Manufacturing Engineer - Woodayrd

Your Job

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

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

position reports to the Area Leader - Pulp Mill, Woodyard, and Water.

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


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


* Staying up-to-date technically and applying 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 transferring it into relevant and useful information for knowledge sharing to identify value creation opportunities.


* Supporting current and future transformational initiatives.


* Engaging Corporate/Industry SME's 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)


* Engineering experience working with mechanical system operations (rotating equipment, valves, conveyors, pumps etc.) in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.


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


* Experience working with a CMMS system (ex: SAP, Maximo, GCSS-Army, etc).

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Paper Science and Engineering.


* Pulp & Paper or Sawmill experience.


* Experience training, mentoring and developing others directly or indirectly.


* Experience using data and process analytics tools such as PARCview and PI Vision.

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