Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Continuous Manufacturing Group Operations is seeking qualified professionals to be considered for our Manufacturing Engineer role to support our Dixie Cutlery operations located in Leominster, MA.

Our Team

The Leominster Plant is an integrated Dixie Cutlery products manufacturing operation.

The Manufacturing Engineer role is primarily accountable for the performance and capability of manufacturing assets.

Some responsibilities include monitoring asset KPI's to understand asset performance, providing support to resolve short-term reliability issues, and developing longer-term equipment asset strategies.

You will help to ensure that we meet the challenge of improving at a faster rate than our competition.

We will do this through flawless execution of our reliability asset strategies and development of our employee's knowledge, skills, and abilities.

What You Will Do


* Working with operators and others to ensure all environmental, safety, and business practices are in play and efforts are focused on identifying critical risks within the operation and mitigating the impact of human errors where the highest levels of risk exist.


* Regularly help communicate and connect employees to our vision, priorities, and business objectives.


* Coaching and developing operators to operate equipment and processes safely and efficiently with a focus on stabilizing, and then optimizing, production.


* Working closely with operators and customers to troubleshoot process, quality and equipment issues and evaluate and implement improvement ideas.


* Working closely with shift supervision to identify knowledge / operator capability gaps and provide support in developing / updating operating procedures.


* Leading the Root Cause Analysis process and executing effective corrective actions.


* Developing and implementing comprehensive asset strategies for all assigned assets; to include Operating Envelope, Operator Basic Care/Zone Ownership, Spare Parts / Stocking Strategy Optimization, Condition Based Monitoring, and Predictive & Preventative Maintenance activities.


* Evaluating, approving, and prioritizing equipment repairs and scheduled shutdowns; initiating capital projects as needed.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Experience working in a manufacturing, industrial or military operations environment


* Experience troubleshooting, commissioning, and / or improving manufacturing equipment and processes


* Experience with manufacturing equipment set-up, operation, or repair

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's degree or higher in an Engineering or other relevant technical discipline


* Experience working in a pulp/paper/tissue mill or converting


* Experience working with automated packaging equipment, conveyor & vision systems and/or robotics


* Experience initiating and/or executing capital projects


* Experience with PI or other data histo...