Manufacturing Engineer - Bleach Plant

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products division is recruiting for a Bleach Plant Manufacturing Engineer in the Kraft Mill at the Wauna facility located in Clatskanie, OR.

The role is responsible for increasing the effectiveness of the asset group by improving reliability, work processes, equipment performance, and team member capabilities.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Wauna Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region.

With more than 850 employees, Wauna strives to lead the tissue, towel and napkin business.

Our team recently invested more than $150 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do


* Improving reliability of Kraft Mill assets by leading the development, implementation, and execution of asset strategies for the bleach plant, R8 ClO2 generator and associated equipment.


* Facilitating root cause analysis process for equipment failures and/or losses.

Ensuring that plans are developed and executed to address the root cause (check/adjust asset strategy).


* Leading daily operations of equipment by developing operating targets, ensuring KPIs are met, equipment setup is correct, assisting operators with troubleshooting, identifying cause of gaps to plan and developing plans to close gap.


* Managing changes made to the chemical process safety covered areas to ensure safe operations.


* Collaborating with other departments such as Environmental, Maintenance, Reliability, Process Control and Paper Machines to ensure assets meet safety, environmental, quality, productivity, and cost expectations while maintaining efficient operations.


* Facilitating the outage planning process to ensure that plans are in place to safely execute work.


* Improving longer term asset performance by understanding the business, mill, and department visions and identifying area needs to meet those objectives.


* Prioritizing opportunities and developing a plan to create capability including potential capital and non-capital opportunities, and leading or participating in capital project scope development, engineering, execution, and startup.


* Providing technical expertise on bleach plant and chemical prep assets and transferring knowledge to other members of the operating team via daily interaction and formal/informal skill building.


* Developing Standard Procedures and building capability of technicians to competently perform tasks following the procedures.


* Working with process control and technicians to implement automation/advanced controls to minimize technician interaction and reduce process variability

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Engineering experience in a manufacturing, industrial or military environment.


* Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies.


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