Georgia-Pacific - Zachary, LA
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Zachary, LA
101-250 employees
Wood Product Manufacturing
About the position
The TAD Manufacturing Process Engineer at Georgia-Pacific will provide technical expertise to TAD and eTAD paper making assets across North America. This role involves diagnosing operational issues, leading local resources in resolving these issues, identifying improvement opportunities, and developing expertise in others while staying updated on emerging technologies. The position requires regular domestic travel to various facilities.
Responsibilities
- Work with hourly and salaried personnel at production sites to identify improvement opportunities for both processes and equipment through site assessments
- Review maintenance and downtime data to identify production equipment that needs repair, replacement, or reconfiguration
- Coordinate and lead efforts to return asset performance to optimized base case with third party support and internal resources as needed
- Support installation, commissioning, and optimization of new assets
- Assist asset owners in managing and prioritizing lists of improvement opportunities for their respective assets based on business need
- Work with Subject Matter Experts and operations personnel within Georgia Pacific to develop standardized operating and maintenance strategies for similar assets and equipment
- Provide technical and professional support and mentoring for hourly and salaried engineering and operations personnel both at local facilities and within the corporate engineering team
- Assist in planning specific outage activities with operations teams to ensure that desired results are achieved
- Apply Subject Matter Expertise to support short-term technical requests across multiple facilities
- Support trials of new process technology and equipment and provide assessment of applicability with existing asset base
Requirements
- 5+ years combined experience in manufacturing leadership role(s) supporting structured paper making (TAD, eTAD, QRT, NTT, UCTAD) operations
- Knowledge and expertise in specific paper making equipment and process areas including but not limited to: yankee steam systems, hot air systems, formation and others
