Millwright (Maintenance & Trades)

Full Time

  West Fraser Timber Co Ltd

  Blackshear, Georgia, United States

Job Details

Description

West Fraser operates several sawmills across the U.S. South and a Corporate office in Germantown, Tennessee. The business has approximately 3,200 employees and twenty-two  plants in the U.S..  West Fraser is a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of West Fraser Timber Co. LTD., Canada.

Required skills:

  • Repair and maintain industrial equipment to include conveying systems, major machine centers such as debarkers, canters, gang saws, and edgers

  • Able to read and understand drawings and printed instructions

  • Must be a self-starter who can work safely under high pressure situations

  • Possess basic understanding in line ups of pumps, sheaves, sprockets, machine centers

  • Must be able to move machinery and equipment, using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks

  • Adjust tension on nuts and bolts, or position parts, using hand tools and measuring instruments, to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts

  • Align machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs

  • Assemble and install equipment, using hand tools and power tools

  • Lay out mounting holes, using measuring instruments, and drill holes with power drill

  • Replace defective parts of machine or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts

  • Level bedplate and establish centerline, using straightedge, levels, and transit

  • Dismantle machines, using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other hand tools

  • Attach moving parts and subassemblies to basic assembly unit, using hand tools and power tools

Other Requirements:

  • Must have High School Diploma or GED

  • Requires own basic tools

  • Must be safety orientated and comply with ZES

  • Must have minimum two years verifiable work experience as a Millwright

  • Must have welding experience (GMAW and/or SMAW)

  • Must have cutting Torch experience (Oxygen/Acetylene)

  • Must be able to work night/day shift

  • Must successfully complete pre-employment drug screen, physical, reference check and background check

Benefits:

  • West Fraser offers competitive benefits including, medical, dental, life insurance, disability, and 401-k savings plans.

  • WF also provides off site training to improve skills & pay.