Bleach Plant Manufacturing Engineer

Georgia-Pacific - Clatskanie, OR

Full-time

Clatskanie, OR

Wood Product Manufacturing

About the position

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products division is seeking a Bleach Plant Manufacturing Engineer for the Kraft Mill at the Wauna facility located in Clatskanie, OR. This role is pivotal in enhancing the effectiveness of the asset group by focusing on improving reliability, work processes, equipment performance, and the capabilities of team members. The engineer will play a crucial role in influencing the long-term success of the plant, contributing to both production efficiency and the cultivation of a culture centered around Market-Based Management. This position offers significant potential for advancement within the plant and across the broader company, making it an exciting opportunity for career growth. In this role, the engineer will be responsible for leading the development and execution of asset strategies specifically for the bleach plant and associated equipment, including the R8 ClO2 generator. A key aspect of the job involves facilitating root cause analysis for equipment failures and losses, ensuring that effective plans are developed and executed to address these issues. The engineer will also oversee daily operations, setting operating targets, ensuring that key performance indicators (KPIs) are met, and assisting operators with troubleshooting to identify and close gaps in performance. Collaboration is essential in this position, as the engineer will work closely with various departments, including Environmental, Maintenance, Reliability, Process Control, and Paper Machines, to ensure that all assets meet safety, environmental, quality, productivity, and cost expectations. The role also includes facilitating outage planning to ensure safe execution of work and improving long-term asset performance by aligning with the business, mill, and departmental visions. The engineer will prioritize opportunities for improvement, develop plans for capability enhancement, and lead or participate in capital project scope development, engineering, execution, and startup. Additionally, the engineer will provide technical expertise on bleach plant and chemical preparation assets, transferring knowledge to the operating team through daily interactions and formal/informal skill-building sessions. Developing standard procedures and enhancing the capabilities of technicians to perform tasks competently will also be a significant part of the role. Finally, the engineer will collaborate with process control and technicians to implement automation and advanced controls, aiming to minimize technician interaction and reduce process variability.

Responsibilities

• Improving reliability of Kraft Mill assets by leading the development, implementation, execution of asset strategies for the bleach plant, R8 ClO2 generator and associated equipment.
• Facilitating root cause analysis process for equipment failures and/or losses.
• Ensuring that plans are developed and executed to address the root cause (check/adjust asset strategy).
• Leading daily operations of equipment by developing operating targets, ensuring KPIs are met, equipment setup is correct, assisting operators with troubleshooting, identifying cause of gaps to plan and developing plans to close gap.
• Managing changes made to the chemical process safety covered areas to ensure safe operations.
• Collaborating with other departments such as Environmental, Maintenance, Reliability, Process Control and Paper Machines to ensure assets meet safety, environmental, quality, productivity, and cost expectations while maintaining efficient operations.
• Facilitating the outage planning process to ensure that plans are in place to safely execute work.
• Improving longer term asset performance by understanding the business, mill, and department visions and identifying area needs to meet those objectives.
• Prioritizing opportunities and developing a plan to create capability including potential capital and non-capital opportunities, and leading or participating in capital project scope development, engineering, execution, and startup.
• Providing technical expertise on bleach plant and chemical prep assets and transferring knowledge to other members of the operating team via daily interaction and formal/informal skill building.
• Developing Standard Procedures and building capability of technicians to competently perform tasks following the procedures.
• Working with process control and technicians to implement automation/advanced controls to minimize technician interaction and reduce process variability.

Requirements

• Two (2) or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial or military environment.
• One (1) or more year of experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies.
• Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word.