Power and Utilities Area Technical Assistant

About the role

Georgia-Pacific is hiring a Technical Assistant (Assistant Superintendent) to join our team in Toledo, OR (Containerboard) supporting the Power and Utilities Area (including Causticizing and Recovery). This position will provide strategic and technical leadership to achieve key operating objectives in safety, environmental compliance, reliability, production, quality, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Drive a culture of safety and environmental excellence through critical hazard identification, risk reduction, and risk mitigation
• Collaborate directly with operators, shift leaders and Superintendents to meet the business objectives of the department and influence continuous improvement
• Lead teams in the identification, development, evaluation and implementation of safety, quality and/or cost reduction initiatives and projects that add the highest value to the operation to drive continuous improvement
• Lead outage planning and execution for cycle and routine outages; serve as an integral team member for annual outages
• Assist in development and implementation of capital projects involving process improvements to document and optimize efforts
• Use process data, operating trends, and field observations to troubleshoot Power, Utilities, Recovery, and Causticizing systems and identify opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, environmental performance, and operating stability
• Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, reliability, and process control teams to resolve chronic equipment and process issues involving boilers, steam systems, turbines, liquor cycle equipment, rotating equipment, instrumentation, and process controls
• Support outage scope development by identifying technical priorities, validating repair recommendations, and ensuring equipment and process risks are addressed before restart
• Lead or participate in root cause analyses, management of change reviews, and technical problem-solving efforts related to safety, environmental compliance, reliability, quality, and cost performance

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have two (2) or more years of experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment and one (1) or more years of experience leading continuous improvement initiatives and/or reliability strategies. Experience using Microsoft Office tools is also required.

Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering
• Experience with recovery boiler, power boiler, steam generation, turbine, recausticizing, lime kiln, evaporator, or utility systems in a pulp and paper operation
• Experience using process historian data, DCS graphics and trends, or statistical tools to troubleshoot process variation and equipment performance
• Knowledge of boiler water treatment, combustion systems, liquor cycle chemistry, causticizing chemistry, emissions controls, or energy optimization
• Experience supporting outage planning, asset reliability improvements, root cause analysis, management of change, or capital project development in a heavy industrial operation
• Three (3) or more years of leadership or supervisory experience within a pulp and paper manufacturing operation
• Experience with Pulp processes and equipment operation
• Experience managing in a labor union environment
• Experience with chemical process safety
• Six Sigma training and certification
• Statistical Process Controls (SPC) experience

Benefits

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.