Description

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is among the world's leading manufacturers of bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, office papers, cellulose, specialty fibers, nonwoven fabrics, building products and related chemicals.

We are adding members to support our Collaboration and Support Center (CSC) Team based in west midtown Atlanta, GA. This is a remote position with 25% travel to the CSC and operating facilities. The CSC team partners with operating facilities to provide technology in the form of analytics and remote monitoring and diagnosis to anticipate and solve problems across our 140 manufacturing sites across North America. The team uses the best available technology with an enterprise-wide approach and is primarily focused in the areas of Asset Health, Process Optimization, Computer Vision, and Automation. Georgia Pacific is in search of a highly entrepreneurial experienced manufacturing IT/OT candidate to lead the development and execution of computer vision and digital services to operations.

As a member of the team, the vision systems engineer works within many areas of the company including application conceptualization, Data Science, IT and Automation. This is a dynamic role that takes opportunities in Georgia Pacific’s manufacturing facilities, develops innovative computer vision solutions, tests them in a lab environment, and then rolls those proven solutions across the enterprise. The vision systems engineer will also perform field service support as required for the solutions they implement. This role will report to CSC Operations.

What You Will Do In Your Role

• Work with operations and manufacturing leaders, engineers, and vendors to determine optimal solutions within the computer vision domain.
• Determine proper camera parameters, lighting, and filters and understand their impact on quality.
• Build reliability into the existing service areas through sensor health, IO, server health, data collection, data flows that yield highly reliable remote services.
• Monitor advancements in the marketplace and facilitate decisions related to buy vs build.
• Work closely with the IT team to ensure proper access, authentication, and usage of IT/OT assets.
• Work with enterprise architecture team to establish technical standards that facilitate scaling products across like assets and facilities quickly.
• Ensure IT/OT monitoring and computer vision technologies are functioning in an efficient and effective way on a 24/7 basis across operating facilities.
• Ensure that technologies and architectures are functionally, technically, and commercially advantaged.
• Maintain an IT/OT development and deployment backlog/roadmap/schedule by facility and facilitate on time delivery as services are scaled to new sites.
• Influence cross-functional teams.
• Define and establish data and process governance in collaboration with other SMEs.
• Respectfully challenge at all levels of the organization.
• Travel up to 25% of the time.

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements:

• Experience (Modeling, Configuration and/or Application) working with computer vision libraries (OpenCV, others) and IP cameras using Python
• Experience working with machine vision cameras in manufacturing facilities (Cognex, SICK, Basler (GigE))

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a technical field
• Experience building computer visions systems using Python
• Deep Learning Computer Vision (TensorFlow or Pytorch) experience
• Thermal/IR image processing experience
• Experience with Unix and parallel processing
• Client/Server HMI/SCADA systems and historians (GE, Wonderware, Rockwell FactoryTalk View, Ignition, OSI PI, Highbyte etc.)
• Experience in managing large, complex hardware/software development projects
• IT Communication architectures (e.g., LAN, Wireless LAN, LTE/CBRS, LP-WAN, VPN, etc.)
• System integration from concept to production
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Experience working in a consultative and cooperative manner with multiple stakeholders, such as engineers, data scientist, developers, and architects.
• Experience working with loT data
• Experience with containerization

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.

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.

For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000- $130,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Equal Opportunity Employer.
Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.
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