Process Engineer

Georgia-Pacific is hiring a Process Engineer to join our team in Janesville, WI. This position will provide strategic and tactical leadership to achieve key operating objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost. The successful candidate will focus on safely improving productivity and reducing costs through process/equipment optimization and operator knowledge/skill improvement.

• Identify, develop, and lead product design projects to drive continual improvements in the areas of growth, expansion, and production capacity
• Interact with tooling engineering and manufacturing engineering groups to validate product manufacturability
• Develop performance specification and testing methodology to define and validate product performance
• Interact with sales and customer contacts to define product requirements, specifications and functional requirements based on market or customer specific needs
• Define and manage development and commercialization timelines. Communicate project timelines with business unit product managers, sales, customers, and manufacturing
• Work with tooling engineering and operations engineering teams to define manufacturing strategy and capital plans required for product implementation.
• Coordinate prototyping activities, manufacturing trials and lab testing on products and prototypes
• Maintain and update project reporting documentation. Participate in regular organizational project update meetings
• Coordinate new product startups in the manufacturing plants and work with process engineering, plant staff and customers to validate product performance and customer acceptance
• Establish set-up and processing parameters based on material and machine capabilities
• Develop molding procedures to ensure consistent processing of product on all shifts
• Monitor and review daily production efficiencies with Production Manager on machine/process to ensure consistent processing
• Serve as the technical liaison between product engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, and sales

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related technical field
• Experience in process engineering in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Experience leading troubleshooting efforts and/or continuous improvement initiatives
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

• Experience in the manufacturing and design for thermoforming and sheet extrusion
• Understanding of tooling and machining practices for thermoforming
• Project management and/or project leadership knowledge

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.