Reliability Engineer - Utilities

Your Job

The Reliability Engineer 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

The Leaf River Cellulose Mill is a large paper plant, north of New Augusta, Mississippi.

They produce filter grade pulp and market pulp, which is used in the manufacturing of coffee filters, vacuum cleaner bags, automotive filters, printing paper, tissue paper, and coated paper.

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 scope, and aids in the execution and tracking of outage workloads.

Work with others to improve the outage processes.


* Help develop strategic investment portfolio for the area based on performance gaps and ensure projects are initiativ...