**Job Description**

**Position Title** **:**

**Capital Projects Engineer**

**Pay Rate** :

$100,000 $137,000

_Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range._

_Variable pay may provide additional opportunities for financial awards. This job is eligible to participate in IP’s short –term incentive plan._

**Category/Shift** :

Salaried Full-Time

**Physical Location** :

601 County Road 78

Selma, AL. 36703

**The Job You Will Perform:**

+ Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results

+ Identify and implement capital solutions to improve safety, reliability, and/or quality issues

+ Accountable to deliver success from project development through project implementation

+ Engage project customers including business unit and other mill leaders throughout the process to ensure department and mill objectives are addressed and to deliver world class results

+ Meet and/or exceed financial and timeline objectives, including start-up and operation at or above project goals

+ Manage multiple projects at any given time

+ Coordinate project execution and develop strong relationships with regional engineering organization (REO) staff engineers

+ Approve design for all engineering phases throughout capital project process

+ Review bid proposals and planned work spending to ensure maximum value is achieved

+ Support development and execution of multi-year capital plan, as well as ensuring progress vs. plan for timely project completion

+ Implement and improve systems necessary to sustain world class capital project processes (e.g. GMS, IP Project Delivery Process, Design for Reliability Process)

+ Support 5S program through the lens of project implementation, including design features to support same

+ Identify and implement cost reduction strategies that reduce the cost of ownership

+ Coordinate with other disciplines to ensure an integrated design that meets the project requirements

+ Perform troubleshooting and/or de-bottlenecking of existing facilities to optimize production

+ Develop or alter standard project specifications to meet specific project requirements

+ Review of design and engineering data (drawings and other documents) to verify completeness and accuracy

+ Analyze designs for efficiency of construction, use of materials, integrity and practicality of design

+ Review certain vendor / fabricator quotations, shop drawings, and related submittals

+ Perform the necessary field work to obtain accurate information for the design

+ Provide construction and startup assistance

+ Willing to work weekends and extra hours on shutdowns to meet project goals

+ Fulfill weekend duty team leadership role for Maintenance or assigned Business Units

**The Skills You Will Bring:**

+ Five (5) years post college experience required with project engineering experience preferred.

+ Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil) or construction management is required; equivalent practical experience managing capital projects may be considered.

+ Supervisory experience is preferred with preference given to candidates with experience managing a project/maintenance engineering team.

+ Experience working in a fully integrated paper mill is a plus.

**Job Identification** 2002908

**Job Schedule** Full time