TAD Process Engineer

Overview

Your Job Georgia-Pacific is recruiting for a Process Engineer to join our Structured Paper making Technology Platform. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise to TAD and eTAD paper making assets across Georgia Pacific’s North America facilities and will work with both hourly and salary employees. This role includes diagnosing root cause of operational issues, leading and assisting local resources in resolution of issues, identifying improvement opportunities through assessments, developing expertise in others, and maintaining knowledge of emerging technologies.

This role requires domestic travel on a regular basis. This position will be based at one of the following facilities:
Wauna, OR;
Zachary, LA (Port Hudson);
Crossett, AK;
Palatka, FL; or Green Bay, WI, with up to 50% travel between sites and occasional travel to other locations.

Our Team

The Georgia-Pacific Projects and Engineering Team consists of approximately 130 individuals across the United States. We are engineers, project managers, subject matter experts, and designers working with our 22 continuous manufacturing facilities to achieve one team, one vision, one result.

• Work with hourly and salaried personnel at production sites to identify improvement opportunities for both processes and equipment through site assessments
• Review maintenance and downtime data to identify production equipment that needs repair, replacement, or reconfiguration
• Coordinate and lead efforts to return asset performance to optimized base case with third party support and internal resources as needed
• Support installation, commissioning, and optimization of new assets
• Assist asset owners in managing and prioritizing lists of improvement opportunities for their respective assets based on business need
• Work with Subject Matter Experts and operations personnel within Georgia Pacific to develop standardized operating and maintenance strategies for similar assets and equipment
• Assist in planning specific outage activities with operations teams to ensure that desired results are achieved
• Apply Subject Matter Expertise to support short-term technical requests across multiple facilities
• Support trials of new process technology and equipment and provide assessment of applicability with existing asset base

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Pulp and Paper Science, Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering
• 3 years of structured base sheet paper machine experience (TAD, NTT, QRT, eTAD, UCTAD, etc.) making tissue or towel in a process engineering, manufacturing engineering or equivalent operations/support roles
• Knowledge and expertise in specific paper making equipment and process areas including but not limited to: yankee steam systems, hot air systems, formation and stock preparation, reeling and sheet handling, pressure rolls, and machine clothing
• Able to read and interpret piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&’s), layout drawings, and mechanical drawings
• Competency with Microsoft Office Suite;
  Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.
• Able to travel up to 50% of the time
• Able to work occasional weekends, nights, and holidays when needed

• Experience using PI Process Book or comparable data historian
• 3 or more years of experience troubleshooting and optimizing PLC and DCS control logic including paper machine reels, machine control systems, and burner management systems
• Experience using Root Cause Analysis strategies – KT, 5 Why, etc.
• Experience in a technical design or service capacity related to tissue or towel paper making

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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