Process Engineer - Entry Level

Your Job

The Entry-Level Process Engineer supports safe, reliable, and efficient operation of a Kraft linerboard facility by analyzing process performance, troubleshooting production issues, supporting improvement projects, and helping optimize quality, cost, throughput, energy, and environmental performance.

This role works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Environmental, Safety, and Engineering to learn mill systems and deliver practical solutions.

Our Team

Georgia Pacific Toledo is one of four containerboard manufacturing sites within our Packing & Cellulose division.

The team is currently comprised of 480+ dedicated employees.

They are also a recycling leader in the Northwest United Sates.

The Toledo Mill is located within a 10-minute drive to the Pacific Ocean (Newport, OR), 1 hour west of Corvallis, OR, and offers many local outdoor activities including fishing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and boating.

What You Will Do

• Monitor process data from pulp mill, paper machine, stock preparation, chemical recovery, utilities, wastewater, and finishing areas to identify trends, losses, and improvement opportunities.

• Troubleshoot production, quality, reliability, and environmental issues using engineering principles, data analysis, and structured problem solving.

• Support optimization of furnish quality, refining, drainage, basis weight, moisture, chemical usage, steam, water, energy, and machine efficiency.

• Participate in mill trials, audits, root cause investigations, and follow-up actions to improve safety, quality, productivity, cost, and reliability.

• Create and maintain process documentation, operating guidance, process flow diagrams, balances, dashboards, reports, and technical summaries.

• Partner with operators and supervisors to understand constraints, improve process control, and reinforce consistent operating practices.

• Support projects through scope development, data collection, cost justification, commissioning, and performance validation.

• Work in alignment with safety standards, environmental requirements, quality systems, and regulatory expectations.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Paper Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical field.

• Interest in manufacturing, process optimization, pulp and paper operations, and hands-on technical problem solving.

• Ability to analyze data, interpret trends, draw conclusions, and recommend practical actions.

• Basic understanding of process safety, environmental compliance, process control, statistics, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, and unit operations.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; willingness to learn mill information systems, data historians, control systems, and reporting tools.

• Ability to work in an industrial environment and build effective relationships with hourly and salaried team members.

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