Manufacturing Engineer - Woodyard

Your Job

The Georgia-Pacific Wauna Mill is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer - Woodyard to join the team in Clatskanie, Oregon.

The overall responsibility of the Manufacturing Engineer is to develop and implement deliberate improvement opportunities within the Woodyard Department, focusing primarily on equipment operating envelopes, equipment reliability, asset strategies, and energy cost.

Our Team

This position is part of the Woodyard/Pulp Mill leadership, having daily interactions with operators as well as corporate and industry subject matter experts.

This position reports to the Area Leader - Pulp Mill, Woodyard, and Water.

What You Will Do


* Providing timely and relevant information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates to aid in knowledge and challenge processes.


* Staying up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to the job to develop personal and organizational capabilities for greater value creation.


* Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize and accomplish work.


* Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts from Pi or other sources of data and transferring it into relevant and useful information for knowledge sharing to identify value creation opportunities.


* Supporting current and future transformational initiatives.


* Engaging Corporate/Industry SME's to leverage utilization of both existing and future technology.


* Monitoring and optimizing key process indicators


* Working with capital engineering to evaluate potential upgrades for long-term sustainability


* Optimizing chemical and energy costs through analytical analysis and process balances

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelors Degree in Engineering OR 3+ years of experience with mechanical system operations (rotating equipment, valves, conveyors)


* Experience performing data analysis


* Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word (to write business correspondence), Excel (for use of spreadsheets, reporting, simple formulas) and Outlook


* Experience utilizing a maintenance management/CMMS system (ie SAP, Maximo)

What Will Put You Ahead


* Leadership experience in a manufacturing environment


* Experience in a sawmill operation


* Experience in identifying, leading, developing and implementing improvement initiatives


* Experience with managing heavy equipment assets

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