Product Development Engineer

Your Job

Are you passionate about exploring new ideas and breaking through conventional norms? At Georgia-Pacific, we share your enthusiasm for leveraging engineering and scientific principles to push boundaries and develop creative solutions.

We constantly challenge the status quo, take calculated risks, and strive to improve the products we make.

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Product Development Engineer to support the Dixie® business with a focus on paper-based food service products including Dixie® plates, the #1 paper plate in the market.

It is a great opportunity to solve complex consumer problems by using thorough materials knowledge with an understanding of manufacturing principles.

The position will report to the Neenah Technical Center located in Neenah, WI with hybrid work considered.

Our Team

The Georgia-Pacific Dixie® R&D team is responsible for the technical developments that will allow the Dixie brand to maintain its position as the preferred brand of disposable plates, cups, cutlery and food packaging.

We are entrepreneurs who innovate daily and collaborate cross-functionally to design products and execute projects that create value for our consumers, customers, communities, and company.

We value lifelong learners who want to contribute and grow with us.

Our team is successful because we have self-starters who work collaboratively and leverage the diverse skills across the team to solve complicated problems, which enables everyone to maximize their contributions to business success.

What You Will Do



* Technology Development: Collaborate with internal and external technology partners to develop and implement coating, functional chemistry, and paper converting technologies into product roadmaps across lab, pilot, and commercial scales.


* Design and Experimentation: Design experiments and evaluate alternatives to solve complex problems based on understanding of technical capabilities, business and market needs.


* Consumer Focus: Connect market and consumer needs to product performance by designing alternatives and setting technical specifications on final product design


* Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders, innovation team, consumer research, quality, operations, and our supply partners to drive product/cost improvements by maximizing throughput, minimizing waste, and optimizing products in the portfolio


* Product Support: Provide technical support on product claims, data substantiation, intellectual property, and overall product points of view to our business leaders, operations, manufacturing, sales, and marketing teams

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Paper Science or other physical science


* Product development experience including independently leading technical projects


* Experience working with industrial manufacturing facilities

What Will Put You Ahead



* Five (5) or more years' experience in research, produc...