Product Developer – Retail Towel and Napkin

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Product Developer - Retail Towel and Napkin for our Technical Center in Neenah, WI.

This is a position within the Retail Towel and Napkin team where you will drive product design and new product innovation.

This opportunity will allow you to combine your technical expertise, leadership skills, creativity, and entrepreneurship to have a direct impact on business performance.

If you have a passion for connecting technical solutions with business and consumer needs, this could be the right opportunity for you!

What You Will Do


* Designing, experimenting, evaluating, and executing alternative solution based on understanding of technical capabilities, consumer/customer unmet needs and market trends


* Connecting market and consumer needs to product design, performance, alternatives, and setting technical specifications/limits on final product design


* Work with business stakeholders, consumer research and technology platform to collaborate on successful execution of experimental development or commercialization projects.


* Mitigating technical risk by designing and analyzing experiments, coordinating, and conducting mill trials, and collecting consumer/market feedback on product designs


* Developing Intellectual Property through the creation of invention disclosures, patent applications and trade secrets by partnering with the Legal team


* Solving complex problems, by exercising critical thought and approaching data analysis and potential recommended paths forward with a creative and open-minded approach


* Providing technical advice on claims, data substantiation, 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 Paper Science, Engineering or at least 5 years of product development experience in paper products


* Willing and able to travel an average of 25%


* Experience working in an R&D environment with demonstrated results independently leading projects or experiment, product development activities, and scaling up to commercial feasibility.


* Technical knowledge of papermaking and converting of both structured and nonstructured

What Will Put You Ahead


* Advanced Engineering Degree (M.S.) in Engineering, Paper Science, or business


* Experience in project management


* Experience in towel/napkin product development or converting


* Experience with SAP (PLM/MDG)


* 5 plus years of experience in product development

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 geogr...