Your Job
Georgia-Pacific's Hattiesburg, MS Facility is seeking qualified individuals to consider for their Quality Engineer opportunity. Primary responsibilities of this role include executing daily quality testing and inspections, monitoring and analyzing quality metrics, investigating quality issues, and collaborating with operations to ensure compliance with the Quality Control Plan and consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific in Hattiesburg, MS is a leading specialty paper packaging supplier focused on providing a quality product and cost savings to our customers in the foodservice and retail napkin industry. We offer our customers a strategic partnership that contributes to their long-term profitability and success.
This position plays a key role in maintaining and continuously improving the site’s Safe Quality Foods (SQF) System, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Product Stewardship programs while supporting a culture of operational excellence.
This role reports to the Facility Quality Manager, with frequent collaboration with the operations group.
What You Will Do
- Support Product Safety and Quality certification programs.
- Monitor and analyze quality performance and inform Facility Quality Manager of improvement opportunities.
- Perform physical testing, visual inspections, and compliance verification activities.
- Support the planning, development, execution, and evaluation of product development trials.
- Investigate product quality deviations and recommend corrective actions.
- Partner with operations to investigate quality incidents through Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) and ensure corrective and preventative actions are effectively implemented.
- Provide operations with reports on key quality performance indicators.
- Assist Manufacturing Engineers in the identification and measurement of key process variables to improve quality and sustain our run-to-target metrics.
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Hiring Philosophy
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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.
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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 business work together to produce superior results.
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
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree or higher OR equivalent Quality experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Experience working within a product system that applies quality programs.
- Experience working within an operation that utilizes standard inspection and physical testing methods.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience with HACCP or SQF certifications and proven track record for related program management and implementation.
- Experience with Statistical process control (SPC), Root Cause Analysis methodologies and CAPA.