Safety Manager- Madison

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified individuals to consider for a Safety Manager opportunity at our Madison, GA facility. This role will provide safety leadership and strategic direction to the facility through the application of our Principle Based Management™ Framework. The Safety Manager will drive safety excellence and performance improvement through real culture change, effective and sustainable management systems, and ensuring leaders and employees are trained and equipped to manage safety. The role reports directly to the Plant Manager, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Division Safety and Health Manager.

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) and ensure ownership resides with the appropriate roles within the organization.
• Ensure facility risk profile is addressed through the 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, and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Safety leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Experience interpreting and managing to OSHA, state, and local safety and compliance standards

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in safety, Industrial Hygiene, or Engineering.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) 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 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 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 here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

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