Product Developer – Retail Towel and Napkin - Georgia-Pacific

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Product Developer - Retail Towel and Napkin for our Technical Center in Neenah, WI. This is a position within the Retail Towel and Napkin team where you will drive product design and new product innovation. This opportunity will allow you to combine your technical expertise, leadership skills, creativity, and entrepreneurship to have a direct impact on business performance. If you have a passion for connecting technical solutions with business and consumer needs, this could be the right opportunity for you!

What You Will Do

• Designing, experimenting, evaluating, and executing alternative solution based on understanding of technical capabilities, consumer/customer unmet needs and market trends
• Connecting market and consumer needs to product design, performance, alternatives, and setting technical specifications/limits on final product design
• Work with business stakeholders, consumer research and technology platform to collaborate on successful execution of experimental development or commercialization projects.
• Mitigating technical risk by designing and analyzing experiments, coordinating, and conducting mill trials, and collecting consumer/market feedback on product designs
• Developing Intellectual Property through the creation of invention disclosures, patent applications and trade secrets by partnering with the Legal team
• Solving complex problems, by exercising critical thought and approaching data analysis and potential recommended paths forward with a creative and open-minded approach
• Providing technical advice on claims, data substantiation, and overall product points of view to our business leaders, operations, manufacturing, sales, and marketing teams

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Paper Science, Engineering or at least 5 years of product development experience in paper products
• Willing and able to travel an average of 25%
• Experience working in an R&D environment with demonstrated results independently leading projects or experiment, product development activities, and scaling up to commercial feasibility.
• Technical knowledge of papermaking and converting of both structured and nonstructured

What Will Put You Ahead

• Advanced Engineering Degree (M.S.) in Engineering, Paper Science, or business
• Experience in project management
• Experience in towel/napkin product development or converting
• Experience with SAP (PLM/MDG)
• 5 plus years of experience in product development

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

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.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.

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