Senior Mechanical Engineer - Pixelle Specialty Solutions

Pixelle Specialty Solutions™  SPRING GROVE PAPER MILL,  is the largest specialty paper company in North America, with fully integrated pulp and paper operations in Chillicothe, Ohio, Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, Stevens Point, Wisconsin and a coating operation in Fremont, Ohio. Supported by an experienced product development team, Pixelle excels in designing customized solutions that help customers bring new products to market. With a long history of leadership in the paper industry, Pixelle delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of specialty papers to help you meet today’s challenging demands.

The primary role of the Senior Engineer is to manage and implement mill capital and major repair projects and provide day to day technical support as needed within the general facility. 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Promote and support all facility level safety and environmental initiatives.
• Perform front end studies on potential capital projects with high business impacts.
• Develop and maintain dynamic capital and major repair plans, adjusting to the ever-changing needs of the mill.
• Support Engineering and Maintenance resources in the implementation of capital and major repair projects with a strong emphasis on safety, environmental impact, quality, cost, and schedule.
• Prioritize and provide oversight to assigned projects completed through Engineering.
• Management of multiple projects concurrently from initial concept, evaluation of alternatives, estimating, schedule, cost forecasting, specifications, design, safety reviews, bid review and selection, installation and commissioning, training, spare parts, and documentation.
• Provide mechanical expertise and engineering acumen that includes industry accepted best practices, design, troubleshooting, and operations support of rotating equipment (paper machines, winders, coaters), pumping systems, piping systems, power and steam generation equipment, building systems, and roll handling. 
• Utilize a basic understanding and knowledge of structural and civil concepts as it applies to select projects (underground piping, trenching, etc.).
• Assist in troubleshooting efforts to resolve technical problems in the mill.
• Manage and provide oversight to outside contractors regarding safety, code, technical and commercial requirements.
• Assist Legal and Purchasing in the development of contractual agreements with vendors on higher cost equipment and labor purchases.
• Assist Finance in tax, capital vs. expense, and IRR financial decisions and justifications.
• Maintain capital asset and engineering documentation.
• Mentor junior engineers, interns, and co-ops.
• Insure compliance to codes and standards in all Maintenance and Engineering efforts.

Participation on and leadership of cross-functional teams.

Experience – 7 to 10+ years of related experience in a manufacturing environment preferably in pulp and paper, chemical or refining industry, power generation, or other heavy industry.

Education – Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or other applicable degree from an accredited college or university.

Competencies

• Ability to apply mathematical concepts and operations related to engineering design, computational analysis, reliability, statistical methods, etc.
• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Engineering, working knowledge and troubleshooting insight of rotating equipment, fluid flow, heat transfer and thermodynamic principles, mechanical assemblies, basic structural, civil, and concrete.
• Experience preparing engineering documentation such as General Arrangements, P&IDs, Piping, basic Structural and Civil.
• Understanding of process control (pH, conductivity, flow, pressure, level, temperature, etc.).
• Strong leadership skills.  Results focused with demonstrated success in execution. Solid engineering acumen, experience and understanding of best practices.  
• Strong communication skills needed both internally and externally. Provides expertise to teams, both internally and externally.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries for information from operations, maintenance, and mill-level management.
• Ability to write technical documents and reports in prescribed style and format.
• Ability to effectively present information.

Computer Skills

• MS Office Suite and MS Project proficiency
• SAP and SAP Project Systems familiarity is a plus
• AutoCAD familiarity to medium level proficiency

Work Environment – Varies from an office setting to a loud, hot, and humid manufacturing environment both indoors and outdoors.  This role requires the ability to travel throughout the facility while using stairs, ladders, elevated platforms, and elevators.

Competitive healthcare benefit package and 401K match.