Reliability Engineer: Pulp Dryer Innovation

Georgia Pacific; New Augusta (MS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific's Leaf River Cellulose Mill in New Augusta, MS is seeking a Reliability Engineer for the pulp dryer department. The role drives asset strategy, root cause analysis, outage planning, and reliability initiatives to improve safety, quality and efficiency.

The position partners with maintenance and operations to implement lubrication and vibration programs, monitor performance, and push for continuous improvements that increase equipment uptime and plant performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or 5+ years of Mechanical/reliability experience in manufacturing, industrial, chemical, oil & gas, or military environment.
• Experience with reliability improvement tools to reduce unplanned downtime.
• Experience with Microsoft systems and other tools to communicate and analyze data.
• Basic understanding of lubrication and vibration analysis.

Responsibilities

• Effectively support the mill vision in the development and execution of reliability plans.
• Actively participate in driving a safety culture where employees address unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors and make suggestions for improvements.
• Support Environmental, Health & Safety excellence and operational areas with a focus on reliability improvements.
• Support Lubrication and Vibration Technicians in program execution, including oil analysis, Vibration analysis, new technology implementation, and material procurement.
• Analyze operational targets and equipment costs to identify gaps utilizing data driven analysis for potential improvement solutions.
• Collaborate with maintenance, operations, engineering, or others to vet opportunities and/ or execute improvements.
• Work with other Georgia Pacific Reliability subject matter experts (SME) to share knowledge.
• Utilize appropriate strategies to improve equipment or operational strategies.
• Ensure inspections, PMs, and QA/QC methods deployed can identify the damage mechanisms as early as possible.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement for contribution-motivated employees to ensure a high level of value creation.
• Helps develop and critique outage planning processes, defines outage scope, and aids in the execution and tracking of outage workloads.
• Work with others to improve the outage processes.
• Help develop strategic investment portfolio for the area based on performance gaps and ensure projects are initiative to help support the area plans.
• Monitor and engage team with support systems such as PHA, MOC, Trax, and Incident review.
• Get involved tactically with upset conditions and failures to drive RCA work through the team.
• Monitor and assess reliability performance, build reports, and scorecards that help communicate and connect the team to the issues and improvement work.

Skills

Reliability tools

Data analysis

Lubrication & vibration

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical or chemical engineering

Tools

Oil analysis

Vibration analysis

Job description

Georgia-Pacific's Leaf River Cellulose Mill in New Augusta, MS is seeking a Reliability Engineer for the pulp dryer department. The role drives asset strategy, root cause analysis, outage planning, and reliability initiatives to improve safety, quality and efficiency.

The position partners with maintenance and operations to implement lubrication and vibration programs, monitor performance, and push for continuous improvements that increase equipment uptime and plant performance.