Overview
Manufacturing Engineer (Brownstock) at Georgia-Pacific's Brunswick cellulose mill in Brunswick, GA. The role focuses on increasing asset group effectiveness by improving reliability, work processes, equipment performance, and team member capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Improve reliability of Kraft Mill assets by leading the development, implementation, and execution of asset strategies for the digesters, brown stock washing, oxygen delignification and associated equipment.
- Lead daily operations of equipment by developing operating targets, ensuring KPIs are met, ensuring correct equipment setup, assisting operators with troubleshooting, identifying causes of gaps to plan, and developing plans to close gaps.
- Manage changes made to chemical process safety covered areas to ensure safe operations.
- Collaborate with Environmental, Maintenance, Reliability, Process Control and Paper Machines to ensure assets meet safety, environmental, quality, productivity, and cost expectations while maintaining efficient operations.
- Facilitate the outage planning process to ensure plans are in place to safely execute work.
- Improve longer term asset performance by understanding the business, mill, and department visions and identifying area needs to meet those objectives.
- Prioritize opportunities and develop a plan to create capability including potential capital and non-capital opportunities, and lead or participate in capital project scope development, engineering, execution, and startup.
- Provide technical expertise and transfer knowledge to other members of the operating team via daily interaction and formal / informal skill building.
- Develop Standard Procedures and build capability of technicians to competently perform tasks following the procedures.
- Work with process control and technicians to implement automation / advanced controls to minimize technician interaction and reduce process variability.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, preferably in pulp and paper or related industries.Demonstrated leadership experience in managing teams and fostering a culture of accountability and performance.Strong knowledge of batch digester, brown stock washing and oxygen delignification operations, including process flows, equipment, and safety requirements.What Will Put You Ahead
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Pulp & Paper Science, or a related technical field; or equivalent experience in pulping & washing operations.Pulp & Paper experience.Experience using ParcView or PI to review and understand departmental trends.Process Safety Management (PSM) and Chemical Process Safety (CPS) experience.About the Company
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