Project Engineer

Your Job Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Project Engineer to join our engineering team at the Port Hudson Plant in Zachary, Louisiana. This role will develop and execute capital and in-house mill projects that improve safety, reliability, maintainability, productivity, and long-term asset performance. The Project Engineer will lead projects from scope development and estimating through engineering, construction, commissioning, startup, and closeout. Projects may utilize a combination of mill engineering and maintenance resources, electrical and mechanical crafts, contractors, engineering firms, vendors, and equipment suppliers. Our Team The Port Hudson Plant is part of Georgia-Pacific's tissue, towel, and napkin paper products manufacturing operations. We safely manufacture high-quality products while creating an environment that attracts, engages, and retains talented people. Our team applies Principle Based Management™ while working together to improve safety, reliability, productivity, and long-term performance for our customers, Georgia-Pacific, and the Zachary and Port Hudson communities. What You Will Do Develop and execute capital and in-house projects from scope development through startup and closeout. Develop project scopes, estimates, budgets, schedules, forecasts, and execution plans. Manage project safety, cost, schedule, quality, risk, and change. Select appropriate execution strategies using in-house resources, contractors, engineering firms, vendors, and suppliers. Apply a reliability and maintainability mindset to equipment selection, design, installation, commissioning, and turnover. Engage electrical and mechanical crafts early in project development to incorporate field knowledge, constructability, maintainability, accessibility, and lessons learned. Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities involving mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, civil/structural, and process systems. Manage contractors, vendors, suppliers, and engineering resources to achieve project objectives. Coordinate project execution with operations and maintenance to minimize impacts to mill operations. Ensure projects are properly commissioned and transitioned to operations and maintenance with required drawings, documentation, spare- parts information, asset data, training, and preventive/predictive maintenance requirements. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) Bachelor's degree in Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and relevant engineering, project, maintenance, construction, or industrial experience. Experience working in engineering, projects, maintenance, construction, or operations within an industrial or manufacturing environment. Experience developing technical scopes, coordinating work, or executing projects. Ability to apply reliability and maintainability considerations to engineering solutions. Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications. Willing and able to work in an industrial mill environment and work extended hours, weekends, or holidays as needed during outages, startups, and critical project activities What Will Put You Ahead Project engineering or project management experience in pulp and paper, chemical, refining, power generation, or another continuous-process industry. Experience executing both capital and in-house industrial projects. Experience with capital estimating, budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, procurement, and project controls. Experience with EcoSys or similar capital project management, forecasting, and cost-control systems. Experience with SAP for maintenance, procurement, materials, work management, or project-related activities. Experience coordinating multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, civil/structural, or process projects.. Familiarity with reliability practices such as root cause analysis, preventive and predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, equipment criticality, or failure-mode analysis. Experience wi…

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