Description

Your Job

The Senior Electrical Engineer supports the Power and Drives team within the Projects and Engineering Group. This role provides electrical engineering leadership and support for large capital projects, typically five million or larger in spend. As a member of the Power & Drives Team, you will support capital projects across the country. Additionally, you will collaborate with our GP operational support partners to deliver digital expectations for long-term remote support capabilities. This is an excellent opportunity to challenge your technical expertise, organizational skills, and leadership to create long term value for our operations partners.

This role is home based but can work out of a facility if preferred. We have 2 openings, one supporting the power systems and the other supporting drive systems.

Our Team

The Projects and Engineering team consists of over 100 individuals across the United States working with our Consumer Products, Building Products and Packaging & Cellulose mills. The team focus is on capital project execution as well as run-ability of current assets. The Power and Drives Team provides technical troubleshooting and capital project support for the power systems and drive systems within our facilities.

What You Will Do

• Provide leadership for external/internal engineering resources to drive project proposals, completion, and engineering standards
• Lead a program approach to address like needs (obsolete power and frequency drive systems) across GP manufacturing sites
• Partner with project managers to determine scope of work, deliverables and project execution strategies
• Review project estimates, and schedules for the electrical portions of the project
• Review conceptual and detailed engineering and designs completed by partner engineering firms
• Review/verify specifications and bid packages for electrical equipment and installation services
• Identify project risks and assist in mitigating impacts to the project
• Field support on major milestones in engineering, construction, startup, and commissioning
• Evaluate engineering firm’s performance against objectives and provide feedback to promote corrective action and continuous improvement

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an Electrical Engineering discipline OR in lieu of a degree, electrical engineering experience troubleshooting power or drive systems
• Experience working with power or drive systems in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with electrical safety and applying electrical safety risk reduction standards and designs
• Experience referencing and applying National Electrical Code
• Able to travel up to 25% on average
• Experience leading complex electrical projects

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in power system modeling and protective relaying
• Experience specifying, installing, commissioning, and troubleshooting alternating/direct-current (AC/DC) coordinated variable frequency/speed drive systems
• Experience in the paper or oil/gas industry
• Experience and knowledge of Arc Flash, NFPA 70E and power systems modeling software
• Maintenance reliability experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) License

For this role, we anticipate paying $125k - $160k per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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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.

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.

Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf

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