Senior Project Engineer - Mill Reliability Lead

ANDRITZ; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ANDRITZ is seeking an experienced Senior Project Engineer to support Lime Kiln, Recausticizing, and White Liquor Plant (WLP) systems across North America. This role is ideal for maintenance, reliability, or operations professionals looking to take on greater project ownership and customer engagement.

You will lead technical service and upgrade projects from planning through execution, manage scopes and budgets, coordinate stakeholders, and drive reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in pulp & paper operations, maintenance, reliability, field service, or project execution.
• Experience leading or supporting outages, shutdowns, or turnaround activities.
• Strong customer-facing and project coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical service and upgrade projects from planning through execution.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, and customer communications.
• Coordinate contractors, field crews, mill personnel, and project stakeholders.
• Support inspections, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and reliability improvements.
• Coordinate outage, shutdown, and turnaround activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and develop corrective action plans.
• Partner with customers to identify and develop future service and upgrade opportunities.

Skills

Project management

Outages & Turnarounds

Customer facing

Troubleshooting

Travel readiness

Education

Engineering degree (Mechanical or Chemical)

Tools

Vibration analysis

FMEA

RCA

Job description

ANDRITZ is seeking an experienced Senior Project Engineer to support Lime Kiln, Recausticizing, and White Liquor Plant (WLP) systems across North America. This role is ideal for maintenance, reliability, or operations professionals looking to take on greater project ownership and customer engagement.

You will lead technical service and upgrade projects from planning through execution, manage scopes and budgets, coordinate stakeholders, and drive reliability improvements.