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Process Control Engineer

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Oregon, Clatskanie
May 12, 2025

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products division is seeking a Process Control Engineer to join our Wauna facility in Clatskanie, OR. This role is responsible for optimizing, troubleshooting, evaluating root causes to address technical issues, and managing some projects. The ideal candidate will have HMI and PLC knowledge, be experienced with various drives and equipment integration, and be able to communicate across all groups of the organization.

Our Team

The Wauna Mill is the proud producer of household products such as Brawny, Angel Soft, Sparkle, and Quilted Northern. The mill is located in a picturesque and uncrowded setting and is surrounded by the Clatsop Forest. Its central location provides numerous opportunities for both outdoor recreation and city living. Portland, Oregon, is only an hour's drive away with access to fine food, entertainment centers, and many other major urban centers. The Pacific Ocean can be reached in under thirty minutes. Many outdoor activities near the mill include fishing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and boating. And for the adventurer, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, and Mt. Rainier provide climbing opportunities and are home to several world-class ski resorts.

What You Will Do

  • Be involved in the controls and automation design, implementation, and support of hardware and software systems for mill process equipment, i.e.
  • Developing and executing migration plans for legacy process equipment to standard solutions
  • Evaluating root cause and addressing technical issues with long-term solutions in mind
  • Partner with corporate teams to implement new technologies that support advanced manufacturing
  • Providing support for existing and new Process Control systems; PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), local and distributed FactoryTalk View applications
  • Communicating and working with various operational, environmental maintenance, and engineering levels in a team environment.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering plus internship/coop experience in controls-related assignment, OR industrial experience working as an electrical or instrumentation technician

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience working within a Pulp and Paper operation
  • Professional experience working with Rockwell, Control Logix 5000, and various other FactoryTalk products
  • Experience working with various drive systems

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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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