Plant Controls Engineer - Gypsum (Savannah, GA)

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Gypsum is seeking a Plant Controls Engineer to serve as the site technical authority for process control and industrial automation systems at our Savannah, GA facility.

This role is intentionally designed as a plant-embedded engineering position, not a pure controls developer role.

The successful candidate will initially function similarly to a Plant Engineer with controls specialization, owning system reliability, safety, lifecycle decisions, and capital execution.

Over time, this role is expected to grow into broader technical leadership.

This position has direct impact on safety, reliability, cost reduction, and production availability.

The successful candidate will be provided a $5,000 signing bonus 120 days after starting the new role.

External candidates and internal Koch company employees moving to the new location when hired are considered eligible.

Our Team

At Georgia-Pacific, we don't believe that a job is just simply a job.

We see each role as a career and a way to advance your skills to not only better your life but the community as well.

What You Will Do

Plant Ownership & Reliability:


* Act as the site technical authority for process control, instrumentation, and automation systems.


* Support production operations through hands-on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and system optimization with a focus on reliability and availability.


* Evaluate existing control systems and make risk-based recommendations for upgrades, replacements, or standardization.


* Balance technical rigor with real-world production, safety, and maintenance constraints.

Project Engineering & Leadership:


* Lead controls and electrical scope for capital and expense projects, including project definition, design, procurement, construction support, and commissioning.


* Develop engineering deliverables such as functional design specifications, control narratives, electrical drawings, and construction documentation.


* Prepare project cost estimates and execution plans.


* Provide technical leadership to contractors, system integrators, and internal resources, ensuring quality and standards compliance.

Controls & Automation Systems:


* Design, implement, and maintain electrical and control system architectures.


* Participate in PLC, HMI, and SCADA development as needed, with emphasis on system integrity and long-term maintainability rather than routine programming.


* Serve as an escalation point for complex controls issues involving PLCs, HMIs, drives, networks, and servers.

Leadership Development & Collaboration:


* Develop strong partnerships with production, maintenance, and engineering teams to identify improvement opportunities.


* Mentor and support electricians, technicians, and less-experienced engineers.


* Partner with corporate engineering teams to align with standards, share lessons learned, and evaluate new technologies.


* Support site safety prog...