Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Role Overview

Georgia-Pacific's Pro Business Division seeks an Electrical Maintenance Engineer for our paper Mill in Camas, WA. This role focuses on implementing electrical projects and supporting the maintenance team. The engineer will follow a framework that includes concept, design, installation, and optimization. Key responsibilities include partnering with maintenance to provide technical expertise, project management, and troubleshooting support for electrical infrastructure, ensuring safety and efficiency and acting as the liaison with local utility suppliers.

• Lead initiatives to improve mill facilities and work processes to meet operational efficiency, safety, compliance, quality, cost, and schedule targets, and close gaps identified during audits.
• Conduct safety assessments, incident investigations, and coordinate contractors during construction to maintain safety standards and reduce risks.
• Manage project scopes including electrical systems and handle field-engineering challenges beyond typical planning, delivering practical solutions without full-scale project execution when appropriate.
• Produce, review, and validate engineering designs and drawings using AutoCAD and Solid Works; develop scopes of work and maintain accurate project documentation.
• Design, maintain, troubleshoot, and model power distribution systems with tools such as Easy Power, and perform power distribution footprint optimization.
• Provide technical support to maintenance and operations teams: diagnose and resolve electrical/control issues (PLCs, drives, automation) and develop/modify PLC programs to improve performance.
• Create and review preventative maintenance tasks with appropriate frequencies, perform root-cause failure analyses, and implement corrective actions to prevent repeat electrical failures.
• Perform electrical engineering analyses: load calculations, motor sizing, equipment and drive upgrades (including variable-speed drives), and efficiency improvement measures driven by operations and planners.
• Use SAP for maintenance activity tracking and inventory management and Auto Desk Vault for document/data management; support construction, startup, and commissioning to ensure successful project implementation.

• Electrical engineering experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.
• Experience implementing NFPA 70®, National Electrical Code® (NEC®).

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering
• Pulp & Paper industry experience.
• Project Engineering Experience
• Electrical or Instrumentation planning experience.

For this role, we anticipate paying $90,000 - $140,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.