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Safety Manager

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Georgia, Warrenton
Nov 07, 2024
Your Job

[1] Georgia-Pacific has an immediate opening for a Safety Manager at our Warrenton, Georgia Lumber facility. The Safety Manager will provide safety leadership and strategic direction to the facility, applying the [2] Principle Based Management Framework and Our Values. This role is crucial in creating real value for the organization by proactively identifying and mitigating risks. You will develop and align facility safety strategies with the company's and division's safety vision and objectives. By driving safety excellence and fostering a culture of continuous improvement through effective, sustainable management systems, you will ensure that leaders and employees are well-trained and equipped to manage safety. The Safety Manager reports directly to the Facility Manager and maintains a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Division Safety Manager.

Our Team

Our Warrenton facility is a new state-of-the art lumber mill that opened in the Fall of 2019. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high efficiency and technologically advanced lumber mill. GP Warrenton produces Southern Pine dimension lumber, the workhorse of the building industry. It is an affordable, strong, durable softwood that is excellent for pressure treating, light frame construction, general utility framing, studs, pallets, crafting, and floor and roof trusses. Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace. Warrenton is approximately 45 miles West of Augusta, GA and 110 miles East of Atlanta, GA.

What You Will Do

* Provide leadership and direction in establishing and achieving a meaningful safety vision and effective strategies through management commitment and employee ownership
* Lead the development and use of risk assessment methods/systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards. Drive and assist with the mitigation of identified gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities
* Actively manage all aspects of compliance (e.g., OSHA, company standards). Ensure ownership resides with the appropriate roles within the organization
* Ensure facility risk profile is addressed through development/implementation of key controls.
* Recommend and facilitate engineering/design changes to eliminate or reduce risk (e.g., machine guarding, ergonomics, traffic, fire/explosion, noise, upset conditions)
* Drive flawless execution, assessment, and improvement of critical safe work practices
* Support all phases of capital and major expense projects to ensure safe execution (e.g., design review, contractor selection/orientation/auditing, work plans/permits, pre-startup review)
* Identify safety development and training needs
* Drive continuous improvement using tool and activities, including self-assessments and audit processes; incident/near miss investigations; metrics and targets (leading and lagging indicators); and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

* Three (3) or more years of Safety leadership experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment

What Will Put You Ahead

* Bachelor's degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or Engineering
* Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or Associate Safety Professional (ASP) certification
* Experience in leading culture change and developing/implementing management systems

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 [3] here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day -to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our [4] 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 [5] here for additional information.

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