Environmental Engineer (Water)

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified professionals to consider for the Environmental Engineer (Water) at our containerboard mill located in Toledo, OR.

The Environmental Engineer provides leadership and strategic direction to the mill's environmental programs; helping align mill and regional water strategies, drive performance improvement through efficient, effective, and sustainable management systems, and ensuring leaders and employees are equipped to manage water responsibilities as well as the mill's other environmental compliance programs.

This position reports to the mill Environmental Manager and creates value for the organization by ensuring compliance is maintained and risk is identified and mitigated.

Long-term value is created through the application of our Principle Based Management ™ business philosophy.

Our Team

Our Toledo facility is an integrated mill that manufactures containerboard, including unbleached linerboard and corrugating medium that is converted into corrugated boxes and packaging at numerous box plants on the West Coast from Washington to California and New Mexico.

The packaging is used for a variety of products such as fruit, vegetables and seafood; consumer goods such as tissue, paper products, packaged food and beverages.

The GP Toledo mill is the largest recycler of wastepaper (used cardboard boxes) in Oregon at over 500,000 tons recycled annually.

To learn more about Georgia-Pacific's packaging business please visit: www.gppackaging.com and view the video How Paper Is Made !

What You Will Do


* Provide leadership and strategic direction related to the mill's water programs consistent with our Stewardship & Compliance Principles to achieve our Vision


* Develop and maintain an evergreen point of view of environmental risks, priorities, key issues, and strategic plans as it pertains to the mill and regions water program


* Lead and support the mill's environmental permitting efforts and track emerging environmental issues


* Fulfill regulatory compliance obligations in a disciplined manner that leverages technology enablers, common processes, and best practices from across the enterprise


* Systematically drive the water environmental programs to be more resilient, effective, consistent, verifiable, and efficient (structured and principled vs.

rule based)


* Build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including regulatory agencies


* Coordinate and oversee offsite contractors and consultants, as needed, to maintain environmental obligations


* Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of mill processes and their impact on environmental performance which allows the facility to enable our operations teams to meet their environmental obligations


* Lead compliance with requirements of the various regulations including but not limited to NPDES, SPCC, SARA, Stormwater (SWPP)


* Coordinate compliance monitoring and sampling event...