Electrical Reliability Engineer

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Electrical Reliability Engineer to support our Paper Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. In this role, you will provide technical leadership focused on improving the reliability, performance, and lifecycle management of the mill's electrical assets and systems. A successful candidate will leverage technical expertise, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional collaboration to improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and create long-term value for the business. This role requires a strong understanding of electrical equipment, power distribution systems, predictive and preventative maintenance practices, failure analysis, and asset reliability principles.

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 750 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

• Serve as the site electrical reliability resource, providing technical leadership to improve the reliability, availability, and performance of electrical systems and assets across the mill.
• Develop, implement, and optimize preventative and predictive maintenance strategies for critical electrical equipment, including motors, drives, switchgear, transformers, protection systems, and power distribution assets.
• Lead root cause failure analyses (RCFA) and implement corrective actions that eliminate recurring equipment failures and improve long-term asset performance.
• Use equipment history, performance data, maintenance records, and reliability metrics to identify opportunities that improve safety, reliability, productivity, and operating effectiveness.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, and reliability teams to prioritize and execute reliability improvement initiatives.
• Support electrical reliability studies, condition monitoring programs, asset health assessments, and lifecycle planning activities.
• Serve as a technical resource for troubleshooting complex electrical system and equipment issues while developing sustainable solutions that reduce future risk.
• Maintain and improve critical electrical documentation, including single-line diagrams, equipment strategies, maintenance procedures, and engineering standards.
• Support capital and expense projects from concept through startup, including scope development, equipment selection, design reviews, commissioning, and management of change activities.
• Collaborate with maintenance teams to improve work processes, optimize PM programs, and strengthen precision maintenance practices.
• Support power system studies including arc-flash assessments, coordination studies, short-circuit studies, and load analysis as needed to support safe and reliable operations.
• Participate in safety initiatives, incident investigations, and continuous improvement efforts while applying sound engineering judgment and economic thinking to maximize value creation.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience improving the reliability, maintenance, performance, or lifecycle management of electrical equipment and systems within an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience troubleshooting electrical equipment failures and implementing corrective actions to improve equipment reliability using methodologies such as RCFA, FMEA, RCM, asset criticality assessments, or condition-based maintenance.
• Experience developing or supporting preventative and predictive maintenance programs.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
• Experience with reliability 
• Experience with vibration analysis, thermography, motor testing, power quality monitoring, or other predictive technologies.
• Experience with SKM, EasyPower, ETAP, or similar power-system modeling software.
• Pulp & Paper experience.
• Project Management experience.

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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, aquí, or tu).

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