Senior Electrical Engineer

Remote with up to 60% Travel

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer opportunity within our corporate Electrical Center of Excellence team. This Electrical Team is a part of a larger organization, Technology Solutions Group, that specializes in various areas of mill support. Team members are located across the United States and work with Consumer Products, Building Products and Packaging & Cellulose mills to improve safety, productivity, and reliability in our operations. This position home-based, providing there is convenient access to an airport.

Our Team

An excellent opportunity to challenge your technical expertise, organizational skills, and leadership to create long term value for our operations partners. Reporting to the Electrical Team Lead, with your peers. You will be part of the Electrical Outage Management team which is responsible for readiness and execution of outages throughout our facilities.

What You Will Do

• Ensure sites are prepared for upcoming area and cold mill outages by validating readiness, SoW and capabilities to complete electrical maintenance and repair within a set schedule.
• Ensure the quality of execution for maintaining our equipment was performed to our standards.
• Provide guidance around equipment specific SoW to ensure consistency, repeatability, and realistic timelines.
• Implement projects that provide improved safety, reliability and bring mills forward in our efforts to innovate.
• Direct input and influence on company standards for proactive maintenance.
• Support sites in troubleshooting efforts during UPE’s and participate in subsequent RCAs.
• Collaboration with GP manufacturing, sourcing, operations, and business teams
• Working with external partners to develop relationships and deliverables to provide industry competitive job execution.
• Recruiting, mentoring, and developing future engineers.
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading the execution of outages and leading and directing contractors to complete projects, maintenance etc.
• Experience troubleshooting, operating and maintaining power distribution equipment. (breakers, relays, switches and other similar equipment)
• Experience implementing maintenance and reliability programs within an electrical team (internal or external techs executing).
• Experience as a supervisor with responsibility for direct reports and strong leadership skills
• Familiarity with NFPA 70B and E, along with NEC standards.
• .Willing and able to travel on average 60% of the time
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s degree or above
• Experience working within a manufacturing/industrial environment.
• Experience working within a pulp and paper environment.
• Implementation of projects where you performed equipment upgrades, relay networking and communication, arc flash mitigation and/or similar experience. Projects in general.
• Ability to perform remote diagnostics of power related issues.
• Ability to interpret Power models and determine mitigation strategy.
• Ability to analyze oscillography events around Power quality and determine root cause. Along, with understanding how to mitigate future events if possible.
• Knowledge of motor theory, especially large Synchronous motors, and the Preventative/Predictive maintenance required to upkeep. Along with, the ability to troubleshoot issues if they occur.
• Comfortable with talking to operational leadership around technical decisions and impact on their process.
  
  

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.