Manufacturing Engineer (Brownstock) - Brunswick

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer (ME) for Brown Stock at our Brunswick GA cellulose mill. The role is responsible for increasing the effectiveness of the asset group by improving reliability, work processes, equipment performance, and team member capabilities.

Our Team

The Brunswick Cellulose facility is one of the largest integrated fluff pulp mills in the country with a modern woodyard, fiberline, three paper machines, waste treatment plant, and utilities operations. The Brunswick Cellulose Mill, located in the southeast corner of Georgia is within minutes of downtown Brunswick and about an hour from Jacksonville, FL to the south and Savannah, GA to the north.

What You Will Do

• Improving reliability of Kraft Mill assets by leading the development, implementation, and execution of asset strategies for the digesters, brown stock washing, oxygen delignification and associated equipment.
• Leading daily operations of equipment by developing operating targets, ensuring KPIs are met, equipment setup is correct, assisting operators with troubleshooting, identifying cause of gaps to plan and developing plans to close gaps.
• Managing changes made to the chemical process safety covered areas to ensure safe operations.
• Collaborating with other departments such as Environmental, Maintenance, Reliability, Process Control and Paper Machines to ensure assets meet safety, environmental, quality, productivity, and cost expectations while maintaining efficient operations.
• Facilitating the outage planning process to ensure that plans are in place to safely execute work.
• Improving longer term asset performance by understanding the business, mill, and department visions and identifying area needs to meet those objectives.
• Prioritizing opportunities and developing a plan to create capability including potential capital and non-capital opportunities, and leading or participating in capital project scope development, engineering, execution, and startup.
• Providing technical expertise and transferring knowledge to other members of the operating team via daily interaction and formal/informal skill building.
• Developing Standard Procedures and building capability of technicians to competently perform tasks following the procedures.
• Working with process control and technicians to implement automation/advanced controls to minimize technician interaction and reduce process variability.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, preferably in pulp and paper or related industries.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in managing teams and fostering a culture of accountability and performance.
• Strong knowledge of batch digester, brown stock washing and oxygen delignification operations, including process flows, equipment, and safety requirements.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Pulp & Paper Science, or a related technical field; or equivalent experience in pulping & washing operations.
• Pulp & Paper experience.
• Experience using ParcView or PI to review and understand departmental trends.
• Process Safety Management (PSM) and Chemical Process Safety (CPS) experience.

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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.

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

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