Manufacturing Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking a Manufacturing or Process Engineer to support PM14 at our Muskogee Paper Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

In this role, you will help improve the safety, reliability, quality, and operating performance of a versatile paper machine producing tissue, towel, and napkin products.

You will partner closely with operating crews and cross-functional teams to solve problems, strengthen equipment and process performance, build operator capability, and establish consistent operating practices that deliver sustainable results.

Our Team

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

With more than 900 employees across more than 600 acres, Muskogee strives to lead the tissue, towel, and napkin business.

Our team recently invested more than $50 million to grow our brands and continue serving consumers with the quality they have come to expect.

Learn more about Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products.

What You Will Do


* Provide day-to-day technical and process leadership for PM14, a swing paper machine producing tissue, towel, and napkin products, with a focus on improving safety, quality, reliability, productivity, and overall machine performance.


* Partner closely with paper machine operators and production leadership to troubleshoot process and equipment issues, identify sources of variability, and develop sustainable solutions that reduce downtime, waste, quality defects, and recurring operating losses.


* Build the capability of operating crews by translating paper-making and process knowledge into practical operator training, troubleshooting procedures, standard operating practices, and clear operating expectations that improve consistency across crews and shifts.


* Analyze paper machine operating data, process trends, equipment performance, and production losses to identify improvement opportunities and establish optimal operating conditions.

Use tools such as PI Vision, where applicable, to support data-driven decisions.


* Lead root cause analysis and structured problem solving for chronic and significant paper machine issues, partnering with operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, and engineering resources to identify causes, implement corrective actions, and verify that improvements are sustained.


* Develop and optimize machine operating strategies, standard work, and process controls that improve consistency through grade changes, startups, shutdowns, product transitions, and normal operating conditions across PM14's tissue, towel, and napkin production.


* Partner with maintenance and reliability teams to identify equipment reliability opportunities, prioritize corrective work, plan machine outages, and improve the effectiveness of maintenance activities that affect paper machine availability and performance.


* Provide technical leadership for machine trials, raw material changes, produ...