Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified professionals to consider for the Manufacturing Engineer position at our Crossett, AR facility.
The Manufacturing Engineer will work in our Retail Tissue Converting department on activities related to tissue converting and report to the Tissue Converting Leader. The ideal candidate for this role will possess the ability to challenge the status quo to facilitate continuous improvement; collaborate across roles and diverse groups, gather and share feedback; stay current in best practices and be a continuous learner; plan and manage routine and annual outages for asset bases; have strong communication, presentation, planning and organizational skills; ability to multi-task and prioritize; excellent interpersonal and communication skills; strategic thinking skills; analytical problem solving skills - ability to troubleshoot and solve process and equipment reliability opportunities.
Our Team
The Georgia Pacific Mill located in Crossett, AR provides a safe, modern community at the heart of some of the finest hunting, fishing, and wildlife locations in the South, yet is a short drive to shopping, food, and entertainment centers and within hours of major urban centers.
What You Will Do
- Ensure excellence in the areas of process safety management. Create and lead an environment where the team achieves zero incidents in Environmental, Health and Safety.
- Lead the implementation of complete asset strategies and facilitate zone ownership strategy and operator basic care execution by transferring ownership to operators and technicians to operate, maintain and improve assets.
- Lead the effort to identify, investigate, recommend, and implement equipment improvements, new systems and process changes that will improve productivity, yield, quality and/or reduce cost and waste.
- Execute and optimize Georgia-Pacific reliability and asset strategies for assigned assets. Provide technical expertise and transfer knowledge to operators/technicians and Converting Technical Leader. Work with support personnel to resolve short term reliability issues.
- Provide strategic and tactical leadership in the areas of safety, asset reliability, cost optimization, quality capability, productivity and strategic capital planning and execution.
- Position team for year-over-year continuous improvement. Interface with Shift Leaders, Skill Developers, Performance Leader, and operators/technicians to identify and address knowledge gaps. Develop/verify skills of others in the team system.
* Work with tissue converting operators and leaders to improve tissue quality and system-wide throughput. Develop relationship between paper and converting areas of the tissue system
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Five (5) or more years of experience in tissue converting.
- Ability to work in a team-based environment and willingness to put the team first.
- Ability to work with and through others and to challenge the status quo to facilitate improvement.
- Ability to stay current in best practices and be a continuous learner.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering
- * Ten (10) or more years of experience in the specific area of tissue converting.
- Experience applying Root Cause Analysis techniques.
- Previous work experience in a union environment
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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.
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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.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf