Your Job Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified professionals to consider for the Manufacturing Engineer - Bleach Plant at our Palatka, Florida facility. Located just south of Jacksonville and west of St. Augustine, FL, the Palatka mill employs about 850 people has two kraft and four tissue paper machines and produces kraft liner, bath tissue and paper towel products sold under the Georgia-Pacific brand names. The Manufacturing Engineer will work in our Pulp, Power, and Recovery department, reporting to the Product Stream Leader.
The successful candidate will have leadership responsibility for the safe and environmentally compliant operation of R8/R10, Bleach Plant, Acid/Caustic Offloading, and stock processing equipment into the Bleached HD storage. This position will provide technical support and expertise to area operators. This position will also work and coordinate closely with the area reliability coordinator, asset availability leader and reliability/maintenance to ensure equipment reliability and effective spending.
What You Will Do - Lead the implementation of complete asset strategies and operator basic care by sharing ownership with operators and technicians to operate, maintain and improve area performance
- Provide technical expertise and share knowledge with Master & Process technicians, Shift Capability Leaders, Asset Availability Leader (AAL), Reliability Coordinator, and other shift Leaders
- Provide strategic and tactical leadership in the areas of safety, asset reliability, cost optimization, quality capability, productivity, and capital planning/execution
- Lead the effort to identify, investigate, recommend, and implement equipment improvements, new systems, and process changes to improve productivity, yield, quality and/or reduce costs/safety risks
- Engage Engineering and Project Management resources on capital improvement projects
- Working with Shift Leaders, operators/technicians identify and address knowledge, performance gaps in their work areas
- Lead support personnel resolving short/long-term reliability issues creating a "standardize & simplify" mindset. Leading RCFAs, mental models, 5 dimensions and work processes
- Detailed involvement in financial planning for the area
- Engage with Environmental team to resolve outstanding or future state challenges
- Lead and drive Process Safety Management program for the area
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)- Three (3) or more years of experience leading a Paper/Fiber manufacturing process.
- Detailed experience managing projects.
- Experience supporting process improvement, reliability, continuous improvement, and/or operational performance
- Experience managing, leading, or executing projects in a manufacturing or industrial environment
What Will Put You Ahead- Two (2) or more years of experience working within a Paper, Pulp, Power & Recovery segment
- Possess working knowledge of ClO2 Production, Bleaching Chemistry, and Process Safety Management
- Experience applying reliability concepts as they relate to asset strategies
- Experience applying reliability concepts and developing or improving asset strategies
- Experience using SAP in a manufacturing or maintenance environment
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