Mechanical Reliability Engineer; EDP

Overview

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking early career talent for our Mechanical Reliability Engineer (EDP) role in the pulp dryer department at the Leaf River Cellulose Mill in New Augusta, MS. This role is responsible for supporting reliability, efficiency, and production improvements through asset strategy development, root cause analysis, outage scope management, asset health and condition monitoring, and strategic investment. The role is also a key member of the Dryer department and accountable for helping support the team s objectives related to Environmental, Safety, Quality, culture, and personnel while ensuring alignment with the company s management philosophy, Principle Based Management (MBM).

This role will report to the area reliability leader and work with them to establish and drive key reliability initiatives focused on driving improvement. The team is responsible for developing tactical and strategic improvement plans targeting known gaps as identified by the team through asset strategy development, investment, and maintenance repair through area and annual outage planning cycles.

Leaf River is a nonunion facility in South Mississippi, just 20 miles from Hattiesburg, with a dedicated workforce of about 320 employees. For 40 years, the Leaf River team has focused on producing top quality chemical cellulose, custom fibers, and non-woven materials for products like diapers, baby wipes, and coffee filters. As part of Georgia-Pacific s Cellulose business, Leaf River exemplifies safety, operational, and environmental excellence.

• Effectively support the mill vision in the development and execution of reliability plans.
• Actively participate in driving a safety culture where employees address unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors and make suggestions for improvements.
• Support Environmental, Health & Safety excellence and operational areas with a focus on reliability improvements.
• Support Lubrication and Vibration Technicians in program execution, including oil analysis, Vibration analysis, new technology implementation, and material procurement.
• Analyze operational targets and equipment costs to identify gaps utilizing data driven analysis for potential improvement solutions. Collaborate with maintenance, operations, engineering, or others to vet opportunities and/or execute improvements.
• Work with other Georgia Pacific Reliability subject matter experts (SME) to share knowledge. Utilize appropriate strategies to improve equipment or operational strategies. Use GP reliability network to keep current with the latest technology, tools, and best practices.
• Ensure inspections, PMs, and QA/QC methods deployed can identify the damage mechanisms as early as possible.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement for contribution-motivated employees to ensure a high level of value creation.
• Help develop and critique outage planning processes, define outage scope, and aid in the execution and tracking of outage workloads. Work with others to improve the outage processes.
• Help develop strategic investment portfolio for the area based on performance gaps and ensure projects are initiatives to help support the area plans.
• Monitor and engage team with support systems such as PHA, MOC, Trax, and Incident review.
• Get involved tactically with upset conditions and failures to drive RCA work through the team.
• Monitor and assess reliability performance, build reports, and scorecards that help communicate and connect the team to the issues and improvement work.

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree program
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship
• Available to start work in June 2026

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As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day to make everyday…