TAD Manufacturing Process Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is recruiting for a TAD Manufacturing Process Engineer to join our Structured Papermaking 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 have a strong capability to work with both hourly and salary employees.

This would include 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 does require domestic travel on a regular basis.

This role will be based out of one of our facilities in Clatskanie, OR (Wauna); Zachary, LA (Port Hudson); Crossett, AK; Palatka, FL; Green Bay, WI; or Neenah, WI (Neenah Technical Center) with 50% travel between those sites and occasional 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.

What You Will Do


* 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


* Provide technical and professional support and mentoring for hourly and salaried engineering and operations personnel both at local facilities and within the corporate engineering team


* 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

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* 5+ years combined experience in manufacturing leadership role(s) supporting structured paper making (TAD, eTAD, QRT, NTT, UCTAD) operations


* Knowledge and expertise in specific paper making equipment and process areas including but not limited to: yankee steam systems, hot air systems, formation an...