Manufacturing Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Foodservice Solutions division is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for its Janesville, WI facility.

Our Manufacturing Engineers are responsible for ensuring the performance and efficiency of production assets across the plant.

As an essential member of the operations staff, this role involves monitoring asset KPIs to assess their effectiveness, supporting the resolution of short-term reliability issues, and developing long-term strategies for equipment management.

The successful candidate should approach work with a business-owner mindset, excel at problem-solving, and be eager to collaborate with others to enhance manufacturing assets and streamline production processes.

This position is part of the Operations Team, reporting to an Operations Manager, and will work closely with technical engineering, maintenance execution, and various corporate teams.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Foodservice Solutions division operates four facilities that produce plastic packaging products under the Anchor Packaging and Panoramic brand names.

Three facilities are located in northeast Arkansas (Jonesboro, Paragould, and Marmaduke) and one is in Janesville, WI.

These manufacturing locations support the supermarket, foodservice, retail, and food processing industries through the production of high-quality rigid containers, sheet, and related packaging products.

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

The Janesville facility is focused on building capability across the workforce through structured training, discipline operation, and continued investment in our employees' development.

What You Will Do


* Develop and implement comprehensive asset strategies for all assigned assets; to include operating envelope, operator basic care, parts strategy, optimization, condition-based monitoring, and predictive & preventative maintenance activities.


* Lead efforts to improve asset performance and reliability with regards to safety, environmental compliance, quality, utilization / efficiency, and cost effectiveness.


* Work with operators and maintenance to identify critical equipment hazards and mitigate the impact of human error where the highest levels of risk exist.


* Communicate with and help employees connect to our vision, priorities, and business objectives.


* Support operations teams with coaching operators on safe equipment operation, operator basic care, operating parameters, equipment changes / upgrades, and best practices.


* Work closely with operators and customers to troubleshoot process, quality and equipment issues and evaluate and implement improvement ideas.


* Work closely with shift supervision to identify knowledge / operator capability gaps and provide support in developing / updating operating procedures.


* Lead the Root Cause Analysis process and execute effective corrective actions.
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