New 
Product Developer - Retail Angel Soft Bath Tissue
 Georgia Pacific | |
life insurance, parental leave
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 United States, Wisconsin, Neenah | |
 Mar 19, 2025 | |
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Your Job
Are you passionate about exploring new ideas and breaking through conventional norms? At Georgia-Pacific, we share your enthusiasm for pushing boundaries and embracing creative solutions. We constantly challenge the status quo, take calculated risks, and strive to improve the products we make. We are seeking a Product Developer - Retail Tissue to help us extend an ideal balance of softness & strength(R) in our Angel Soft(R) bath tissue products at our Technical Center in Neenah, Wisconsin. Our product developers represent the needs and desires of our consumers to design, manufacture, and deliver advantaged products. As a product developer, you will have the unique opportunity to deepen your technical expertise in product design, leverage your creativity to tackle challenging problems, and apply a consumer-centric lens to delivering innovation. Our Team The Georgia-Pacific Angel Soft(R) retail bath tissue product development team leads the technical development of our Angel Soft(R) bath tissue products. We are entrepreneurs who innovate daily and collaborate cross-functionally to design products and execute projects that create value for our consumers, customers, communities, and company. We value lifelong learners who want to contribute and grow with us. This position is located at the Neenah Technical Center (NTC), the central site for research, development, and lab services for Georgia-Pacific's North American Consumer Products business. What You Will Do * Collaboration: Work with other product developers, business stakeholders, consumer research, quality, operations, and our technology platforms to drive year-over-year product, performance, and cost improvements. * Consumer Focus: Connect consumer and market needs to product performance to develop and test alternatives and set technical specifications on product design. * Design and Experimentation: Design, experiment, evaluate, and execute alternatives to test new product designs and hypotheses, including leading product trials on our pilot and production manufacturing equipment. Analyze data sets using advanced statistical methods and data analysis tools to support strategic decision-making. * Product Support: Provide technical support on product specifications, product claims, data substantiation, intellectual property, and overall product points of view to our business teams and other capability partners. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) * Bachelor's degree or higher in paper science, engineering or physical science or at least 3 years of product development experience in paper products. * Experience working in an R&D, product development, OR manufacturing environment independently leading technical projects or experiments, product development activities, and scaling up to commercial feasibility. * Technical knowledge of papermaking and converting. * Able and willing to travel an average of 25%. What Will Put You Ahead * Advanced degree in paper science, engineering, or physical science * Experience in consumer products R&D * Experience in tissue or towel paper manufacturing or paper products R&D * Experience in project management 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 [1] here. Who We Are At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our [2] 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 [3] here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click [4] here, [5] aqui, or [6] tu). #LI-BMW References Visible links 1. https://jobs.kochcareers.com/pages/culture 2. https://www.kochind.com/about/business-philosophy 3. https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf 4. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_English.pdf 5. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_Spanish.pdf 6. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_Polish.pdf | |