Mechanical Reliability Engineer (EDP)

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking early career talent for our Mechanical Reliability Engineer (EDP) role in the pulp dryer department at the Leaf River Cellulose Mill in New Augusta, MS is responsible for supporting the area's reliability, efficiency, and production improvements through asset strategy development, root cause analysis, outage scope management, asset health and condition monitoring, and strategic investment.

This role is also a key member for the Dryer department and accountable helping support the team's objectives associated with Environmental, Safety, Quality, culture, personnel while ensuring alignment with the company's management philosophy, Principle Based Management (MBM®) .

This role will report to the area reliability leader and work with them to establish and drive key reliability initiatives focused on driving improvement.

The team is responsible for developing tactical and strategic improvement plans targeting known gaps as identified by the team through asset strategy development, investment, and maintenance repair through area and annual outage planning cycles.

Our Team

Leaf River is a nonunion facility in South Mississippi, just 20 miles from Hattiesburg, with a dedicated workforce of about 320 employees.

For 40 years, the Leaf River team has focused on producing top quality chemical cellulose, custom fibers, and non-woven materials for products like diapers, baby wipes, and coffee filters.

As part of Georgia-Pacific's Cellulose business, Leaf River exemplifies safety, operational, and environmental excellence.

What You Will Do



* Effectively support the mill vision in the development and execution of reliability plans.


* Actively participate in driving a safety culture where employees address unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors and make suggestions for improvements.


* Support Environmental, Health & Safety excellence and operational areas with a focus on reliability improvements.


* Support Lubrication and Vibration Technicians in program execution, including oil analysis, Vibration analysis, new technology implementation, and material procurement.


* Analyze operational targets and equipment costs to identify gaps utilizing data driven analysis for potential improvement solutions.

Collaborate with maintenance, operations, engineering, or others to vet opportunities and/ or execute improvements.


* Work with other Georgia Pacific Reliability subject matter experts (SME) to share knowledge.

Utilize appropriate strategies to improve equipment or operational strategies.

Use GP reliability network to keep current with the latest technology, tools, and best practices.


* Ensure inspections, PMs, and QA/QC methods deployed can identify the damage mechanisms as early as possible.


* Drive a culture of continuous improvement for contribution-motivated employees to ensure a high level of value creation.


* Helps develop and critique outage planning processes, defines outage ...