Job Description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is looking for you to join the Wauna Paper Mill team at our Clatskanie, Oregon facility as an Environmental Engineer. In this role, you'll create long-term value by identifying and mitigating risks while driving process improvements and striving for environmental excellence. You will play a key role in developing, implementing, and managing the facility's environmental air compliance programs and management systems. You'll be supported by a local mill Environmental team as well as a cross-media regional support group, regularly collaborating with colleagues at the Camas, WA and Halsey, OR facilities.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Wauna Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 900 employees, Wauna strives to lead the tissue, towel and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $150 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do

• Use technology enablers and enterprise best practices to transform, automate, and standardize air emissions and environmental programs for greater resilience, consistency, verifiability, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Manage air emissions compliance end-to-end: monitor, analyze, document, and report emissions data; ensure timely regulatory submissions (e.g., Title V) and adherence to federal, state, and local requirements.
• Identify permitting requirements and reporting: assist to prepare, submit, and maintain permits, coordinate with regulatory agencies, and streamline workflows using common enterprise tools.
• Maintain and refine compliance programs and day-to-day permit obligations (data collection, report generation, and submissions), including air emission inventories and similar requirements.
• Deploy and use mobile inspections and other digital tools to support inspections, compliance verification, sampling, stack testing, emissions inventories, and operational oversight.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, and engineering to design, implement, and optimize air pollution controls (scrubbers, filters, baghouses), identify leading indicators, and drive corrective actions and continuous improvement.
• Provide regulatory guidance and tactical compliance support consistent with Stewardship & Compliance principles and Principle Based Management™; maintain an evergreen point of view on environmental risks, priorities, and strategic plans.
• Build and sustain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners, and regulatory agencies; serve as the primary contact during inspections, audits, and agency coordination.
• Oversee contractor work on environmental and construction projects, evaluate environmental risks, and partner across the enterprise to implement mitigation, training, and improvement opportunities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Engineering experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• Environmental engineering experience.
• CEMS/DAS experience
• Pulp & Paper Experience
• Experience in leading federal, state, and local air quality regulations (e.g., Clean Air Act, NESHAP, MACT, Title V permits).

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.

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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

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