Manufacturing Engineer

at  GeorgiaPacific

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.

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.

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.

• 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