Mechanical Design Engineer

Your Job

Are you passionate about exploring new ideas and breaking through conventional norms? At Georgia-Pacific, we share your enthusiasm for pushing boundaries and embracing creative solutions.

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

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to support the Dixie® business with a focus on Dixie® plates, the #1 paper plate in the market.

It is a great opportunity to solve complex consumer problems by combining creative design solutions with deep understanding of materials and 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



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


* Technology Development: Collaborate with internal and external technology partners to develop and implement new tooling design, pressed paper manufacturing, and substrate technologies into product roadmaps across lab, pilot, and commercial scales.


* 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.


* Risk Management: Design and execute experiments to understand and mitigate technical risk of new products by considering market feedback plus manufacturing capability.


* 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 Mechanical Engineering


* Experience creating 3D parts and drawings in Solidworks, AutoCad Inventor, or Pro/Engineer


* Product development exp...