Manufacturing Engineer - Converting

Georgia-Pacific’s Consumer Products Division is looking for skilled professionals to join us as a Manufacturing Engineer for a key asset in the converting department at our Muskogee Paper Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. This position focuses on safely enhancing asset performance by boosting team skills, increasing reliability, streamlining work processes, and optimizing equipment efficiency. In this role, you will lead innovation and create value by driving improvements in asset effectiveness through stronger reliability, refined workflows, and superior equipment operation.

This role is open in the Converting portion of the mill.

For over 50 years, the Muskogee Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 700 employees, across more than 600 acres, Muskogee strives to lead the tissue, towel, and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $50 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

• Lead with Principle-Based Management (PBM) and influential leadership, fostering a collaborative and values-driven environment that supports organizational goals and promotes employee engagement.
• Manage converting assets to ensure optimal performance, longevity, and reliability. Prioritize and implement asset strategies by collaborating closely with asset reliability, planning, and purchasing teams to maintain efficient production operations.
• Lead, mentor, and develop production professionals to achieve consistent, reliable operating states. Provide technical support and troubleshooting assistance while building team ownership and understanding of equipment and processes.
• Implement, sustain, and lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance production efficiency, reduce waste, and improve product quality. Utilize data analysis and partnerships with analytics teams to identify, prioritize, and close process gaps.
• Promptly identify and resolve production issues to minimize downtime. Lead root cause analyses for manufacturing problems, facilitating investigations to determine underlying causes and executing effective corrective actions.
• Work closely with quality assurance teams to ensure products consistently meet required specifications and industry standards, including leading trials of raw materials to evaluate performance and cost-saving opportunities.
• Ensure all manufacturing processes comply with health, safety, environmental regulations, and corporate standards. Participate actively in safety audits, risk assessments, and promote a culture of safety across the production floor.
• Provide expert technical guidance to production teams and collaborate with cross-functional departments to address and resolve complex technical challenges, equipment modifications, installations, and startups.
• Manage engineering projects from design through implementation, including preparing project justifications, benefits analyses, and coordinating onsite and contractor resources to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Utilize data analysis tools to monitor key production metrics, generate insightful reports, and present findings to management to support strategic decision-making and continuous improvement efforts.
• Lead planning and optimization of scheduled unit outages and unplanned downtime to maximize production availability and minimize impact on operations.

• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies.
• Experience training, mentoring and developing others directly or indirectly.

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering, Paper or Bioresource Engineering.
• Pulp and Paper experience.
• Converting experience.
• Experience in full cycle project management.
• Experience using data and process analytics tools such as PARCview and PI Vision
• Experience working with a CMMS system (ex: SAP, Maximo, GCSS-Army, etc.)

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