Quality Engineer: Root-Cause Leader & Product Stewardship

Georgia Pacific; Toledo (OR); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible Spending / HSA

Life insurance

AD&D

Retirement plan

Paid vacation

Education assistance

Infertility assistance

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure products meet customer, regulatory, internal quality, and stewardship expectations. This role leads technical investigations, drives corrective and preventive actions, and partners with operations, technical, environmental, commercial, and supply chain teams to prevent repeat issues.

The position collaborates with manufacturing, procurement, logistics, sales, and customer-facing teams to align product decisions with safety,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, chemistry, materials science, paper science, quality management, or a related technical field.
• Experience in quality engineering, manufacturing, process engineering, technical service, product stewardship, or a related industrial role.
• Demonstrated ability to lead root cause investigations and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Working knowledge of quality management systems, product specifications, process control, audit practices, and data-based problem solving.
• Ability to interpret technical data, laboratory results, customer requirements, process trends, and product performance information.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into clear business and customer-facing messages.

Responsibilities

• Lead structured root cause analyses for customer complaints, product nonconformances, process deviations, audit findings, and recurring quality issues.
• Own or support Product Stewardship activities, including containment, investigation, action planning, implementation, verification of effectiveness, documentation, and closure.
• Serve as a product stewardship resource by evaluating quality risks, regulatory considerations, customer use requirements, specification changes, and life-cycle impacts.
• Partner with manufacturing, technical, environmental, procurement, logistics, sales, and customer-facing teams to align product decisions with safety, compliance, customer expectations, and business risk.
• Analyze production, lab, inspection, customer feedback, and process data to identify trends, prevent defects, reduce variation, and improve product performance.
• Develops and coaches the Operations Teams on quality procedures, control plans, inspection criteria, specifications, and product disposition workflows.
• Support customer complaint investigations, technical reviews, audit responses, claims, regulatory inquiries, and product stewardship reviews.
• Coach teams on disciplined problem solving, evidence-based decisions, quality expectations, and effective documentation.

Skills

Quality engineering

Root cause analysis

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical field

Job description

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure products meet customer, regulatory, internal quality, and stewardship expectations. This role leads technical investigations, drives corrective and preventive actions, and partners with operations, technical, environmental, commercial, and supply chain teams to prevent repeat issues.

The position collaborates with manufacturing, procurement, logistics, sales, and customer-facing teams to align product decisions with safety,