Laboratory Technician

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products Division is seeking a Lab Technician for our Effluent Treatment Plant in our Muskogee Paper Mill in Muskogee, Oklahoma. In this role you will monitor and analyze water treatment processes to ensure compliance with environmental regulations and company standards. Your work would help maintain the efficiency and effectiveness of the effluent treatment system, contributing to the sustainability efforts of the organization. This position follows a 12-hour rotating schedule of day and night shifts and may require coverage of additional shifts as business needs require.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Muskogee Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 750 employees, across more than 600 acres, Muskogee strives to lead the tissue, towel, and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $50 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do

• Operate in the waste treatment plant - including sludge processing and dewatering equipment, clarifiers, aeration basins, and RPW/wastewater flow paths - taking ownership for safe, compliant, and efficient plant performance beyond routine lab tasks.
• Control and optimize process flows and equipment: monitor control panels/SCADA, interpret meter readings and instrumentation, manually or remotely adjust valves, and start/stop pumps to regulate filtering, settling, aeration, and sludge dewatering operations.
• Collect representative samples across the treatment train (influent, process stages, sludge, discharge) following chain-of-custody and safety protocols, and connect lab results directly to operational adjustments and process decisions.
• Perform routine chemical and biological analyses (pH, DO, BOD/COD, TSS, nutrients, microbial assays, etc.) using field and bench instruments (pH/DO probes, spectrophotometers, balances, colorimetric devices), and ensure proper sample handling, preservation, and error-proofing of results.
• Translate analytical data into operational actions: determine load requirements, recommend polymer dosing, aeration setpoints, sludge wasting rates, and other control changes to maintain permit compliance and optimize throughput.
• Operate plant support equipment (forklift, portable pumps, conveyors, centrifuges/belt presses where applicable) and perform light equipment maintenance-routine inspections, lubrication, preventive maintenance, basic troubleshooting-escalating complex repairs to maintenance teams.
• Maintain QA/QC and calibration discipline: execute and document calibrations, follow QA/QC procedures and proficiency tests, validate methods as required, and promptly escalate and document any permit exceedances or excursions.
• Accurately record all analytical results, calculations, metadata, and process actions in lab notebooks, LIMS, and operational logs; prepare timely reports summarizing trends, excursions, and recommended corrective actions for operations and environmental stakeholders.
• Demonstrate influential leadership and cross-functional collaboration: mentor teammates, promote Principle Based Management (PBM) and safe work practices, support root-cause investigations and continuous improvement initiatives, and coordinate with vendors/parts management to maintain plant reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working in a laboratory environment.
• Experience with mechanical troubleshooting in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Experience applying environmental regulations and laboratory safety practices.
• Willing to work a 12-hour rotating schedule of day and night shifts and additional shift coverage as needed.

What Will Put You Ahead

• An associate degree or higher in Chemistry, Environmental Science, or a related field
• Class D Wastewater operator certification

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

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Who We Are

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.

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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 here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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