Manufacturing Engineer - Converting

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Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is looking for skilled professionals to join us as a Manufacturing Engineer for a key asset in the converting department at our Muskogee Paper Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. This position focuses on safely enhancing asset performance by boosting team skills, increasing reliability, streamlining work processes, and optimizing equipment efficiency. In this role, you will lead innovation and create value by driving improvements in asset effectiveness through stronger reliability, refined workflows, and superior equipment operation. This role is open in the Converting portion of the mill.

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 700 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 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

• Lead with Principle-Based Management (PBM) and influential leadership, fostering a collaborative and values-driven environment that supports organizational goals and promotes employee engagement.
• Manage converting assets to ensure optimal performance, longevity, and reliability. Prioritize and implement asset strategies by collaborating closely with asset reliability, planning, and purchasing teams to maintain efficient production operations.
• Lead, mentor, and develop production professionals to achieve consistent, reliable operating states. Provide technical support and troubleshooting assistance while building team ownership and understanding of equipment and processes.
• Implement, sustain, and lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance production efficiency, reduce waste, and improve product quality. Utilize data analysis and partnerships with analytics teams to identify, prioritize, and close process gaps.
• Promptly identify and resolve production issues to minimize downtime. Lead root cause analyses for manufacturing problems, facilitating investigations to determine underlying causes and executing effective corrective actions.
• Work closely with quality assurance teams to ensure products consistently meet required specifications and industry standards, including leading trials of raw materials to evaluate performance and cost-saving opportunities.
• Ensure all manufacturing processes comply with health, safety, environmental regulations, and corporate standards. Participate actively in safety audits, risk assessments, and promote a culture of safety across the production floor.
• Provide expert technical guidance to production teams and collaborate with cross-functional departments to address and resolve complex technical challenges, equipment modifications, installations, and startups.
• Manage engineering projects from design through implementation, including preparing project justifications, benefits analyses, and coordinating onsite and contractor resources to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Utilize data analysis tools to monitor key production metrics, generate insightful reports, and present findings to management to support strategic decision-making and continuous improvement efforts.
• Lead planning and optimization of scheduled unit outages and unplanned downtime to maximize production availability and minimize impact on operations.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies.
• Experience training, mentoring and developing others directly or indirectly.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Paper or Bioresource Engineering.
• Pulp and Paper experience.
• Converting experience.
• Experience in full cycle project management.
• Experience using data and process analytics tools such as PARCview and PI Vision
• Experience working with a CMMS system (ex: SAP, Maximo, GCSS-Army, etc.)

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 300,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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