Manufacturing Engineer - Converting

Georgia Pacific; Muskogee (OK); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Disability insurance

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is hiring a Manufacturing Engineer for their Muskogee Paper Mill in Oklahoma. The role centers on enhancing asset performance, team skills, reliability, and optimizing work processes.

The ideal candidate will manage converting assets, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and provide technical support while adhering to health and safety standards. Strong leadership and data analysis skills are essential.

Benefits include medical, dental, and retirement plans among others, focusing on the wellbeing of employees and their families.

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience training and mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Manage converting assets for optimal performance and reliability.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance production efficiency.
• Identify and resolve production issues to minimize downtime.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Continuous improvement strategies

Team training and mentoring

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Data analytics tools (PARCview, PI Vision)

CMMS systems (SAP, Maximo)

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is looking for skilled professionals to join us as a Manufacturing Engineer for a key asset in the converting department at our Muskogee Paper Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. This position focuses on safely enhancing asset performance by boosting team skills, increasing reliability, streamlining work processes, and optimizing equipment efficiency. In this role, you will lead innovation and create value by driving improvements in asset effectiveness through stronger reliability, refined workflows, and superior equipment operation. This role is open in the Converting portion of the mill.

Responsibilities

• Lead with Principle-Based Management (PBM) and influential leadership, fostering a collaborative and values-driven environment that supports organizational goals and promotes employee engagement.
• Manage converting assets to ensure optimal performance, longevity, and reliability. Prioritize and implement asset strategies by collaborating closely with asset reliability, planning, and purchasing teams to maintain efficient production operations.
• Lead, mentor, and develop production professionals to achieve consistent, reliable operating states. Provide technical support and troubleshooting assistance while building team ownership and understanding of equipment and processes.
• Implement, sustain, and lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance production efficiency, reduce waste, and improve product quality. Utilize data analysis and partnerships with analytics teams to identify, prioritize, and close process gaps.
• Promptly identify and resolve production issues to minimize downtime. Lead root cause analyses for manufacturing problems, facilitating investigations to determine underlying causes and executing effective corrective actions.
• Work closely with quality assurance teams to ensure products consistently meet required specifications and industry standards, including leading trials of raw materials to evaluate performance and cost-saving opportunities.
• Ensure all manufacturing processes comply with health, safety, environmental regulations, and corporate standards. Participate actively in safety audits, risk assessments, and promote a culture of safety across the production floor.
• Provide expert technical guidance to production teams and collaborate with cross-functional departments to address and resolve complex technical challenges, equipment modifications, installations, and startups.
• Manage engineering projects from design through implementation, including preparing project justifications, benefits analyses, and coordinating onsite and contractor resources to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Utilize data analysis tools to monitor key production metrics, generate insightful reports, and present findings to management to support strategic decision-making and continuous improvement efforts.
• Lead planning and optimization of scheduled unit outages and unplanned downtime to maximize production availability and minimize impact on operations.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies.
• Experience training, mentoring and developing others directly or indirectly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Paper or Bioresource Engineering.
• Pulp and Paper experience.
• Converting experience.
• Experience in full cycle project management.
• Experience using data and process analytics tools such as PARCview and PI Vision
• Experience working with a CMMS system (ex: SAP, Maximo, GCSS-Army, etc.)

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.

Equal Opportunity

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. Please click here for additional information. For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu.