Facility Safety Manager

Georgia-Pacific - Gurdon, AR

Full-time

Gurdon, AR

Wood Product Manufacturing

About the position

Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified contribution-motivated individuals to consider for a Facility Safety Manager opportunity at our plywood mill in Gurdon, AR. This role will provide safety leadership and strategic direction to the facility through the application of our Principle Based Management ™ Framework. The Facility 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. In this position, you will provide leadership and direction in establishing and achieving a meaningful safety vision and effective strategies through management commitment and employee ownership. You will lead the development and use of risk assessment methods/systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards, driving and assisting with the mitigation of identified gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities. Additionally, you will actively manage all aspects of compliance (e.g., OSHA, company standards) and ensure ownership resides with the appropriate roles within the organization. You will ensure the facility risk profile is addressed through the development and 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), and drive flawless execution, assessment, and improvement of critical safe work practices. Supporting 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) will also be part of your responsibilities. Furthermore, you will identify safety development and training needs and drive continuous improvement using tools and activities including self-assessments and audit processes, incident/near miss investigations, metrics and targets, and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent targets.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 tools and activities including self-assessments and audit processes, incident/near miss investigations, metrics and targets, and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent targets.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher.
• Safety leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or Engineering.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification.
• Experience in leading culture change and developing/implementing safety programs.