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Reliability Engineer - Utilities

Location(s)

New Augusta, Mississippi

Company

Georgia-Pacific

Career Field

Operations & Manufacturing

Job Number

194256

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The Reliability Engineer role in the pulp dryer department at the Leaf River Cellulose Mill in New Augusta, MS is responsible for supporting the area's reliability, efficiency, and production improvements through asset strategy development, root cause analysis, outage scope management, asset health and condition monitoring, and strategic investment. This role is also a key member for the Dryer department and accountable helping support the team's objectives associated with Environmental, Safety, Quality, culture, personnel while ensuring alignment with the company's management philosophy, Principle Based Management (MBM).

This role will report to the area reliability leader and work with them to establish and drive key reliability initiatives focused on driving improvement. The team is responsible for developing tactical and strategic improvement plans targeting known gaps as identified by the team through asset strategy development, investment, and maintenance repair through area and annual outage planning cycles.

Our Team

The Leaf River Cellulose Mill is a large paper plant, north of New Augusta, Mississippi. They produce filter grade pulp and market pulp, which is used in the manufacturing of coffee filters, vacuum cleaner bags, automotive filters, printing paper, tissue paper, and coated paper.

What You Will Do

• Effectively support the mill vision in the development and execution of reliability plans.
• Actively participate in driving a safety culture where employees address unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors and make suggestions for improvements.
• Support Environmental, Health & Safety excellence and operational areas with a focus on reliability improvements.
• Support Lubrication and Vibration Technicians in program execution, including oil analysis, Vibration analysis, new technology implementation, and material procurement.
• Analyze operational targets and equipment costs to identify gaps utilizing data driven analysis for potential improvement solutions. Collaborate with maintenance, operations, engineering, or others to vet opportunities and/ or execute improvements.
• Work with other Georgia Pacific Reliability subject matter experts (SME) to share knowledge. Utilize appropriate strategies to improve equipment or operational strategies. Use GP reliability network to keep current with the latest technology, tools, and best practices.
• Ensure inspections, PMs, and QA/QC methods deployed can identify the damage mechanisms as early as possible
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement for contribution-motivated employees to ensure a high level of value creation
• Helps develop and critique outage planning processes, defines outage scope, and aids in the execution and tracking of outage workloads. Work with others to improve the outage processes.
• Help develop strategic investment portfolio for the area based on performance gaps and ensure projects are initiative to help support the area plans.
• Monitor and engage team with support systems such as PHA, MOC, Trax, and Incident review
• Get involved tactically with upset conditions and failures to drive RCA work through the team
• Monitor and assess reliability performance, build reports, and scorecards that help communicate and connect the team to the issues and improvement work.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or related field of study or (5) + years of Mechanical/reliability experience in manufacturing, industrial, chemical, oil & gas, or military environment
• Experience with reliability improvement tools to reduce unplanned downtime
• Experience with Microsoft systems and other tools to communicate and analyze data
• Basic understanding of lubrication and vibration analysis

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in Pulp & Paper industry, specifically the utilities area
• Project, process, or reliability engineering experience in an industrial setting
• Experience in implementing effective reliability strategies that support a culture of continuous improvement
• Certification or continued education in reliability applications, practices, and management
• Experience utilizing Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) or similar programs
• Supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment with responsibility for direct reports
• Experience working in vibration monitoring systems
• Vibration training and/or certifications
• Lubrication training and/or certifications

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 a 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 30,000 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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