Entry Level Process Engineer with Quality Focus

- Serve as a champion for safety by promoting a safe work environment, demonstrating safe work practices, and actively participating in safety initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.

- Support quality objectives by maintaining high product quality standards, reducing process variability, and driving initiatives that improve overall product performance.

- Assist with new product development activities by planning, coordinating, and supporting product trials and evaluating trial results.

- Provide technical leadership and support to production areas by troubleshooting process and equipment issues, leading capital improvement projects, and advancing equipment reliability initiatives.

- Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot process control systems to optimize performance, improve operational stability, and support production goals.

- Collaborate with external technical resources, suppliers, and vendors to identify and implement cost reduction opportunities, quality enhancements, and process improvement initiatives.

- Develop and maintain positive working relationships with hourly employees while providing technical guidance and training related to process improvements, operational changes, safety requirements, quality standards, and efficiency improvements.

- Develop supervisory and leadership skills by assuming progressively greater responsibility with workforce coordination, decision-making, and operational oversight.

- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to provide weekend technical support and operational assistance for the Paper Unit.

- Support continuous improvement efforts through the identification, evaluation, and implementation of initiatives that enhance safety, quality, productivity, reliability, and cost performance.

This description is a summary of the position and not all-inclusive of responsibilities. It is subject to change over time.

- BS in Chemical Engineering, Paper Science Engineering, or other relative engineering degree

- Oral and written communication skills, to communicate technical material across the mill and to outside resources.

- Interest in the pulp and paper industry and building a developmental career with unlimited learning opportunities.

- Ability to comply with and enforce company, safety and environmental policies and procedures.

- Excellent time management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

- Proven interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

- Team player attitude, with the ability to work with diverse teams, multiple organizational levels and across business functions.