, align, dismantle, repair, and maintain improved reliability and up-time
- Use our CMMS to add parts into inventory and enter requisitions
- Work with vendors on parts availability and the best way to get parts
- Order parts and fluids needed to keep equipment going
- Work with mechanical machinery, including the hydraulics
- Change tires, replace hydraulic hoses, and basic maintenance on equipment
- Help meet or exceed production waste and quality goals through a quality maintenance program
- Work in a very fast-paced industrial manufacturing environment while displaying an emphasis on safety, quality, and environmental concerns
- Must be able to work any schedule including overtime, weekends, and be available for on call rotation
- Willing to help train/mentor other mechanics
- You will work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment
- You will maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, to include wearing safety equipment
- Use a computer to complete specific tasks Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- 2+ years of mechanic experience
- Experience troubleshooting on machinery including heavy equipment loaders, forklifts, automotives (trucks, golf carts, 18 wheelers, etc.)
- Experience with hydraulic and pneumatic equipment What Will Put You Ahead
- 2+ years of Heavy Equipment Mechanic experience
- Experience reading and interpreting pneumatic and hydraulic schematics
- Experience troubleshooting HVAC units on equipment
- Experience working with Caterpillar and Cummins engines
- Experience cutting with a torch, welding with an arc welder, and reading tap charts At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs.