Project Engineer

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Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking a qualified Project Engineer to support the Port Hudson Paper Mill located in Zachary, LA. The Project Engineer will plan, coordinate, and deliver capital and improvement projects across a high-speed tissue and consumer paper manufacturing facility. This role combines technical engineering expertise, project management, and cross-functional leadership to ensure projects are executed safely, on schedule, and within budget while supporting operational reliability, product quality, and continuous improvement.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Port Hudson Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 300 employees, Port Hudson strives to lead the tissue and towel 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

• Lead project delivery from concept through closeout by creating and maintaining project scope, detailed schedules, resource planning, cost estimates, and risk registers; drive decision-making to meet schedule and budget goals.
• Develop engineering designs and specifications (mechanical, electrical, controls) and coordinate detailed drawings, P&IDs, and vendor documents to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions for tissue converting, rewinding, slitting, embossing, and packaging equipment.
• Manage procurement and contractor activities: prepare bid packages, evaluate vendor proposals, support purchase order scopes, and oversee contractor work to ensure compliance with specifications, schedule, and safety requirements.
• Serve as primary liaison between operations, maintenance, safety, environmental, quality, and finance to align project objectives with plant priorities and operational readiness.
• Oversee project construction, installation, and machine changeovers, including field engineering support, punch-list management, and coordination of mill outages and planned shutdowns to minimize production impact.
• Lead commissioning and startup activities: develop startup plans, perform pre-start checks, validate performance against design intent, troubleshoot start-up issues, and hand over reliable systems to operations with training and documentation.
• Control project finances: monitor and forecast budgets, track variances, implement cost control measures, and present regular financial and schedule status to stakeholders.
• Enforce safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance across projects: ensure work permits, lockout/tagout, hazard analyses, and contractor safety systems are in place and followed.
• Drive continuous improvement and reliability: apply root-cause analysis, lessons learned, and best-practice engineering to reduce downtime, improve product quality, and optimize process efficiency.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Project engineering experience in paper manufacturing, converting, heavy industrial, chemical manufacturing, or refinery environment.
• Experience working with engineering and project management documentation platforms (AutoCAD, P&IDs, MS Projects, Build, Primavera etc).
• CMMS (Computerized Mechanical Maintenance Systems) experience.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• PMP or equivalent certification.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement certification and applied experience.
• Pulp & Paper experience.
• Electrical and/or Instrumentation 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 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.

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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, aqui, or tu).

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