Project Engineer, Electrical Engineering

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Project Engineer to join our engineering team at the Port Hudson Plant in Zachary, Louisiana. This role will develop and execute capital and in-house mill projects that improve safety, reliability, maintainability, productivity, and long-term asset performance. The Project Engineer will lead projects from scope development and estimating through engineering, construction, commissioning, startup, and closeout. Projects may utilize a combination of mill engineering and maintenance resources, electrical and mechanical crafts, contractors, engineering firms, vendors, and equipment suppliers.

The Port Hudson Plant is part of Georgia-Pacific’s tissue, towel, and napkin paper products manufacturing operations. We safely manufacture high-quality products while creating an environment that attracts, engages, and retains talented people. Our team applies Principle Based Management™ while working together to improve safety, reliability, productivity, and long-term performance for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Zachary and Port Hudson communities.

• Develop and execute capital and in-house projects from scope development through startup and closeout.
• Develop project scopes, estimates, budgets, schedules, forecasts, and execution plans.
• Manage project safety, cost, schedule, quality, risk, and change.
• Select appropriate execution strategies using in-house resources, contractors, engineering firms, vendors, and suppliers.
• Apply a reliability and maintainability mindset to equipment selection, design, installation, commissioning, and turnover.
• Engage electrical and mechanical crafts early in project development to incorporate field knowledge, constructability, maintainability, accessibility, and lessons learned.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities involving mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, civil/structural, and process systems.
• Manage contractors, vendors, suppliers, and engineering resources to achieve project objectives.
• Coordinate project execution with operations and maintenance to minimize impacts to mill operations.
• Ensure projects are properly commissioned and transitioned to operations and maintenance with required drawings, documentation, spare-parts information, asset data, training, and preventive/predictive maintenance requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and relevant engineering, project, maintenance, construction, or industrial experience.
• Experience working in engineering, projects, maintenance, construction, or operations within an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience developing technical scopes, coordinating work, or executing projects.
• Ability to apply reliability and maintainability considerations to engineering solutions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Willing and able to work in an industrial mill environment and work extended hours, weekends, or holidays as needed during outages, startups, and critical project activities.

• Project engineering or project management experience in pulp and paper, chemical, refining, power generation, or another continuous-process industry.
• Experience executing both capital and in-house industrial projects.
• Experience with capital estimating, budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, procurement, and project controls.
• Experience with Eco Sys or similar capital project management, forecasting, and cost-control systems.
• Experience with SAP for maintenance, procurement, materials, work management, or project-related activities.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls,…