TAPPI Industry Career Center: Sappi Seeks a Sr. Process Engineer

The Process Engineer will provide oversight and troubleshooting support to the dissolving wood pulp and kraft pulp production business including utilities and recovery, and help maintain a safe, environmentally sound, and efficient operation to achieve maximum quality production at minimum cost.

Responsibilities and Duties

Provide Process Engineer support to the Pulp Business Group including:

• Assure and contribute to a safe work environment.
• Ensure that all environmental commitments are stricttly adhered to.
• Support day to day operations.
• Support and assure continued Environmental, Health/Safety, and Quality ISO certification compliance.
• Develop, execute, evaluate and report on trials for product development, process improvement, and product enhancement
• Provide data analysis to support customer complaint evaluations, monthly and quarterly reports.
• Support process troubleshooting and optimization efforts.
• Make recommendations for LSS efforts and process improvements. Lead LSS teams.
• Provide process improvement training to operations personnel.
• Support all areas of the Pulp Business including wood room, fiberline, bleach plant, pulp dryer, recovery, recausticizing and plant utilities.

Requirements

• A minimum of bachelors in engineering is required.  BS in Chemical Engineering or Pulp and Paper Science preferred. 
• Prior pulp experience preferred.
• Computer knowledge – background in Microsoft suite, Proficy, etc... strongly preferred.
• Understanding of human relations and supervision in an organized labor environment.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results through people
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma and/or dissolving pulp a plus.

Sappi North America is a division of Sappi Limited, a global company headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with manufacturing operations on four continents in nine countries with sales offices in 50 countries. The Cloquet Mill, located on the banks of the St. Louis River, produces some of the highest quality heavyweight web and sheet fed products in the world. The original mill opened in 1898 and has undergone a variety of changes and improvements over the years, most-recently (2013) to convert the pulp mill into a producer of Verve, a dissolving wood pulp used primarily for the textile markets. With the conversion, the pulp mill is now able to swing between dissolving wood pulp and Kraft pulp based on market needs. With a focus on responsible and sustainable operations, the Cloquet Mill is focused on energy savings improvements which have led to local, state, and national environmental recognition.

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