Capital Projects Engineer – Industrial Plant

Flint Hills Resources; Zachary (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health Savings Account

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an experienced Project Engineer/Manager to lead capital and in-house projects at the Port Hudson plant in Zachary, LA. You will scope, plan, budget, and schedule projects, coordinating mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and process teams while ensuring safety and reliability.

The role requires adapting to an industrial mill environment, managing outages, and delivering complete turnover packages with documentation and asset data for maintenance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience in engineering, projects, maintenance, construction, or operations within an industrial/manufacturing environment.
• Experience developing technical scopes, coordinating work, or executing projects.
• Ability to apply reliability and maintainability considerations to engineering solutions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Willing and able to work in an industrial mill environment and extended hours as needed during outages and startups.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute capital and in-house projects from scope through startup and closeout.
• Develop project scopes, estimates, budgets, schedules, forecasts, and execution plans.
• Manage project safety, cost, schedule, quality, risk, and change.
• Select execution strategies using in-house resources, contractors, vendors, and suppliers.
• Apply reliability and maintainability mindset to equipment selection, design, installation, commissioning, and turnover.
• Engage crafts early in project development to incorporate field knowledge and constructability.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, civil/structural, and process systems.
• Manage contractors, vendors, suppliers, and engineering resources to achieve objectives.
• Coordinate project execution with operations to minimize mill impacts.
• Ensure projects are properly commissioned and transitioned with required drawings, documentation, and maintenance data.

Skills

Project management

Engineering

MS Office

Industrial environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

EcoSys

SAP

Microsoft Project

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an experienced Project Engineer/Manager to lead capital and in-house projects at the Port Hudson plant in Zachary, LA. You will scope, plan, budget, and schedule projects, coordinating mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and process teams while ensuring safety and reliability.

The role requires adapting to an industrial mill environment, managing outages, and delivering complete turnover packages with documentation and asset data for maintenance.