Job Description
Your Job Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division seeks an Instrumentation Engineer for the Wauna Paper Mill in Clatskanie, OR. The role involves implementing mill-wide instrumentation projects and supporting the maintenance team. Responsibilities include managing projects and will follow a process covering concept, design, installation, and optimization. The role requires partnering with maintenance to ensure safe and efficient operation of instrumentation systems.
Our Team For over 50 years, the Wauna Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 700 employees, Wauna strives to lead the tissue, towel and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $150 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 - Engage in continuous improvement initiatives for mill facilities and work processes, enhancing operational efficiency and supporting compliance, safety, quality, cost, and schedule objectives.
- Participate in safety assessments and investigations to uphold safety standards, mitigate risks, and ensure contractor safety and coordination during construction phases.
- Identify and integrate innovative instrumentation technologies to address common failure modes, and assist in selecting and maintaining appropriate reliability and performance metrics.
- Track equipment performance issues related to instrumentation, implementing long-term reliability and availability improvements to enhance system performance.
- Provide field support for engineering, construction, startup, and commissioning activities, ensuring successful implementation and operation of systems.
- Develop and review preventative maintenance tasks for electrical systems, establish appropriate frequencies to prevent failures, and perform root cause failure analysis to identify and resolve issues.
- Apply expertise in troubleshooting techniques and performance analysis to solve field problems, ensuring reliable measurement and control, while providing technical support for maintenance and operations teams.
- Collaborate with the maintenance team, vendors, and contractors for troubleshooting, repair/replacement, configuration, tuning, programming, testing, commissioning, and decommissioning of systems.
- Produce, review, and verify engineering design details to meet standards and manufacturing requirements, ensuring quality and compliance with industry standards.
- Assist in developing project scopes, deliverables, and execution strategies using the management of change process to effectively manage and implement projects.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) - Instrumentation engineering experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.
- Experience implementing NFPA 70®, National Electrical Code® (NEC®).
What Will Put You Ahead - Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering
- Pulp & Paper industry experience.
- Process Controls Engineering experience.
- Electrical or Instrumentation planning experience.
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.
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.
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