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Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking qualified professionals to consider for our Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer opportunity for the paper department at the Wauna Mill located in Clatskanie, Oregon. This position will report to the Product & Process Improvement Leader and will work on the exciting capital rebuild project within the mill.
In this role you will enjoy utilizing your engineering expertise to deliver new installations from concept through completion.
You will also solve problems to improve the safety, reliability, automation, and functionality of existing machine control systems. This position is an excellent opportunity to challenge your technical, organizational, and leadership skills while creating long term value for our operations partners.
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Our Wauna Mill is located on the Columbia River and is centrally located near the beach and mountains with several forms of outdoor recreational activities. The Wauna Mill is within an hour drive to Portland, OR offering regional attractions and forms of entertainment. Georgia-Pacific employees can influence the long-term success of the plant, both in improving the efficiency of production and in helping to build a culture of Market-Based Management. This is a role with potential for advancement both within the plant and across the company. Come join our team!
What You Will Do
- Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation.
- Manage and execute Georgia-Pacific's reliability and asset strategies
- Lead the continuous efforts to identify, investigate, recommend, and implement equipment improvements, new systems, and process changes to improve productivity, yield, quality, and reduce costs
- Driving improvement to operating metrics in all equipment of the work system
- Collaborate with the operations team to build systems to improve productivity, quality, and reliability.
- Exemplify and advance Principle Based Management
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- 3 or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial or military environment
- 2 years or more experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies
- Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word (to write business correspondence), Excel (for use of spreadsheets, reporting, simple formulas) and Outlook (for internal and external correspondence)
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering WITH 3 or more years of manufacturing experience
- 5 or more years of manufacturing experience within a paper or pulp manufacturing operation
- Experience as a supervisor with responsibility for direct reports
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.
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