Jobs at Packaging Corporation of America

Provides technical leadership and support across multiple paper manufacturing sites. Improves processes, efficiency, quality, and technology adoption through controls expertise, PLC and drive systems, capital projects, training, planning, and troubleshooting. Leads installations and rebuilds while developing specifications and recommendations. Requires extensive controls or manufacturing experience, at least five years of papermill experience, and travel up to 80% within the United States.

Supports applications, OSIsoft PI/PARCView data historians, SQL Server databases, and interfaces between industrial control and business networks across ten paper mills. Responsibilities include managing historian points and interfaces, database development, application support, requirements gathering, troubleshooting, and collaboration with internal and external customers. The role may also involve software and web development using .NET technologies, JavaScript, and related frameworks, with occasional project-based travel.

Developmental two-year rotational engineering program in a corrugated box plant. The role provides hands-on training across maintenance and production, leads process optimization and capital projects, improves equipment reliability, reduces scrap and downtime, and supports plant operations. Engineers collaborate with plant leadership and operators while completing technical training and developing a long-term career path in production or maintenance leadership.

Oversee and support DCS configuration, hardware installation, control tuning, upgrades, cybersecurity, lifecycle management, and process optimization across manufacturing mills. Provide technical guidance, training, audits, reliability improvements, capital project support, and best-practice coordination among mill, corporate technology, IT, operations, and controls teams. The role requires extensive experience with industrial control platforms, instrumentation, project management, and system modernization, with travel as needed.

Develop and support applications used by eight paper mills across the United States. Build and maintain .NET applications and SQL Server databases, including queries, stored procedures, functions, and views. Collaborate with internal and external customers, gather requirements, solve problems independently, and work effectively in a fast-paced industrial environment. Some project-based travel is required.

Provides technical leadership for manufacturing improvement initiatives, capital and maintenance projects, cost reduction, and production quality enhancement. Responsibilities include mechanical design, AutoCAD drafting, project scoping and budgeting, contractor coordination, safety oversight, troubleshooting, and maintaining project schedules and budgets. The role requires extensive travel across the lower 48 states and collaboration with manufacturing teams, consultants, utilities, and authorities.

Leads mechanical engineering and capital projects for manufacturing plants and papermills. Responsibilities include developing project scopes and budgets, preparing AutoCAD drawings, managing construction and contractors, troubleshooting equipment and production issues, supervising engineering teams, and delivering projects from concept through completion. The role requires extensive travel, strong engineering judgment, and collaboration with plant personnel and vendors.

Administers commercial contracts and legal documentation, including reviewing routine agreements, coordinating legal review and execution, maintaining contract records and critical dates, supporting templates and records retention, and providing administrative and project support to the Commercial Legal Department. Serves as a liaison with internal stakeholders, external parties, and IT while handling confidential information and supporting travel and expense processes.

Supports corporate tax compliance, audits, tax filings, exemption certificate review, tax license maintenance, apportionment workpapers, incentive filings, and tax research. Performs data analytics and book-to-tax calculations using Excel, Corptax, and CertCapture while coordinating with internal teams, manufacturing facilities, tax authorities, and outside firms.

Supports month-end close activities, including journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, learns Oracle ERP and Oracle ARC, analyzes data and processes, completes related accounting tasks, and presents project results to management.

Designs, configures, maintains, and troubleshoots enterprise network infrastructure across corporate and manufacturing environments. Responsibilities include managing switches, routers, firewalls, wireless systems, SD-WAN, cabling, and network security; resolving complex escalations; maintaining documentation and topology diagrams; supporting change management; installing equipment; and traveling to company sites. The role requires advanced networking expertise, Python automation, Windows and Linux proficiency, physical work in industrial environments, and occasional extended hours for critical incidents.

Supports business-critical applications across manufacturing facilities by troubleshooting application, process, and data issues; researching transactions with SQL; working directly with end users; testing enhancements and updates; resolving root causes; and maintaining support documentation. Applications include order processing, scheduling, shipping, invoicing, inventory, payroll, purchasing, accounts payable, and manufacturing systems.

Supports financial and risk-based audit engagements through interviews, document reviews, data analysis, workpaper preparation, and audit findings documentation. Assists with presenting recommendations to management, maintains audit methodology standards, collaborates with audit clients, and participates in fieldwork at operational sites. The hybrid internship is designed for students exploring internal audit, risk management, and corporate finance.

Electrical Engineer supporting paper mill electrical reliability, project execution, or process control. Responsibilities include troubleshooting electrical systems, developing maintenance programs, coordinating projects and contractors, programming and improving PLC and control systems, analyzing equipment performance, and supporting outages, startups, process improvements, and capital projects.

Electrical engineering co-op supporting reliability, project engineering, or process control work at paper mills. Responsibilities include troubleshooting electrical and equipment issues, preventive maintenance, project planning and commissioning, documentation updates, control system audits, loop checks, data analysis, and coordination with operations, maintenance, contractors, and engineers.

Mechanical engineering co-op/intern supporting mechanical reliability and project engineering at paper mills. Responsibilities include predictive and preventive maintenance, vibration analysis, lubrication, optical alignment, root cause failure analysis, data analysis, process optimization, troubleshooting, equipment reliability, capital project planning, estimating, engineering design, contractor oversight, and project coordination.

The Mechanical Engineer will serve as either a Mechanical Reliability Engineer or Mechanical Project Engineer. Responsibilities include supporting maintenance and operations, improving preventive and predictive maintenance programs, troubleshooting equipment, managing outages, conducting root cause analyses, and coordinating capital projects. Project duties include developing designs, estimates, specifications, schedules, and startup plans while managing contractors, costs, timelines, and construction activities. The role requires collaboration across engineering, maintenance, operations, purchasing, and suppliers.