Lubrication Technician

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Start a new career with Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's leading manufacturers of Building Products and Consumer Products. Our Georgia-Pacific facility located in Fort Dodge, IA is seeking a Lubrication Technician .

We anticipate this role starting at $35.34 per hour. We offer full medical and dental benefits, life insurance, a 401K matching program, paid holidays, paid vacation days and paid floating holidays each year.

Lubrication Technicians work in a fast-paced industrial environment that is transforming with technological advancements that make the work environment safer and more efficient. This role will perform various lubrication functions on industrial equipment to support our operations and reliability of industrial equipment.

Shift: 7:00am-3:00pm Monday- Friday with weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed. There may be some flexibility around the shift start and end times depending upon candidate need and business need.

Our Team

Safety is a shared value at Georgia-Pacific, and we walk-the-talk through employee involvement in every facet of our operation. Opportunities for advancement are only limited by your initiative and ability to create value in a business that is solid, growing, and reinvesting in new technologies for enhanced safety, quality, reliability, and employee fulfillment.

The Fort Dodge Gypsum facilities employs approximately 150 individuals in helping Georgia-Pacific as one of the nation's leading gypsum board manufacturers. Georgia-Pacific's building product business is consistently amongst the nation's top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers. Our employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit

What You Will Do

• Responsible for lubrication of equipment assets, maintaining lube room, equipment, and storage
• Work with site personnel to ensure all equipment assets are lubricated with correct lubricant types and quantities, and in the correct intervals
• Collaborate with reliability and planning groups to ensure a preventive maintenance (PM) system is set up to adequately lubricate equipment
• Pulling and processing oil samples, maintain all records pertaining to this process
• Participate in RCA (root cause analysis) process
• Performing all assigned tasks at or above industry standard and document tolerances and other information as required
• Utilize MOE and MP2 to create value-added work requests and prioritize upcoming work assignments
• Maintain auto lube systems
• Applying best environmental practices to all storage, transportation and disposal of all oils and lubricants, containers and residue
• Demonstrates initiative to complete scheduled jobs

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• One (1) year or more of industrial maintenance experience OR training in the maintenance field
• Experience using a computer for record-keeping and documentation functions

What Will Put You Ahead

• Associate's degree or certificate in maintenance-related field
• Experience in maintenance or lubrication technician role
• Experience analyzing equipment component failures, troubleshooting, and recommending preventive maintenance improvements
• MLT-1 certification

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, aqui, or tu).