Engineering Manager

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Georgia-Pacific’s Consumer Products Division is seeking an Engineering Manager to support our Wauna Paper Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon. A successful Engineering Manager will provide strategic leadership for a broad engineering organization responsible for capital project execution, electrical and mechanical project leadership, document control, and engineering talent development. This role will lead and develop a team of engineering professionals while partnering across operations, maintenance, and reliability organizations to improve asset performance, optimize manufacturing processes, and execute critical capital investments. The successful candidate will drive operational excellence by building organizational capability, advancing reliability and process improvements, and creating long-term value through innovation, continuous improvement, and disciplined project execution.  

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 900 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

• Lead, develop, and coach a multidisciplinary engineering team, including Project Managers, Electrical Project Managers, Outage Leaders, Document Control resources, and Engineering Development Program participants. 
• Build organizational capability by attracting, developing, and retaining engineering talent while creating opportunities for individual growth and contribution. 
• Oversee a significant portfolio of capital and reliability projects, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. 
• Provide strategic leadership for planned outages, major maintenance events, and facility improvement initiatives. 
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Environmental, and Procurement teams to identify opportunities that improve asset performance and create long-term value. 
• Establish engineering priorities that support mill reliability, productivity, safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence. 
• Ensure effective engineering processes, project governance, and document control practices are in place to support successful execution. 
• Drive continuous improvement efforts through innovation, problem-solving, and application of engineering best practices. 
• Support long-range planning, capital strategy development, and execution of complex manufacturing improvement projects. Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements while promoting risk identification and mitigation throughout the department. 
• Collaborate with mill leadership to achieve integrated manufacturing objectives and support the overall success of the Wauna Paper Mill. 

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading engineering, project management, reliability, or maintenance organizations within a manufacturing or industrial environment, including direct leadership responsibility for employees. 
• Experience managing capital projects and leading cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives. 
• Experience developing talent, coaching team members, and building organizational capability. 
• Experience translating strategic priorities into effective operational execution and sustainable results.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Paper Science, Bioresource Engineering, or a related technical discipline. 
• Experience within the pulp and paper industry. 
• Experience leveraging manufacturing and reliability systems such as PI Vision, PARCview, SAP, or similar analytics and maintenance management platforms to drive performance improvements.

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Hiring Philosophy

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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, aquí, or tu).

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