Project Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Project Engineer to join our engineering team at the Port Hudson Plant in Zachary, Louisiana.

This role will develop and execute capital and in-house mill projects that improve safety, reliability, maintainability, productivity, and long-term asset performance.

The Project Engineer will lead projects from scope development and estimating through engineering, construction, commissioning, startup, and closeout.

Projects may utilize a combination of mill engineering and maintenance resources, electrical and mechanical crafts, contractors, engineering firms, vendors, and equipment suppliers.

Our Team

The Port Hudson Plant is part of Georgia-Pacific's tissue, towel, and napkin paper products manufacturing operations.

We safely manufacture high-quality products while creating an environment that attracts, engages, and retains talented people.

Our team applies Principle Based Management™ while working together to improve safety, reliability, productivity, and long-term performance for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Zachary and Port Hudson communities.

What You Will Do


* Develop and execute capital and in-house projects from scope development through startup and closeout.


* Develop project scopes, estimates, budgets, schedules, forecasts, and execution plans.


* Manage project safety, cost, schedule, quality, risk, and change.


* Select appropriate execution strategies using in-house resources, contractors, engineering firms, vendors, and suppliers.


* Apply a reliability and maintainability mindset to equipment selection, design, installation, commissioning, and turnover.


* Engage electrical and mechanical crafts early in project development to incorporate field knowledge, constructability, maintainability, accessibility, and lessons learned.


* Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities involving mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, civil/structural, and process systems.


* Manage contractors, vendors, suppliers, and engineering resources to achieve project objectives.


* Coordinate project execution with operations and maintenance to minimize impacts to mill operations.


* Ensure projects are properly commissioned and transitioned to operations and maintenance with required drawings, documentation, spare- parts information, asset data, training, and preventive/predictive maintenance requirements.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's degree in Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and relevant engineering, project, maintenance, construction, or industrial experience.


* Experience working in engineering, projects, maintenance, construction, or operations within an industrial or manufacturing environment.


* Experience developing technical scopes, coordinating work, or executing projects.


* Ability to apply reliability and maintainability considerations to engineering solutions.
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