Senior Project Engineer – Lime Kiln & Recovery Systems

Every day, ANDRITZ delivers successful, innovative solutions to customers across key global industries. Our success is driven by passionate people who bring technical expertise, ownership, and a commitment to solving real operational challenges.

Lead Critical Mill Reliability, Outages & Service Projects

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 a maintenance, reliability, technical service, or operations professional within the pulp and paper industry who is ready to take on greater project ownership, customer engagement, and technical leadership.

• 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

• 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
• Experience troubleshooting industrial equipment and driving reliability improvements
• Ability to travel 25–50% throughout North America

• Experience with:
  • Lime Kilns
  • White Liquor Plants (WLP)
  • Recovery Operations
• Experience with rotating equipment, vibration analysis, FMEA, or RCA
• Mechanical or Chemical Engineering degree, or equivalent industry experience

• Reliability Engineer
• Maintenance Engineer
• Recovery Engineer
• Mechanical Engineer
• Technical Service Engineer
• Recausticizing Supervisor

• Lead projects that directly impact mill reliability and production performance
• Work across multiple mills and customer sites throughout North America
• Partner with a highly experienced global technical team
• Build long-term customer relationships and technical expertise
• Advance your career into a visible technical leadership role

If you have experience supporting lime kilns, recovery systems, outages, reliability programs, or mill operations and want to make a larger impact across multiple facilities, we'd like to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.