Senior Engineer – Paper

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Senior Engineer providing technical expertise and optimizing paper-making assets across Georgia-Pacific’s North American manufacturing facilities. Diagnosing issues, leading improvements, and supporting new technology trials.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical expertise to paper-making assets across Georgia-Pacific’s North American facilities
  • Diagnose root causes of operational issues
  • Lead and assist local resources in resolving issues
  • Identify improvement opportunities through site assessments
  • Develop expertise in others and maintain knowledge of emerging technologies
  • Work with production-site personnel to identify process and equipment improvements
  • Review maintenance and downtime data to identify equipment requiring repair, replacement, or reconfiguration
  • Coordinate and lead efforts to restore asset performance to optimized base case
  • Support installation, commissioning, and optimization of new assets
  • Help asset owners manage and prioritize improvement opportunities
  • Develop standardized operating and maintenance strategies with subject matter experts and operations personnel
  • Provide technical support and mentoring to engineering and operations personnel
  • Assist with planning outage activities
  • Support short-term technical requests across multiple facilities
  • Support trials of new process technology and equipment and assess applicability to existing assets
  • Travel domestically on a regular basis

Requirements:

  • 10-year combined experience in manufacturing/engineering role(s) supporting paper making operations
  • Knowledge and expertise in one or more of: headbox operations, yankee steam systems, hood systems, formation, sheet handling, pressure rolls, and machine clothing
  • Able to read and interpret P&IDs, layout drawings, and mechanical drawings
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, communicate with, and mentor others in a manufacturing environment
  • Strong communication skills and ability to build relationships at all organizational levels
  • Willing and able to travel 50%-70% of the time
  • Willing and able to work occasional weekends, nights, and holidays when needed
  • Willing and able to wear required PPE at production facilities
  • Willing and able to work in environments with platforms, catwalks, elevated temperatures, and variable humidity
  • Tissue papermaking experience is a plus
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Pulp and Paper Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field is preferred
  • Demonstrated team/group facilitation experience is preferred
  • Career progression within Paper Operations, preferably tissue and towel, is preferred
  • Proven capability of leading through influence and working with large cross-functional teams is preferred
  • Some offers may be conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test
  • Employer uses E-Verify

Benefits:

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Health savings accounts
  • Life insurance
  • Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid vacation/time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Infertility assistance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Individualized work environment support