Process Engineer

Description

Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified professionals to consider for Process Engineer roles to support our team in Cedar Springs, GA. These roles will focus on driving improvements across the mill. Process engineers will be assigned and may be rotated through the pulp, recaustization, power, utility, paper machine and recycle areas of the plant to support both development and individual comparative advantages.

The position(s) will require a motivated, organized and detail oriented individual knowledgeable of industrial processes, equipment, and procedures. Successful candidates will have a long-term continuous improvement focus that values establishing systemic processes that are sustainable for the long term. In addition, a degree of flexibility and adaptability will be valuable as the successful candidate will be empowered to drive improvements and close gaps wherever opportunities are found.

These roles are an ideal opportunity for Early Development Professional (EDP) or Leadership Development Program engineers who are ready for the next phase in their career development.

What You Will Do in Your Role

• Understand safe work practices and lead safety by example.
• Lead improvements in our processes for consistent, reliable manufacturing of our containerboard paper grades.
• Work closely with GP’s Collaboration and Support Center (CSC) to build predictive modeling for the operations.
• Look for opportunities anywhere in our processes to improve throughput, eliminate waste, reduce cost, or improve quality.
• Support execution of routine maintenance shutdowns as well as major projects.
• Utilize economic and critical thinking and risk-taking mentality to ensure operating costs are minimized wherever practical.
• Encourage operator technicians to demonstrate personal ownership and fostering the personal growth of their capabilities.
• Collaborate with Area Leaders to prioritize work.
• Maintain and track key metrics and provide explanations for metric performance on a weekly and monthly basis – Uptime, raw material consumption, operating supply usage, and machine speed are examples.

The Basic Experience You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering.
• Two (2) years or more of experience in a manufacturing, industrial or military environment in the areas of operations or maintenance.
• 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 Chemical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Five (5) or more years of work experience in pulp and paper.
• Two or more years of experience in an early development/leadership professional engineering program. 
• Experience developing and implementing improvement processes and projects.

Since 1963, the Cedar Springs mill team has been on a journey to make the best products possible for customers while doing it in new and innovative ways. Creating value for our customers and for society is the ultimate goal for our business, and one of our comparative advantages is our ability to do so is through our employees. Georgia-Pacific is committed to environmental sustainability and stewardship through every stage of our business, using environmentally conscious production practices to maximize the use of renewable raw materials throughout our process.

The Cedar Springs facility is one of the largest containerboard facilities in the country with three paper machines that make different weights of brown paper & containerboard paper. The Cedar Springs Mill is located in the southwest corner of Georgia approximately 28 miles from Dothan, Alabama. Dothan is the 6th largest city in the state of Alabama with a population of about 70,000. From Dothan, you are only 90 miles from the beautiful Gulf Coast. You can easily drive to 3 capital cities in 3.5 hours or less. You are just 1.5 hours from Tallahassee, FL and Montgomery, AL. Additionally, Dothan has several parks, restaurants and local entertainment activities. To learn more about Georgia-Pacific’s packaging business please visit: www.gppackaging.com and view the video How Paper Is Made!

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.

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.

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: www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf

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