Manufacturing Engineer - Water Treatment

Your Job

The Georgia-Pacific Wauna Mill is looking for a Water Treatment/Wastewater Treatment Manufacturing Engineer to join the team in Clatskanie, Oregon.

The overall responsibility of the Manufacturing Engineer is to develop and implement deliberate improvement opportunities within the Water Treatment Department, focusing primarily equipment operating envelopes, equipment reliability, asset strategies, and energy cost.

Our Team

This position is part of the Woodyard/Water Treatment leadership, having daily interactions with operators as well as corporate and industry subject matter experts.

This position reports to the Area Leader - Water Treatment & Woodyard.

What You Will Do


* Develop specific goals and plans to prioritize asset strategy


* Providing timely and relevant information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates to aide in knowledge and challenge processes.


* Staying up-to-date technically and apply new knowledge to the job to develop personal and organizational capabilities for greater value creation.


* Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize and accomplish work.


* Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts from Pi or other sources of data and transfer it into relevant and useful information for knowledge sharing to identify value creation opportunities.


* Supporting current and future transformational initiatives.


* Engaging Corporate/Industry SMEs to leverage utilization of both existing and future technology.


* Monitoring and optimizing key process indicators


* Working with capital engineering to evaluate potential upgrades for long-term sustainability


* Optimizing chemical and energy costs through analytical analysis and process balances

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's degree in engineering OR 3+ years of experience operating/supervising in a Water Treatment/Wastewater Treatment Facility


* Experience performing data analysis


* Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word (to write business correspondence), Excel (for use of spreadsheets, reporting, simple formulas) and Outlook


* Experience utilizing a maintenance management/CMMS system (i.e.

SAP, Maximo)

What Will Put You Ahead


* Leadership experience in a manufacturing environment


* Experience in identifying, leading, developing and implementing improvement initiatives


* Experience with feedwater systems, water treatment, and/or wastewater treatment operations

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 geographic location.

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