Process Engineering Leader: Mill Optimization & Leadership

Flint Hills Resources; Big Island (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending

Health savings accounts

Life insurance

ADD

Disability

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Process Engineering Leader at our Big Island, Virginia facility. You will lead and develop the site process engineering team, partnering with Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and Engineering to improve mill performance and create long-term value.

You will establish priorities, build team capability, and guide capital projects, trials, and process controls while ensuring safety and environmental compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, paper science, chemistry, or related technical field.
• Process engineering or manufacturing experience in a pulp and paper facility or other continuous-process industry.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, supervising, or developing technical employees.
• Experience identifying, analyzing, and resolving complex process or manufacturing problems.
• Experience cross-functionally with operations, maintenance, reliability, engineering, or technical teams.
• Willingness and ability to participate in the mill duty rotation and provide off-hours support as scheduled.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop process engineers and interns; strengthen technical and leadership capability.
• Prioritize work by safety, environmental risk, reliability, quality, production, and value.
• Identify opportunities, troubleshoot performance gaps, determine root causes, and implement improvements.
• Reduce process variability via operating strategies, controls, and standard work.
• Lead process trials, equipment evaluations, and new technology implementations.
• Provide technical leadership for capital projects from design to startup and verification.

Skills

Process engineering

Coaching/mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Off-hours availability

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Process Engineering Leader at our Big Island, Virginia facility. You will lead and develop the site process engineering team, partnering with Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and Engineering to improve mill performance and create long-term value.

You will establish priorities, build team capability, and guide capital projects, trials, and process controls while ensuring safety and environmental compliance.