Senior Winder & Finishing Process Expert

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking a Subject Matter Expert to join the Manufacturing Technical Group, providing technical expertise on winders, finishing end equipment, and associated processes across North America facilities.

The role collaborates with hourly and salaried personnel, mentors staff, supports asset improvement, installation, commissioning, and optimization, and plans outages to deliver reliable performance.

Qualifications

• Knowledge in paper-making equipment: finishing end equipment, winders, reels and/or roll handling.
• Able to read P&ID drawings, layout drawings, and mechanical drawings.
• Proven ability to lead, communicate with, and mentor others in a manufacturing environment.
• Willing and able to travel up to 75% of the time.
• Willing and able to work in environments with platforms/catwalks, elevated temperatures, and humidity.
• Willing to work weekends, nights, and holidays when needed.

Responsibilities

• Act as Change Agents with hourly and salaried personnel to identify improvement opportunities for processes, people and equipment.
• Coordinate and lead efforts to return asset performance to the optimized base case with third-party support and internal resources as needed.
• Support installation, commissioning, and optimization of new or upgraded assets.
• Assist asset owners in prioritizing lists of improvement opportunities for their respective assets based on business need.
• Work with other Subject Matter Experts, capability teams, and operations personnel to develop standardized operating and maintenance strategies for similar assets and equipment.
• Provide technical mentoring support for hourly, salaried engineering and operations personnel at local facilities and corporate team.
• Assist in planning outages with operations to ensure desired results.
• Apply SME knowledge to support short-term technical requests across multiple facilities.
• Support trials of new process technology and equipment and assess applicability with existing asset base.

Skills

Winders & finishing

P&ID interpretation

Leadership/mentoring

Travel 75%

Cross-functional comms

Education

Bachelor’s in Engineering / Technical degree

Tools

SAP

PI ProcessBook

Job description

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking a Subject Matter Expert to join the Manufacturing Technical Group, providing technical expertise on winders, finishing end equipment, and associated processes across North America facilities.

The role collaborates with hourly and salaried personnel, mentors staff, supports asset improvement, installation, commissioning, and optimization, and plans outages to deliver reliable performance.