R&D Research Fellow - Papermaking

Your Job

We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional who is eager to contribute to groundbreaking advancements in papermaking technology and grow with Georgia-Pacific.

Experience in papermaking and innovation pipeline development will enable you to drive impactful projects and contribute to Georgia-Pacific's success.

Join Georgia-Pacific as an R&D Research Fellow at the Neenah Technical Center! You'll play a key role in our innovative papermaking technology development team, driving advancements that will shape the future of our industry!

What You Will Do


* Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation.


* Design, develop, prototype, and test cutting-edge papermaking components, equipment, and machinery.


* Create specifications for new parts or prototypes and identify the best materials and processes to ensure top-notch quality and performance.


* Develop strategies to guide organizational investment decisions through experimentation and landscape studies.


* Analyze and test prototypes to identify weaknesses and improve processes.


* Develop as a Subject Matter Expert in structured papermaking technology.

Get informed by using internal and external resources to proactively seek out best knowledge.

Establish and expand knowledge processes that build networks with our key partners, including Operations, Engineering, Product Development, and Preferred Suppliers to drive transformation within the company.

Participate in troubleshooting, training, and knowledge transfer to provide direction to team members.


* Identify and lead research projects involving papermaking technologies for our manufacturing processes of tissue-based consumer products, leading to new or improved products or machine performance.

Use economic thinking to determine viability, use the scientific method to evaluate, use statistical process control to analyze data, and use written and verbal techniques communicate and document the results and next steps to various groups, including business, leadership and operations in a timely and effective way.


* Translate business priorities into actionable development initiatives.

Identify and coordinate key resources to work as a team to execute project initiatives and experiments that pursue new technology and support business goals.

Proactively address and solve problems and analyze data with a creative and open-minded approach.

Support scale-up trials and troubleshooting within production facilities to eliminate waste, increase productivity, reduce cost, develop future grades and future assets.


* Support the organization through developing Intellectual Property strategies that include landscape investigation, invention disclosures, patent applications and maintaining trade secrets.

Improve current test methods or develop new test methods for characterizing and evaluating various papermaking technologies.

Be creative and think beyond the obvious.


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