Process Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is hiring a Process Engineer to join our team in Janesville, WI.

This position will provide strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operating objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost.

The successful candidate will focus on safely improving productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement.

Our Team

The Panoramic Production Facility in Janesville, WI is home to roughly 160 employees who take pride in being a leading manufacturer of thermoformed rigid plastic products.

As part of Georgia-Pacific Food Service Solutions Group, 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.

What You Will Do


* Identify, develop, and lead product design projects to drive continual improvements in the areas of growth, expansion, and production capacity


* Interact with tooling engineering and manufacturing engineering groups to validate product manufacturability


* Develop performance specification and testing methodology to define and validate product performance


* Interact with sales and customer contacts to define product requirements, specifications and functional requirements based on market or customer specific needs


* Define and manage development and commercialization timelines.

Communicate project timelines with business unit product managers, sales, customers, and manufacturing


* Work with tooling engineering and operations engineering teams to define manufacturing strategy and capital plans required for product implementation.


* Coordinate prototyping activities, manufacturing trials and lab testing on products and prototypes


* Maintain and update project reporting documentation.

Participate in regular organizational project update meetings


* Coordinate new product startups in the manufacturing plants and work with process engineering, plant staff and customers to validate product performance and customer acceptance


* Establish set-up and processing parameters based on material and machine capabilities


* Develop molding procedures to ensure consistent processing of product on all shifts


* Monitor and review daily production efficiencies with Production Manager on machine/process to ensure consistent processing


* Serve as the technical liaison between product engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, and sales

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related technical field


* Experience in process engineering in a manufacturing or industrial environment


* Experience leading troubleshooting efforts and/or continuous improvement initiatives

What Will Put You Ahead


* Experience in the...