Automation Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking a qualified Automation Engineer to support the Port Hudson Paper Mill located in Zachary, LA.

The Automation Engineer will primarily work with thefacility's automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) that support material movement throughout the facility.

The Automation Engineer will be responsible for interacting with plant operations, corporate capabilities, and other engineering disciplines to develop a sustainable deployment of the fleet to deliver long term value and advance the business to best in industry standards.

This role requires travel up to 50% depending on business needs and project scopes.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Port Hudson Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region.

With more than 300 employees, Port Hudson strives to lead the tissue and towel 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.

What You Will Do


* Own the AGV fleet and lead the partnership: act as the primary technical liaison with our Sr Automation Engineer and third party AGV/robotic vendors, owning requirements, integrations, performance tuning, incident triage, and roadmap prioritization for autonomous material handling across high speed manufacturing lines.


* Serve as the site and enterprise technical lead / SME for material handling, warehouse automation platforms, and integration frameworks: define standards, patterns, and best practices to ensure consistent, secure, and supportable automation deployments across sites.


* Design, develop, deploy and support integrations across PLCs, MES, WMS, AGV/robot controllers, orchestration systems and ERP: translate functional requirements into robust interfaces (protocol mapping, data modeling, transaction handling) and deliver tested, maintainable automation solutions.


* Partner cross functionally with Process Control, Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing IT, architects and vendors: co create optimized automation platforms and deployment patterns that balance reliability, operability, and scalability for continuous, high speed production environments.


* Develop and maintain system architecture artifacts, diagrams, runbooks and operational documentation: produce network/stack diagrams, sequence flows, failover procedures, and step by step triage guides so on site and remote teams can quickly restore service and sustain systems.


* Analyze manufacturing and system data flows to drive reliability and performance improvements: mine telemetry (cycle times, latencies, error rates), identify bottlenecks or failure modes, quantify root causes and propose measurable remediation or optimization plans.


* Lead QA, testing and defect resolution for automation functionality: define test plans (unit, integration, regression), ...