Overview
Engineer I - Early Career Development at Clearwater Paper Corporation. This on-site role is based at one of three mills: Augusta, GA; Cypress Bend, AR; or Lewiston, ID.
The Augusta mill sits along the Savannah River, on the state border between Georgia and South Carolina, and manufactures light, medium, and heavy weight coated paperboard with approximately 600 thousand tons of capacity. The Cypress Bend facility, located in the historic Mississippi River Delta, produces bleached paperboard and bleached Kraft pulp. The Lewiston mill is the original Clearwater Paper manufacturing facility, producing paperboard product. This role supports technical and process improvement work across these facilities.
What You Will Do
- Technical Assistance: Evaluates recent technologies, implements process changes, and develops systems to reduce operating costs, increase production, and improve quality
- Leads the technical process for operating areas to solve equipment and process-related problems
- Provides support data for all reports and performance updates
- Data analysis to reduce variability or improve performance
- Reviews production schedules and suggests modifications for reduced downtime and/or changeovers where applicable
- Assists with designing solutions to eliminate equipment failures and process instabilities
- Writes procedures, trains operators, and monitors compliance with quality procedures
- Organizes shutdown schedules for operations where applicable
- Process Improvement: Develops working knowledge of process areas, including process flow, operator responsibility, major quality attributes, and areas for improvement
- Initiates, conducts, and documents results of process trials to improve productivity and/or quality
- Assists with proposals to justify capital expenditures and coordinates start-ups of capital projects
- Recommends and implements process improvements or chemical changes to improve the overall operation
- Assists with data collection for justification of capital expenditures and coordination of start-ups
- Conducts crew training in new process equipment or chemical additives
- Monitors process variables and recommends changes in operation for improved performance
- Optimizes process by identifying and eliminating root causes of process variations
- Leadership: Participates in the development of less experienced engineers; provides crew supervision during trials or upset conditions to ensure trial plans are properly executed
What You Will Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or Paper Science preferred
- Entry-level position with internship experience in manufacturing or paper industry preferred
- Basic knowledge of PI (Process Information System)
- Experience with Production Management systems preferred
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel at an intermediate level
- Industrial environment – subject to extreme heat and cold
- PPE must be worn in the mill environment
- Noisy, dusty, and working around moving equipment
Clearwater Paper will not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status for this position. All applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require sponsorship.
This role will be open for a minimum of 2 weeks or until a successful candidate is selected.
Senior ity level
- Not Applicable
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
- Manufacturing and Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing
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📌 Engineer I - Early Career Development
🏢 Clearwater Paper
📍 Augusta