Diesel Mechanic

Diesel Mechanic

Location(s) Corrigan, Texas Company Georgia-Pacific Career Field Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Georgia-Pacific's Corrigan Plywood Mill has an opening for a Technician in our Truck Shop. The Truck Shop Technician will be responsible for maintaining all mobile for Corrigan Plywood while using precision maintenance practices

Georgia-Pacific in CORRIGAN, TX manufactures pine plywood panels and siding that are ideal for residential and light commercial construction. GP employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. To learn more about our Building Products division, visit

Key Responsibilities

• Perform preventative maintenance and routine repairs
• Overhaul, rebuild, maintain, inspect, diagnose, and repair one or more systems on a wide range of vehicles or equipment. This could include diesel, gasoline, and other types of internal combustion engines; automatic and non-automatic transmissions; heavy duty drive line systems; and/or hydraulic utility systems and controls
• Work with vendors to price parts, request repair quotes, and place orders
• Use hand tools, power tools, precision-measuring devices, and testing instrumentation to repair and troubleshoot equipment
• Adhere to all safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and procedures
• Work any shift, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of experience with troubleshooting, adjusting, and repairing heavy equipment in a manufacturing and/or automotive environment
• Minimum of five years of experience in preventative and corrective maintenance of large heavy equipment to include front end loaders, man lifts, skid steers, extended boom lifts, forklifts, cranes, and small engines or 5 years of experience as a B level auto mechanic
• Experience using a computer to email, enter data, and create documents
• Experience performing minor welding repairs
• Experience reading electrical and hydraulic schematics/mechanical drawings

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate's degree in automotive technology, Diesel/Heavy Equipment Technology, or another mechanical field
• Experience in other trades such as millwrighting, pipefitting, machining, etc.

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