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# Area Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Georgia-Pacific
- **Location:** Toledo, OR, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Reliability Engineering
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18935048/Area-Reliability-Engineer-Oregon-Toledo

## About the Role

* Experience working in a paper, chemicals, manufacturing or utility operations environment
 * Experience leading/participating in Root Cause Analysis (RCA/RCFA) efforts
 * Experience analyzing operating data to help develop asset strategies or process improvements

What Will Put You Ahead

 * Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering
 * Specific experience in paper machine operations
 * Experience leading people and teams
 * Experience with PI Historian or PARCview
 * Experience with reliability-based maintenance and operations

## Description

* Promote the growth of our culture by utilizing our mental models in interactions with mill team members, GP team members, vendors, and visitors
 * Assist in connecting operators to overall long-term vision as well as business unit metrics
 * Coordinate/Facilitate the departments machine outage preparation and execution meetings
 * Develop and lead equipment reliability improvement initiatives
 * Document and close the loop on troubleshooting activities, improvement ideas, operating procedural changes, change of work practices, and training
 * Analyze and communicate key reliability measures and suggest new measures as needed (to include updating the Asset Availability Database)
 * Lead/participate in the RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis), ASI (Asset Strategy Improvements) and other processes designed to identify and eliminate operational and equipment problems
 * Help drive RCFA recommendations to completion
 * Coordinate handoffs to the Reliability Engineering group
 * Work closely with the Engineers, Capability Leaders, and operators to build skill and capabilities of operators