Your Job
Are you passionate about exploring new ideas and breaking through conventional norms? At Georgia-Pacific, we share your enthusiasm for pushing boundaries and embracing creative solutions. We constantly challenge the status quo, take calculated risks, and strive to improve the product we make.
As a market leader in away-from-home towel, we are seeking a Senior Product Developer to help us extend our competitive edge. This role offers a unique opportunity to (1) deepen your technical expertise in product design, (2) leverage your creativity to tackle challenging problems, and (3) apply a customer-centric approach to driving innovation.
Our Team
The Georgia-Pacific PRO towel product development team drives the technical advancement of our enMotion® and Pacific Blue™ towel brands in the away-from-home market. As a team of dedicated entrepreneurs, we're committed to ongoing innovation and cross-functional collaboration to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful value to our customers and the company. This position is located at the Neenah Technical Center (NTC), the central site for research, development, and lab services for Georgia-Pacific’s North American Consumer Products business.
What You Will Do
- Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders, consumer research, quality, operations, device development group, and our technology platforms to drive year-over-year cost & product improvements.
- Design and Experimentation: Designing and conducting experiments to test new product designs and hypotheses, analyzing data sets using advanced statistical methods and data analysis tools to support strategic decision-making.
- Product Support: Provide technical support on product claims, data substantiation, intellectual property, and overall product points of view to our business teams and other collaboration partners.
- Mentoring: Support developing early/mid-career co-workers through mentorship and coaching
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree in physical science or engineering
- Experience working in an R&D, product development OR manufacturing environment independently leading technical projects
- Able to travel an average of ~25%, both domestic and international. Travel requirement may vary for hybrid/remote situations
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience in tissue, towel, or napkin product development, papermaking, or converting
- Experience in paper manufacturing know how (process engineering) papermaking or converting processes.
- Master’s Degree or higher in Engineering or Paper Science
- Strong background in Design of Experiments (DoE) and experience with advanced data analysis tools.
- Experience in project management
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.
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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