Senior Process Engineer

Job description

Your Job Georgia-Pacific’s Consumer Products business is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to support our Muskogee Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. This role will serve as a key technical and business partner across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Reliability. The Senior Process Engineer in pulp will be responsible for improving manufacturing process performance and equipment reliability while ensuring maintenance resources and financial investments are focused on the highest-value opportunities. This position combines process engineering with maintenance and reliability leadership, including process optimization, troubleshooting, maintenance backlog management, planning and prioritization, asset strategy, and financial stewardship. The successful candidate will use operating, equipment, and financial data to identify opportunities, prioritize resources, solve complex problems, and create sustainable long-term value for 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 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 • Provide technical leadership to continuously improve safety, environmental performance, product quality, process performance, equipment reliability, and overall manufacturing effectiveness within the operating area. • Analyze process, production, equipment, and performance data to identify opportunities to improve throughput, efficiency, quality, waste, downtime, maintenance cost, and overall asset performance. • Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Reliability teams to troubleshoot process and equipment issues, utilizing root cause analysis and other structured problem-solving methods to develop sustainable solutions and eliminate recurring losses. • Own and continuously improve maintenance work management for the area, including work request evaluation, backlog health, prioritization, planning readiness, scheduling effectiveness, and alignment of maintenance resources to the highest-value opportunities. • Develop and support preventative, predictive, and precision maintenance strategies, using equipment history, failure data, maintenance costs, and operating performance to improve reliability and address high-maintenance, high-cost, or unreliable assets. • Develop and own the annual department maintenance spend plan, including forecasting, tracking performance against plan, identifying financial risks and opportunities, and making informed decisions around resource allocation and maintenance priorities. • Evaluate process, maintenance, and reliability opportunities based on business and economic value, balancing equipment risk, production needs, maintenance costs, available resources, cost avoidance, and long-term asset performance. • Develop business cases and economic justification for process improvements, reliability initiatives, equipment upgrades, and maintenance investments, while tracking results to ensure anticipated operational and financial value is realized. • Partner with area leadership to develop and execute long-term process, reliability, maintenance, and outage strategies, while monitoring key performance indicators and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainable value creation. • Serve as the department’s maintenance and reliability investment gatekeeper, challenging work requests and proposed spend to ensure resources are directed toward the highest-value needs based on safety, asset risk, production impact, business value, and long-term reliability. • Own the technical health of the pulp process by identifying and reducing chronic process losses, establishing operating envelopes and key process indicators, and driving structured problem solving across fiber yield, chemical usage, quality, energy, throughput, and environmental performance. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Paper Science, or another related technical discipline. • Experience troubleshooting manufacturing processes, equipment, or operational performance. • Experience using operational, financial, equipment, or performance data to support decision-making and prioritize improvement opportunities while using structured problem-solving or root cause analysis methodologies. • Experience working with maintenance or reliability processes, including maintenance planning, work prioritization, equipment reliability, or asset improvement. • Experience managing, monitoring, or making decisions involving budgets, spend plans, project costs, or operating expenses. • Experience working with a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) or similar maintenance management system. • Eligibility to work without a current or future need of sponsorship or a visa. What Will Put You Ahead • Experience in pulp and paper, tissue, converting, chemicals, refining, power generation, or another continuous-process manufacturing environment. • Experience supporting both manufacturing process improvement and equipment reliability. • Experience working within Process Safety Management (PSM) or other covered-process environments. • Supervisory, project leadership, or cross-functional leadership 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. 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 environme