Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Lexington, Kentucky

Company: Georgia-Pacific

Career Field: Engineering

Our Team:

What You Will Do:

• Asset Management: Develop, implement, and monitor strategies to enhance the reliability of production equipment. Collaborate with purchasing, planning, and reliability teams to improve asset performance.
• Process Improvement: Identify and execute improvement opportunities in manufacturing processes and equipment, focusing on risk reduction, quality enhancement, waste reduction, and productivity optimization.
• Root Cause Analysis: Facilitate investigations into manufacturing issues to determine underlying causes and implement corrective actions.
• Materials and Process Trials: Lead trials of raw materials to assess performance and explore cost-saving opportunities.
• Optimization and Standardization: Drive streamlining and optimization projects within the plant, standardizing work procedures to enhance efficiency.
• Team Leadership: Direct technicians in reliability and continuous improvement efforts, ensuring that management of change activities are conducted effectively.
• Project Management: Oversee equipment modifications, installations, and startups. Prepare project justifications and benefits analyses, managing onsite and contractor resources to meet project objectives.
• Safety and Risk Management: Actively participate in the plant's safety initiatives, promoting a culture of safety and proactive risk management.

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.

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.