Base office locations: Tucker (Atlanta), Georgia, Greenville, South Carolina, or Vancouver, British Columbia. A balanced level of office versus remote working is anticipated.

Wood will consider other geographical locations across both North and South Americas, with candidates’ ability to travel as needed.

The role for a Papermaking SME is to provide Pulp and Paper process leadership during front end study work on projects of paper and paperboard manufacturing systems and has a strong influence in the overall development and execution in a project’s full life cycle. In this position, the SME provides process consulting and engineering expertise in conceptual studies, feasibility analysis, construction grade scope and estimates, detailed design, start-up, system optimization, and troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide Papermaking expertise in both external client projects and internal guidance to Wood colleagues and junior engineers
• Lead Papermaking project staff and teams in delivering world-class project delivery solutions for studies and capital projects and programs
• SME will have lead process role in studies, from conceptual through to feasibility definition
• SME will have staff consulting engineering roles in detail design phases of projects. Activities will range from design basis definition through equipment selections and detail design guidance to process and project engineers
• Roles in consulting studies are anticipated, include troubleshooting, optimization concepts, and due diligence assignments. Assignments may include Process Lead Engineer.
• Support to business development, proposals, and sales teams is anticipated, leveraging one’s expertise and network relationships.
• Lead with Wood’s health, safety, security, and environmental procedures and intervene with appropriate action
• Business travel is expected for SME roles, and amount will vary with assignments. Full time secondment roles are not expected
• As a senior consulting engineer, mentoring of younger staff is critical for expertise and knowledge growth in Wood’s capabilities in the FI sector

Skills/Qualifications:

• BS degree or higher in engineering with a preference for Pulp and Paper Science, Mechanical, or Chemical disciplines
• Minimum of twenty (20) years in the Pulp and Paper Industry, manufacturing or consulting engineering roles preferred.
• Extensive Papermaking machine equipment, systems design, operations knowledge, and experience as the basis of SME role. Focus is on packaging grades but includes the range of paper and specialties products. Topic areas include stock preparation, including recycle fiber processing, through machine winder
• Strong network and relationships in the Pulp & Paper Industry
• Passion for safety and environmental stewardship in all that you do
• Experience in supporting roles of business development and sales is a strong plus
• Experience should include proven examples of the candidate’s ability to lead teams in process consulting and engineering activities that deliver safe, quality projects within contractual obligations both on time and within budget
• Comfortable and proficient in communicating in both written and verbal forms with client’s senior and project management, client operations and project staff, internal engineers and designers, vendors, construction staff, and the like
• Preference to have process simulation skills and familiarity with common software tools
• Proficient with Microsoft 365 suite of apps