Manufacturing Engineer

Your Job

Join the team at Georgia-Pacific's Dixie® Continuous Manufacturing Group, where we are committed to delivering long-term value through our Principle Based Management™ philosophy.

We are seeking a skilled Manufacturing Engineer to enhance the effectiveness of our operations by focusing on reliability, process improvement, equipment performance, and team development.

Our Team

The Jackson Plant is part of the Dixie® brand plates and bowls paper products manufacturing operation.

We are proud to safely manufacture quality products that have a competitive advantage and solid growth within the marketplace.

We create a work environment that attracts, engages, and retains the best people.

Our technology is state of the art, and we will bring the best team together to deliver for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Jackson community.

What You Will Do


* Create a safe workplace with all environmental, safety, and business practices with emphasis on identifying and mitigating critical risks to achieve zero SIFs.


* Provide leadership to improve performance in the areas of safety, environmental compliance, customer satisfaction, organizational effectiveness, cost management and asset utilization in your associated technology center.


* Assist in communicating and connecting employees to our vision, priorities, and business objectives.


* Work with Gate Keeper to evaluate, approve, and prioritize equipment repairs and scheduled shutdowns utilizing the Asset Maintenance Work Process.


* Coach and develop the capability level of our reliability technicians, lead technicians, and technicians to reliably operate equipment and processes.


* Work closely with shift performance coaches, lead technicians, technicians, and customers to troubleshoot processes, quality, and equipment issues.


* Lead root cause analysis process and execute effective corrective actions.


* Lead and participate in transformational improvement efforts.


* Regularly help communicate, articulate, and direct departmental priorities to achieve company visions.


* Apply Discipline Operations strategy for managing continuous improvement of product systems and processes leading to product improvement.


* Provide feedback to the facility leadership team on manufacturing work process gaps and results.


* Develop and implement comprehensive asset strategies for all assigned assets; to include Operating Envelope, Operator Basic Care/Zone Ownership, Spare Parts / Stocking Strategy Optimization, Condition Based Monitoring, and Predictive & Preventative Maintenance activities.


* Mentor and support area leaders with daily manufacturing work process execution and transformation efforts.


* Effectively apply the challenge process; coach initiative owners to urgently escalate issues that are prohibiting the delivery of initiative results.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Minimum of 3-5 years of direct experience in man...