Electrical Project Engineer

Georgia Pacific; Toledo (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package including medical, 
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Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific’s Toledo mill in Toledo, Oregon is seeking an Electrical Project Engineer to provide electrical, instrumentation, and controls support to project engineers with assessments, design, and expertise at a large, fully‑integrated production operation. Long‑term value is created through the application of our Principle Based Management business philosophy.

You will join the engineering team as onsite SME for electrical, instrumentation, and controls design, lead small projects,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Three or more years of electrical design of power, instrumentation, and controls in an industrial environment.
• Experience creating and modifying electrical AutoCAD drawings.

Responsibilities

• Provide electrical engineering subject matter expertise to project managers, process controls engineers, maintenance, and reliability teams
• Produce electrical and instrumentation design packages for small mill engineering projects
• Coordinate additional outside electrical engineering as needed to support larger projects
• Support mill’s electrical power distribution engineer with troubleshooting and maintenance of power systems
• Project manage small electrical‑based engineering projects with scope development, budgeting, and scheduling, and electrical construction management
• Provide leadership to drive continuous improvement with electrical and instrumentation reliability

Skills

Electrical design

Power distribution

Instrumentation

Project management

AutoCAD

PLC knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Project

Job description

Your Job

Our Georgia‑Pacific mill in Toledo, Oregon is seeking an innovative and forward‑thinking individual to join our team as an Electrical Project Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the mill’s engineering team to provide electrical, instrumentation, and controls support to project engineers with assessments, design, and expertise at this large fully‑integrated production operation. Long‑term value is created through the application of our Principle Based Management business philosophy.

Our Team

This role is part of the engineering department at the Toledo mill and would be the primary onsite subject matter expert on electrical, instrumentation, and controls design. Georgia Pacific Toledo is a producer of brown paper used to make cardboard and is a leader in recycling in the Northwest.

What You Will Do

• Provide electrical engineering subject matter expertise to project managers, process controls engineers, maintenance, and reliability teams
• Produce electrical and instrumentation design packages for small mill engineering projects
• Coordinate additional outside electrical engineering as needed to support larger projects
• Support mill’s electrical power distribution engineer with troubleshooting and maintenance of power systems
• Project manage small electrical‑based engineering projects with scope development, budgeting, and scheduling, and electrical construction management
• Provide leadership to drive continuous improvement with electrical and instrumentation reliability

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering
• Three (3) or more years of electrical design of power, instrumentation, and controls in and/or project management experience in an industrial environment to include power distribution, instrumentation, and controls
• Experience creating and modifying electrical AutoCAD drawings

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with pulp and paper manufacturing technology and systems
• Five or more years of experience as electrical engineer in a heavy industrial environment
• Experience with valves and instrumentation specification
• Experience with three‑phase power distribution, 480V three‑phase motors with variable frequency drive configurations, AC/DC drives and motors, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs), electrical drives and power distribution; experience with Reliability Improvement tools (Root Cause Failure Analysis, Preventative/Predictive maintenance, KPIs)
• Proficient at Microsoft Project
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license

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, long‑term 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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E‑Verify.